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COMMON CAUSE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE               CONTACT:  Trevor FitzGibbon or

May 19, 2003                                     Carlyn Foster, Jessica Smith, Fenton Communications


MEDIA ADVISORY

CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO DELAY FCC VOTE ON MEDIA CONSOLIDATION

 

Phone Briefing for Political, Media and Entertainment Reporters  

Featuring R.E.M.’s Mike Mills

Wednesday May 21st at 3:00 pm (EDT)

 

The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote June 2nd on an unprecedented relaxation of its long-time ownership restriction rules—a vote that will determine the future of freedom of speech and impact American democracy.  Common Cause and MoveOn.org are launching a major campaign to stop the FCC from increasing monopoly control over the nation’s airwaves.

 

You are invited to a phone briefing on this crucial issue for media and entertainment writers on Wednesday, May 21st, at 3 PM hosted by Common Cause and Moveon.Org.

 

WHAT:            Teleconference

WHEN:            Wednesday, May 21st

                        3:00 PM, EST

 

PARTICIPANTS

 

Mike Mills,  artist with R.E.M.

Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause

Robert McChesney, president of Free Press, and Professor of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jenny Toomey, executive director of the Future of Music Coalition

 

 

The campaign is mobilizing to demand that the FCC delay the June 2nd vote to allow a public debate on the consequences of this decision.

“Relaxing or eliminating the ownership rules will damage our democracy,” said Ms. Pingree, President of Common Cause. “Access to independent information will dwindle. And a few huge media companies are likely to ignore local news and their public responsibility.”

 

Common Cause is a 200,000-member organization that works for open, accountable government and the right of all citizens to be involved in shaping the nation’s public policies. Moveon.org is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation with a network of more than 2,000,000 online activists.

 

Background information on the FCC’s proposed rules and Common Cause’s campaign against consolidation can be viewed at Common Cause’s website, www.commoncause.org.

 

Trevor S. FitzGibbon
Sr. Account Executive

FENTON | Communications

 

 

 

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