Media Policy Affects You - Start Affecting It

November 14.2005 - November 15.2005
6:00 p.m.
Pack Library's Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC

Free Press policy director Ben Scott will discuss the growing media reform movement and the changing landscape of media policy in Congress and the FCC. Issues include:

-Media consolidation and corporate ownership.
-The future of grassroots independent media.
-The historic shift from broadcast media to Internet-based media.
-Ensuring affordable broadband Internet service.
-Revisiting the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

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