New state laws and FCC regulations have been detrimental to PEG access centers and programming across the country. Congress held a hearing to assess the damage. And guest commentator Megan Tady wants our new president to address the digital divide and work to make high-speed broadband accessible to everyone.

There are over a million wireless microphones in use across the country. But most of them are illegal and squatting on airwaves that could be used for low-cost Internet access. And Congress helps to protect Internet Radio.

Members of the Wireless Innovation Alliance were on Capitol Hill to show their support for open, unlicensed white spaces to bring high-speed broadband to millions of Americans. And Media Access Project and Free Press fight against further media consolidation in South Bend, Indiana.

A bill moving through Congress would allow the Department of Justice to bring civil suits against alleged copyright infringers at the expense of the taxpayers. And Jon Bartholomew discusses the Common Cause "Media Reform Plan."

Journalists covering the Republican National Convention were held at gunpoint during pre-emptive “security” raids, swept up in mass arrests with protesters, detained for several hours to several days, had their equipment confiscated, and were roughed up by police. Now journalists and citizens of St. Paul are demanding all charges be dropped.

In nearly 50 cities and towns across the country, media reform activists visited their representatives in their home district offices to urge them to veto the FCC’s media ownership rules. And in Davis, Calif., KDRT-LP won its dispute with the FCC to remain on the air after a big commercial station encroached on their frequency.

The courts have ruled on some important issues involving copyrights of recorded music and TV programs. And Internet radio businesses are in danger of shutting down because of high royalty fees.

To raise healthy, creative, thinking children, we need to allow them to grow in a non-commercialized culture. And as the number of foreign news bureaus decreases, Americans are receiving an increasingly distorted view of the world.

Why do the corporate media have a lock on all new channels that will emerge from the digital TV conversion? And a new Massachusetts law promises to bring broadband to the entire state.

The FCC voted to punish Comcast for blocking users’ access to the Internet. And the People’s Production House arms up-and-coming journalists with the skills they need to create media.