Free Press: Stamp Out the Rate Hikes

Postal Hike to Favor Direct Mailers, Disadvantage Newspapers

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:32:32 -0700

Media Minutes: January 2, 2009

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:06:05 -0800

Media Minutes looks at five of the top stories of 2008: The FCC proceedings concerning Net Neutrality, the 700 MHz spectrum auction and white spaces; Pentagon propaganda; journalists’ arrests at the RNC; and grassroots media organizing for PEG and LPFM.

Media Minutes - (2009-01-02)

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:58:57 -0800

Media Minutes (2009-01-02)

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:50:01 -0800

Going Postal

Mon, 19 May 2008 06:53:52 -0700

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.” – A.J. Liebling

U.S. Postal Mail Rate Hikes Screw MicroPublishers -- Thanks Time Warner

Mon, 19 May 2008 06:32:10 -0700

Snip from "Going Postal," a feature by Callie Enlow in the New York Review of Magazines, on how a recent US Postal mail rate hike reportedly pushed-for by Time Warner is killing tiny 'zine publishers. (Note to the digital chirren: 'zines are like blogs on paper. They're what old people used to read before god gave us LiveJournal. Boing Boing once was one.)

Postal Rates Timeline

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:23:58 -0800

May 2006: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) submitted an omnibus proposal to increase postal rates to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC).

Time Warner Rewrites Postal Policy

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:16:43 -0800

In March 2007, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) voted for a drastic hike in postal rates for small and independent periodicals.

Supporting Publications

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:56:34 -0800

Publications that have signed the joint letter to the Postal Board of Governors.

History of Postal Rates

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:49:38 -0800

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

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