Broadcasting
FCC apologizes to Broadcast Blues Director
04/20/2009
In the four years of making Broadcast Blues, I found that the Federal Communications Commission, the federal agency tasked with oversight of the broadcast airwaves, was completely ignoring the public. The key thread of the film surrounds the public's petitons to deny station licenses. (Most people don't know that we own the airwaves, and we can petition to have a station's license taken away.) At one point, an FCC media rep told me they do not keep track of these petitions, and had no idea when the last station's license was removed. (Not recently, obviously.)
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Broadcast Blues wins Sacramento International Film Festival!
04/14/2009
Wow, what a time. Thanks to Winston Jordan, Exec. Director of Cease Spin, and webmaster extraordinaire, we now have a blog!
And thanks to Marty Anaya and the Sacramento International Film Festival, we now have our first "Laurel." They honored us with the "Outstanding Environmental Vision" award.
"Environmental", for a movie about media, you say? Don't forget, media influences every aspect of our lives. When the media weights the few scientists who are funded by oil companies who discount climate change as being equal with the many scientists who are peer reviewed and factually back up climate change, we the people lose. The environment loses. But the broadcasters win, because it is cheap and easy to set up those kinds of arguments and pretend they are telling both sides of the story. Cheap and easy means more profits, but less credible information.
Read More...And thanks to Marty Anaya and the Sacramento International Film Festival, we now have our first "Laurel." They honored us with the "Outstanding Environmental Vision" award.
"Environmental", for a movie about media, you say? Don't forget, media influences every aspect of our lives. When the media weights the few scientists who are funded by oil companies who discount climate change as being equal with the many scientists who are peer reviewed and factually back up climate change, we the people lose. The environment loses. But the broadcasters win, because it is cheap and easy to set up those kinds of arguments and pretend they are telling both sides of the story. Cheap and easy means more profits, but less credible information.