Press Releases

More than 150 citizens crowded the sidewalks outside Federal Communications Commission headquarters in a Halloween-morning rally against media consolidation.

WASHINGTON -- A key House Subcommittee will look into the devastating impact of new postal rate hikes on independent publications, including some of the country's most important political journals.

WASHINGTON -- Local citizens concerned about media consolidation will rally outside of Federal Communications Commission headquarters during the agency's hearing on localism on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

WASHINGTON -- In testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Free Press Research Director S. Derek Turner will call on lawmakers to address media consolidation's devastating impact on diverse and local radio ownership.

WASHINGTON -- Late Wednesday night, the Federal Communications Commission announced that its next hearing on localism will be on Oct. 31 at FCC headquarters in Washington, D.C. The hearing's belated announcement -- just five business days before the event -- follows reports that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is rushing to eliminate longstanding media ownership limits before the end of the year.

WASHINGTON -- Free Press, Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union filed thousands of pages of comments Monday night blasting the Federal Communications Commission for its "inconsistent, incompetent and incoherent" attempts to skew official research in support of Chairman Kevin Martin's dubious but foregone conclusions about media consolidation.

WASHINGTON -- Comcast, the nation's largest cable company and second-largest Internet service provider, is actively interfering with its users' ability to access legal content through content-sharing technologies like BitTorrent. The Associated Press calls Comcast's interference "the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider."

WASHINGTON -- The <a href="http://www.stopbigmedia.com">StopBigMedia.com</a> Coalition is shocked and dismayed over news that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is secretly pushing for a vote to relax media ownership rules by Dec. 18.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission today punished broadcasters for airing commentary by pundit Armstrong Williams without disclosing that he was on the government payroll.

WASHINGTON -- Today, the presidents of NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Christian Coalition co-authored a <i>Washington Post</i> op-ed calling on Congress to address the censorship policies of phone companies like Verizon and AT&T. Last month, Verizon arbitrarily banned text messages from NARAL, deeming the lawful political speech too "controversial and unsavory" to send.