WASHINGTON -- In response to the FCC's decision to reschedule its vote on the merger of AT&T and Bell South, Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott made the following statement:

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department's Antitrust Division today signed off on the $78 billion union of AT&T and BellSouth, placing no conditions on one of the largest mergers in U.S. history. The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on the deal at a meeting on Thursday.

MADISON, WIS. – The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) today rebutted claims made about its April 2006 report, Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed – which sparked an ongoing investigation by the Federal Communications Commission into the misuse of video news releases, or VNRs, by local television stations.

LOS ANGELES -- A standing-room only crowd of more than 500 Angelenos packed into USC's Davidson Conference Center today to speak out against media consolidation.

A broad-based coalition of local and national groups is urging the public to turn out for the Federal Communications Commission's first hearing on sweeping changes to the nation's ownership rules. The FCC public hearing will take place in two parts at two separate locations on Tuesday, October 3: Part 1 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. University of Southern California Davidson Conference Center

LOS ANGELES -- On Oct. 3 in Los Angeles, all five Federal Communications Commissioners will meet face-to-face with the public to discuss sweeping changes to the nation's media ownership rules.

WASHINGTON - Two Federal Communications Commissioners and a group of civil rights leaders today praised a new Free Press study for shining a light on the lack of female and minority-owned television stations in the United States.

WASHINGTON - As the Federal Communications Commission considers sweeping changes to the nation's media landscape, Free Press today released a new report on female and minority media ownership that shows the consequences of further consolidation.

A Federal Communications Commission study on the negative impacts of radio consolidation came to light Monday after being buried at the agency for at least two years. This was the second secret FCC study on media ownership to surface in as many weeks.

WASHINGTON -- Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell buried a federal study that showed media consolidation is harmful to local news reporting. The 2004 report found that locally owned stations produced five minutes more local news coverage in a half-hour newscast than their consolidated competitors.