Senate Committee Rebukes FCC Senate Committee Rebukes FCC
When the Federal Communications Commission voted June 2 to remove key restrictions on media consolidation, dissident Commissioner Michael Copps warned, "This Commission's drive to...
Jun 19, 2003 / John Nichols
Making Media an Issue Making Media an Issue
MILWAUKEE -- When Democratic party activists from across Wisconsin gathered for their party's state convention last weekend, they heard speeches from three presidential candidates...
Jun 16, 2003 / John Nichols
Bill Moyers’s Presidential Address Bill Moyers’s Presidential Address
Democratic presidential candidates were handed a dream audience of 1,000 "ready-for-action" labor, civil rights, peace and economic justice campaigners at the Take Back America co...
Jun 9, 2003 / John Nichols
Standing Up to the FCC Standing Up to the FCC
Even as he condemned the 3-to-2 vote of the Federal Communications Commission to allow media conglomerates to dramatically increase their control over newspapers and radio and ...
Jun 5, 2003 / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
FCC Rejects Public Interest FCC Rejects Public Interest
Monday's 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission to remove barriers to corporate consolidation of control over the media capped a process that, even by the standards of ...
Jun 3, 2003 / John Nichols
Local Heroes Local Heroes
Eight state legislators who are making a difference.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
ALEC Meets His Match ALEC Meets His Match
Challenging the right's powerhouse.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
Taking It to the States Taking It to the States
Important battles are being waged--and won--far beyond the Beltway.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime
With the June 2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission on a series of rule changes that would dramatically reshape the nation's media landscape rapidly approaching, it is a...
May 22, 2003 / John Nichols
FCC: Public Be Damned FCC: Public Be Damned
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney are founders of the media-reform network Free Press, one of the groups named in this article.
May 15, 2003 / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney