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Thanks to each and every one of you who took the time to submit a formal proposal for the 2008 NCMR. There are a lot of great ideas and we're now in the process of reviewing everything that has been submitted.

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Average: 1.3 (16 votes)

If you live in the Washington D.C. area I’m hoping you’ll join us this November 9-11th for the 2007 Claim Democracy conference. The event marks the first time that campaign finance and election reform activists are joining ranks with media reformers to bring together these important movements.

Democracy cannot function without a robust, independent and adversarial media. It also cannot function if elections and politicians are bought and sold, votes are lost and miscounted, and the two-party system is entrenched.
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Average: 4 (5 votes)

Question of the day: Who gets to determine which text messages can be sent and received to Verizon cell phone subscribers? Verizon, or the user?

In the past, Verizon Wireless has let a number of groups use their network for text message campaigns – but last week they decided that one issue was too “unsavory” for their network. They denied NARAL Pro-Choice America’s request to use the Verizon network to let people sign up for a text message campaign. No other network provider turned down the NARAL request.
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Average: 5 (2 votes)

Does the media in your community allow for your voice to be heard? Is your news local and diverse? Are your issues and experiences reflected in your media?
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Average: 4.5 (2 votes)

Check it out! ACME just launched a re-designed web site! http://www.acmecoalition.org/

My personal favorite feature on the site is a one minute YouTube video titled, “Big Media – Shine A Light”.

The site is a great resource for anyone interested in media literacy education.

Enjoy! Mary Alice Crim

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Average: 3.9 (8 votes)

The new critically acclaimed film by the Media Education Foundation, War Made Easy, is now playing around the country.

War Made Easy, narrated by Sean Penn and featuring author and media critic Norman Solomon, offers a scathing indictment of five decades of U.S. media coverage of American-led military interventions. The film exhumes remarkable archival footage to make the case that American presidents of both parties have relied upon deceptive rhetoric and a complicit Washington press corps to win public support for successive wars.

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Average: 4.8 (12 votes)