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Sen. Kerry: Senate Win 'Great Sign for Future' In a guest post, Sen. John Kerry talks about the historic victory in the Senate to overturn the FCC’s media ownership rule changes. As you guys probably know by now, we had a great victory last night in the fight against the FCC and media...
May 16, 2008
Sen. Snowe: We Owe It to the American People In a guest post, Sen. Olympia Snowe talks about the Senate's near-unanimous vote to overturn the FCC's media ownership rule changes. Last night I and my colleagues in the Senate passed the resolution of disapproval that repeals the recent Federal...
May 16, 2008
The Senate Stands Up Against Big Media Thursday night, the Senate cast a near-unanimous vote to reverse the Federal Communication Commission's December 2007 decision to let media companies own both a major TV or radio station and a major daily newspaper in the same city. Sen. Byron Dorgan...
May 16, 2008
Historic Senate Vote Rejects FCC's Rules In a near-unanimous voice vote tonight, the Senate passed a "resolution of disapproval" that would nullify the Federal Communications Commission's latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Last December, the FCC voted to remove...
May 15, 2008
Debunking The White House's Media Ownership Myths On May 15th, on the verge of a full Senate vote on the "resolution of disapproval" that would overturn the FCC decision to gut media ownership rules, the White House released a formal "Statement of Administration Policy" defending the FCC and threatening...
May 15, 2008
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OK GO goes to Washington
The Grammy-winning band and Internet phenomenon OK GO urge Congress to protect Net Neutrality and the open Internet.
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March 17, 2008
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