WISPIRG email asking people to send letters
Dear FCC:
Please prevent big media from getting any bigger and instead encourage a more diverse, independent and minority ownership.
The media is in many ways the lifeblood of a culture--i.e. entertainment, news, music, etc. Though the state of Newspapers and other media outlets seems sickly and weak, they are some of the last remaining bastions of reference and identity. Many people fear that this sense of local identity will be watered down or completely lost when certain outlets of local information no longer remain local. It's a difficult thing to imagine--big media taking over the local media outlets--because it is impossible overlook events such as these as forlorn augurs of future drift, the things to come. Give us some promising bellwether.
How are we to look to giant buildings to tell us what's happening under our feet?
To ask far off companies to give us coverage and information that isn't far off?
To vest our communities without vested interests?
Please weigh carefully what you may never be able to take back.
Sincerely,
Matthew Reiland
Please prevent big media from getting any bigger and instead encourage a more diverse, independent and minority ownership.
The media is in many ways the lifeblood of a culture--i.e. entertainment, news, music, etc. Though the state of Newspapers and other media outlets seems sickly and weak, they are some of the last remaining bastions of reference and identity. Many people fear that this sense of local identity will be watered down or completely lost when certain outlets of local information no longer remain local. It's a difficult thing to imagine--big media taking over the local media outlets--because it is impossible overlook events such as these as forlorn augurs of future drift, the things to come. Give us some promising bellwether.
How are we to look to giant buildings to tell us what's happening under our feet?
To ask far off companies to give us coverage and information that isn't far off?
To vest our communities without vested interests?
Please weigh carefully what you may never be able to take back.
Sincerely,
Matthew Reiland