The FCC Showdown
On October 22, 2003, the FCC held a hearing on localism in Charlotte, NC. FCC chairman Michael Powell probably wished…
Policy
CPB Faces Possible Budget Cuts
President Bush’s proposed budgets for 2004 and 2005 will introduce deep cuts and radical changes for the Corporation for Public…
The Media Policy Wars
There is a tremendous and silent battle being fought these days, the effects of which could create a culture (locally,…
FCC Changes Afoot?
What do a former president of the Screen Actors Guild, the host of a long-running Harlem public access show, vice…
Screening No More
Earlier this year the Carnegie Museum announced it would close one of Pittsburgh’s oldest and most renowned screening series and…
NEA Survives Act II; Final Curtain for Jane Alexander
Conservative lawmakers lost their latest bid to kill the National Endowment for the Arts in late October as the House…