How YOU can help the FCC - reading response

The Fight for the Future of Media lays out "5 questions you (the public) can help the FCC Answer. These questions assume, although, that the big business interests and political policy-makers that currently control the airwaves are the ones that should control the airwaves.
Using this chapter as a reference, please answer these revised questions in a blog entry.

1. Do broadcasters use radio and television to quickly and effectively respond to the local communities needs and interests? Give examples to support your answer.

2. Are there certain kinds of local programming (Public Media Values) that should be available, but are not being provided by broadcasters? what could some examples of these be?

3. What could the Federal Communication Commission do to promote localism in broadcasting? Explain three of these examples of public-service-oriented projects that are already in process across the US.

extras:
What Stanford professor and lawyer that we have discussed before is mentioned in this essay? What organization is he the founder of?

What is the "spectrum" that the authors refer to?

for 10-27 read p219 Wirelessing the World

LINKS:
FCC and Smart Radios
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