Policy

Voices from Issues Past

khards — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500

What happened at AIVF over the last 30 years?

AIVF: And What it Meant to Me

khards — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500

I first became aware of AIVF when Martha Gever was editor of The Independent. I marveled at this national organization that put out each month a magazine chock full of weighty, intellectual and critical articles on film and video.

POLICY

marla — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0500

Picture if you will, Karl Rove and Karen Hughes sitting around the offices of Bush-Cheney 2004, talking strategy and shooting the breeze. Suddenly the phone rings. “Karl,” a young aide says excitedly. “I’ve got bad news for you. The Democrats have a new weapon: independent documentary films!”

The FCC Showdown

marla — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0600

On October 22, 2003, the FCC held a hearing on localism in Charlotte, NC. FCC chairman Michael Powell probably wished he’d stayed home.

CPB Faces Possible Budget Cuts

marla — Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 -0500

President Bush’s proposed budgets for 2004 and 2005 will introduce deep cuts and radical changes for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) if they pass through Congress later this year unaltered. In addition to a tighter budget, CPB would not receive advance appropriations for 2006.

The Media Policy Wars

marla — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0600

There is a tremendous and silent battle being fought these days, the effects of which could create a culture (locally, nationally, and globally) that is completely beholden to the media giants, even more so than the present.

FCC Changes Afoot?

marla — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0600

What do a former president of the Screen Actors Guild, the host of a long-running Harlem public access show, vice presidents at Fox and CBS, and Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell have in common?

Screening No More

marla — Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0600

Earlier this year the Carnegie Museum announced it would close one of Pittsburgh’s oldest and most renowned screening series and shut down the museum’s film and video department, the result of a $4 million budget cut for 2003. In addition to dropping the film and video program, Carnegie Museum is eliminating seventeen full-time and four part-time employees.

NEA Survives Act II; Final Curtain for Jane Alexander

marla — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00:00 -0600

Conservative lawmakers lost their latest bid to kill the National Endowment for the Arts in late October as the House and Senate passed an appropriations bill containing $98 million for the agency in fiscal 1998.

Beyond Broadcast Interviews: Prometheus Radio Project

CecchineR — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In its 10th year, the Prometheus Radio Project has been building low power FM (LPFM) radio stations with farm workers, civil rights organizations, and neighborhood collectives -- basically any underdog community group that wants a slice of the increasingly consolidated media.