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America's Digital Divide: A Fact of Life For Tens of Millions
by InternetForEveryone.org
Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and other telco giants have spent mad public relations money spreading the myth that the digital divide is a thing of the past. But redlining of and denial of service to poor and minority communities have been a core feature of the business models of the cable industry since its start decades ago, and of the phone companies for more than a century. In the 21st century, cheap available broadband internet is as necessary to economic development as paved streets and roads. Communitgies without it will become or remain economic, educational, business and social backwaters.
Don't stop here. Explore the links below, which trace the stories, in print and video, of five instances in which the digital divide affects access to careers and employment, to health care, to the basic rights of citizenship and humanity we should all be able to take for granted.
Why Low-Power FM Radio Is Important to Your Community
In this 2007 interview, Bill Moyers explains what Low Power FM Radio is. Although the legislation referred to was in a previous Congress, the information is still entirely relevant. The Low Power FM legislation in the current congress, has an excellent chance of passage, and will be the final enabling act for the establishment of thousands of low power FM radio stations in urban and rural areas throughout the country.
What's at stake here is whether local people are going to have access to local information on what's happening in their neighborhoods.
Is Junk Media Making You Sick?
What is the absence of news and journalism in media doing to us? Nothing good, according to this video from StopBigMedia.Org,
Davey D Interviews Dr. Jared Ball on Whether HipHop Is Mass Media
Whose message is it, and whose media? Davey D queries Dr. Jared Ball at Baltimore's Morgan State University.
Danny Schetcher, the News Dissector on the Media
Danny Schetcher, a.k.a the news dissector gave this address on the state of the media last spring in Boston's Ford Hall. Among much else, he discusses predatory lending, the threat that corporate media pose to democracy and much, much more.
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