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First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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“Free speech is a danger to the neo-con fascists, which is why they suppress it.
Our best weapon is to speak freely and loudly and often.”
— G.E. Nordell

Rights Links

text of the U.S. Constitution 'Bill of Rights'
Constitution of the United States at the National Archives
The Center for Constitutional Rights [est. 1966]
California First Amendment Coalition
The Bill of Rights Institute [est. 1999]
Americans United for Separation of Church & State [est. 1947]
My Bill of Rights {The Foundation Foundation}

Media Links

Newseum: The Interactive Museum of News [est. 1997] in Washington, DC
The Freedom Forum {funds the Newseum} in Arlington, VA
Free Press / Media Reform Network
Freedom House: monitors democracy & freedom of the press
Action Coalition for Media Education [est. 2002]
TV Turnoff Network's 'TV Turnoff Week' [April 2005 = #11]
Media Channel: the global network for democratic media
Reporters sans frontières - Reporters Without Borders - Reporteros sin fronteras
World News Daily Information Clearing House
Project for Excellence in Journalism
The Voice of Arizona - the home of true free speech
Radio & Television News Directors Assn. [est. 1946]
Talk Radio News Service [est. 1993]
Free Speech Radio News [est. 2000]
Project Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News [est. 1976]
alarmist Alex Jones & InfoWars blogsite
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies [est. 1978]
News Corpse: The Internet Chronicle of Media Decay

History of Television & Radio Page at Magic Lantern<

Progressive Media Outlets

America Blog
Ana Marie Cox's Wonkette! blogsite [est. 1/2004]
Joshua Micah Marshall's 'Talking Points Memo' blogsite [est. 11/2000]
T.P.M. Cafe blog: Politics, Ideas & Lots of Caffeine [est. 5/2005]
The Voice of Arizona - the home of true free speech
Dateline Chamesa blogsite [est. 10/2005]
The Wayne Madsen Report
e.thePeople: public forum for democratic & deliberative discussion
Steve Barnes' Empires Fall blogsite
Marginal Revolution blog
David Swanson's "Let's Try Democracy" blogsite
Brad Friedman's "The Brad Blog"
David Sirota's blogsite
Samuel Graham-Felsen's "Bold Print" blogsite
News Hounds blog: 'We watch Fox so you don't have to'
American Politics Journal
True Blue Liberal blog [est. Nov 2004]
Direct Democracy blog
Tom Engelhardt's 'Tom Dispatch' blog
Michigan Liberal blogsite
Humid City blog v2.3 of New Orleans, LA
filmmaker Robert Greenwald's blogsite
BlogActive: Real Truth, Direct Action
very literate 3 Quarks daily blog
'Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics' blog [est. 3/2006]

AlterNet independent news [est. 1998]
Guerrilla News Network
Project for the Old American Century [est. 2002]
The Raw Story - alternative news
Free Speech Network
Workers Independent News / Labor Radio
Media Matters for America [est. May 2004]
Radio Inside Scoop
American Free Press website
High Country News [est. 1970]

The Nation Magazine direct subscription: 24 issues/6 months for $18.00 magazine website The Nation Institute: Dedicated to an independent, free press [est. 1967]

Mother Jones Magazine subscribe: 6 issues/year for $10.00 magazine website Progressive Magazine subscribe: 12 issues/year for $32.00 magazine website Dissent Magazine subscribe: 4 issues/year for $24.00 magazine website American Prospect Magazine subscribe: 12 issues/year for $19.95 magazine website Washington Monthly Magazine subscribe: 10 issues/year for $29.95 magazine website The Washington Spectator Newsletter direct subscription: 22 issues/year for $15.00 magazine website

Anti-American Radio
Glenn Dreck
Neil 'The Bore' Bortz
Ann 'The Man' Coulter
Roger Hedgekook
Bill O'Reilly's 'No Spine Zone'
drug-addled fat-boy Limp Rushbaugh
Michael Sewage
Sean Vannity

Air America Radio Network
established 31 March 2004; rescued from bankruptcy January 2007 by
the Green Brothers; revised schedule 'Air America 2.0' from May 2007
A.A.R.N. website • listen live!
click for separate Solutions / A.A.R.N. page

as-of November 2007, there are NO progressive/Air America outlets in the states
of Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, South Carolina and Texas

Non-Stop Radio: Fighting To Secure The Future of Progressive Talk
Blog Talk Radio

Nova M Radio official website
established in 2006 for purchase of stations to broadcast progressive/AAR content
Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, CA {announced 10/2006}
Mike Malloy Show, based in Atlanta, GA {back on air 10/30/2006}
Dr. Mike Newcomb, based in Phoenix, AZ {announced 10/2006}
John Zogby 'Pulse Of The Nation' weekly show {announced 10/2006}

	"Defying The Distortion: How We Created Air America - The New Radio Revolution" [2007] by Sheldon Drobny Vox Pop pb [4/2007] for $11.66 this appears to be an updated & retitled edition of the 2004 book
	"Road To Air America: Breaking The Right Wing Stranglehold On Our Nation's Airwaves" [2004] by Sheldon Drobny Select Books 9x6¼ pb [10/2004] out of print/used publisher bookpage

The Outdoor Advertising Cartel
2006 U.S. outdoor advertising gross revenue {per OAAA} was $6.81 billion;
the top three companies control 54.2 percent of the U.S. market

FIRST PLACE: Clear Channel Communications of Phoenix, Arizona
$1.341 billion in U.S. revenue for 2006 = 19.7% of the U.S. market (also #1 worldwide)
entry at Wikipedia
company website

SECOND: C.B.S. Outdoor of Phoenix, Arizona
$1.23 billion in revenue for 2006 = 18% of the U.S. market
entry at Wikipedia
company website

THIRD: Lamar Advertising Company of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
$1.120 billion in revenue for 2006 = 16.5% of the U.S. market
entry at Wikipedia
company website

FOURTH: Van Wagner Communications of New York City [re-formed 1997]
company website

FIFTH: JCDecaux Group [est. 1964] of Paris, France
also second place worldwide (after Clear Channel)
entry at Wikipedia
company website

Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Inc. [est. 1891]

Books About Media & Freedom Issues

	"What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and The New  Face of American Politics" [essays 2007] Edited by Andras Szanto, Introduction by Orville Schell PublicAffairs 8¼x5½ pb [11/2007] for $10.17
	"-30-: The Collapse of The Great American Newspaper" [2007] Edited by Charles M. Madigan Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2007] for $17.16
	"From The Palmer Raids To The PATRIOT Act: A History of The Fight For Free Speech In America" [2007] by Christopher M. Finan Beacon Press hardcover [5/2007] for $17.13
	"Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look At The Bizarre Reality of Fox News" [2007] by Joseph Minton Amann & Tom Breuer Nation Books 8x5½ pb [4/2007] for $11.66
	"End Times: The Death of The Fourth Estate" [2007] by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair A.K. Press/CounterPunch 7¼x5 pb [3/2007] for $10.85 CounterPunch official website
	"Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures In Corporate Media" [2006] by Jeff Cohen, Foreword by Jim Hightower PoliPointPress 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $10.61
	"Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over For Bush" [2006] by Eric Boehlert Free Press 9x6½ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.50 author's blogsite
	"When News Lies: Media Complicity & The Iraq War" [2006] by Danny Schechter Select Books 9¼x7½ pb with DVD [1/2006] for $17.61 official moviesite; author's blogsite
	"Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business" [orig 1985, rev 2005] by Neil Postman; 20th Anniversary Introduction by Andrew Postman Penguin 7¾x5 pb [12/2005] for $11.20 Viking hardcover [11/85] out of print/used
	"Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, The Business of News & The Danger To Us All" [2005] by Tom Fenton Regan Books 9x6 pb [1/2006] for $11.04 Regan Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2005] for $16.35
	"Perilous Times: Free Speech In Wartime From The Sedition Act of 1798 To The War On Terrorism" [2004] by Geoffrey R. Stone W.W. Norton 9¼x6¼ pb [10/2005] for $12.21 W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2004] for $23.80
	"The Death of Media: And The Fight To Save Democracy" [2005] by Danny Schechter "half manifesto and half piercing investigation" Melville House 6¼x5¼ pb [9/2005] for $7.70 author's blogsite
	"Freedom of The Press 2004: A Global Survey of Media Independence" [2004] From Freedom House, edited by Karin Deutsch Karlekar & Brian Katulis Rowman & Littlefield 10x8¼ pb [10/2004] for $19.95 Rowman & Littlefield 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2004] for $55.00
	"True Lies" [2004] by Anthony Lappé & Steven Marshall, with Ian Inaba; Foreward by Greg Palast Plume 8x5¼ pb [9/2004] for $11.90
	"We The Media: Grassroots Journalism - By The People, For The People" [2004] by Dan Gillmor O'Reilly Media 9x6¼ pb [1/2006] for $11.04 O'Reilly Media 8¾x6 hardcover [8/2004] for $15.72 publisher's bookpage
	"The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised & Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters" [orig 1983; full rev 2004] by Ben H. Bagdikian Beacon Press 8¼x5¼ pb [5/2004] for $20.00
	"The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media & How It Corrupts Democracy " [2004] by David Brock Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [4/2005] for $11.16 Crown Books 9¼x6.4 hardcover [5/2004] for $16.35 Random House ABR audio CD [5/2004] for $18.87 Random House ABR audio [5/2004] for $16.35
	"The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly" [2003] by Peter Hart "O'Reilly consistently concocts evidence to support his conservative talking points" FAIR/Seven Stories Press 7x7 pb [9/2003] for $8.95
	"Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism In America" [2003] Edited by Bruce Shapiro Thunder's Mouth Press 9x6 pb [7/2003] for $10.85
	"Censorship, Inc.: The Corporate Threat To Free Speech In The United States" [2002] by Lawrence C. Soley Monthly Review Press 8¾x6½ pb [8/2002] for $16.29 Monthly Review Press 9½x6 hardcover [8/2002] for $70.00 author's homepage
	"Muckraking!: The Journalism That Changed America" [2002] Edited by Judith & William Serrin New Press 9¼x7¾ pb [6/2002] for $16.50
	"Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of The 20th Century" [2000] by Carl Jensen Seven Stories Press 9x6 pb [11/2002] for $10.17 Seven Stories Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2000] for $26.95
	"Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook" [1998] Edited by Ron Sakolsky & Stephen Dunifer A.K. Press 9x6 pb [5/98] for $12.95
	"For the People: What the Constitution Really Says About Your Rights" [1998] by Akhil Reed Amar & Alan R. Hirsch Touchstone 9x6 pb [8/99] for $19.95 Free Press 9½x6½ hardcover [1/98] out of stock/used
	"The Bill of Rights: Creation & Reconstruction" [1998] by Akhil Reed Amar Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/2000] for $12.89 Yale Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [8/98] for $49.49 author's homepage at Yale
	"Made Possible By: The Death of Public Broadcasting In The United States" [1997] by James Ledbetter Verso 7¾x5 pb [11/98] for $10.20 Verso 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/97] for $25.00
	"Virtual Government: C.I.A. Mind Control Operations In America" [1997] by Alex Constantine includes information on "Operation Mockingbird: The Subversion of The Free Press By The C.I.A." Feral House 8½x5½ pb [7/97] for $10.17
	"Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky & The Media" [1993] Directed by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick Zeitgeist Video color DVD [2/2002] for $23.99 Zeitgeist Video color VHS [10/94] for $37.99 Black Rose Books 8½x9 pb [3/94] for $17.00 Black Rose Books 8¾x9 hardcover [3/94] for $55.99 full credits from IMDb
	"Unsilent Revolution: Television News & American Public Life, 1948-1991" [1992] by Robert J. Donovan Cambridge Univ Press pb [3/92] for $28.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/92] out of print/used
	"The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide" [1991] by Linda R. Monk Close Up Publng pb 4th edition [2/2004] for $19.95 author's website
	"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of The Mass Media" [1988] by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky Pantheon 9¼x6¼ pb [1/2002] for $12.89 Pantheon hardcover [9/88] for $26.94 Chomsky bio page at M.I.T.
	"A History of The Black Press" [1987] by Armistead S. Pride & Clint C. Wilson II Howard Univ Press 11x8½ pb [6/87] for $27.95
	"Public Opinion: An Important Work On The Theory of Public Opinion In Relation To Traditional Democratic Theory" [1922 classic] by Walter Lippmann [1889-1974] FQ Classics 8¾x5¾ pb [10/2007] for $12.99 NuVision Publns 9x5¾ pb [9/2007] for $13.49 B&N Publng 9x6 hardcover [2/2006] for $22.79
	"Liberty and The News" [1920 classic] by Walter Lippmann [1889-1974] Princeton Univ Press 7¾x4¾ pb [10/2007] for $11.53 Transaction Publrs 8x5 pb [1/95] for $21.95

Magazines About Media & Freedom Issues

	EXTRA! Magazine: published by F.A.I.R. subscription 6 issues/year [USA only] for $35.06 online archives Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting [F.A.I.R.] "... works to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority & dissenting viewpoints."
	"Mother Jones" Magazine [est. 1976] An independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting. subscription: 6 issues/year for $10.00 Mother Jones Magazine website

Video Documentaries About Media & Freedom Issues

	"Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" [June 2004] Produced & directed by Robert Greenwald "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." — A.J. Liebling Disinformation Company color DVD [7/2004] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb; official movie website "film made possible by MoveOn.Org and The Center for American Progress"
	"Orwell Rolls In His Grave" documentary [2003] Written & directed by Robert Kane Pappas Go-Kart DVD [6/2005] for $14.99 full credits at IMDb • official website
	"W.M.D.: Weapons of Mass Deception" documentary [Globalvision Dec 2004] Co-produced & directed by Danny Schechter Cinema Libre color DVD [3/2005] for $12.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site
	"Stupidity" [Téléfilm Canada 2003] Co-produced & directed by Albert Nerenberg; extras include uncut interviews with Noam Chomsky, Giancarlo Livraghi, Bill Maher, director Albert Nerenberg, Avital Ronell & director Joel Schumacher Disinformation color DVD [7/2006] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site
	"Spin" [Oct 1995] This documentary video compares pirated news network live satellite feeds with on-air propaganda from the 1992 U.S. presidential election, revealing the raw manipulative power of television. Co-produced, written, directed & edited by Brian Springer download available at the official website {requires Flash} full credits at IMDb
	"Feed: A Comedy About Running For President" [Oct 1992] An earlier, similar (but funnier) documentary that includes pirated news network live satellite feeds and compares them to on-air propaganda from the 1992 U.S. presidential primary in New Hampshire. Co-produced & co-directed by Kevin Rafferty & James Ridgeway; satellite feeds provided by Brian Springer First Run Features color VHS [11/99] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb

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