Media Reform and Social Change

Communication and access to technology are central to the success of all social change efforts.

Amalia Anderson, Main Street Project, talks about going t]into local communities and giving the common people--immigrants and indigenous people--the skills to tell their stories digitally in lieu of the opportunities offered (or not) by mainstream media.

Structure is the theme--structural change, not just for indigenous people, but all people with local or common interests.

Mark Lloyd: User generated media should be fully funded by taxes on corporate media.

Platforms and structures: give local people ownership, propriety, viewership and trickle-up direction--start with local empowerment.

MNN--go out and get locals and bring them into the operation--and turn the platform into a venue for locals and then work to expand the whole operation onto the internet.

Then the presenters pulled hte rug out from under the audience by taking the microphone at the head table and talking about what is bias and how to recognize unfair reporting.

Media bias examples--war, Katrina, immigration.