Media Reform and the Climate Emergency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Park
Keyword(s):  
Media Reform

The Political Economic Structure of Early Media Reform Before and After the Communications Act of 1934

Resonance ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-266
Author(s):  
Josh Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Educational Broadcasting ◽  
System Building ◽  
Before And After ◽  
National Advisory Council ◽  
Media Reform ◽  
Activist Groups

This paper examines how early media reform work evolved from political activism into a system-building advocacy campaign in support of Schools of the Air between 1930 and 1940. Calling upon archival work that focuses on 1935–1940 records, it examines how prominent activist groups the National Committee for Education by Radio (NCER) and the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education (NACRE) shifted their strategic approaches to adjust to the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934. Though scholarship has chronicled disagreements between the NCER and NACRE over how to best support educational broadcasting, a dialectical interplay emerged after the act during the New Deal due to the influence of the Federal Radio Education Committee (FREC). FREC inspired A.G. Crane of the NCER to build the Rocky Mountain Radio Council (RMRC). The RMRC was the first sustainable educational media network, and the group coined the term public broadcasting. While the Communications Act signaled the end of the first wave of media activism, the policy also inspired reformers to develop a new system-building strategy that set the groundwork for NPR and PBS.

Resisting Abridgment Librarianship as Media Reform

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Nappo
Keyword(s):  
Media Reform

Disabled Access and Media Reform

2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
Alex Varley
Keyword(s):  
Digital Television ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
Media Reform

The recent media reforms were not just about ownership. The quiet revolution was the changes to the captioning provisions of the Broadcasting Services Act. Whilst the amendments tightened up some previous loopholes, they also opened up a range of new areas of potential dispute. There is no quick fix and one thing is clear: if you are disabled, access to the expanding possibilities of digital television is less assured than a firm date for analogue switch-off.

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