Standing Up to the FCC Standing Up to the FCC
Even as he condemned the 3-to-2 vote of the Federal Communications Commission to allow media conglomerates to dramatically increase their control over newspapers and radio and ...
Jun 5, 2003 / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
FCC Rejects Public Interest FCC Rejects Public Interest
Monday's 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission to remove barriers to corporate consolidation of control over the media capped a process that, even by the standards of ...
Jun 3, 2003 / John Nichols
Local Heroes Local Heroes
Eight state legislators who are making a difference.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
ALEC Meets His Match ALEC Meets His Match
Challenging the right's powerhouse.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
Taking It to the States Taking It to the States
Important battles are being waged--and won--far beyond the Beltway.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime
With the June 2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission on a series of rule changes that would dramatically reshape the nation's media landscape rapidly approaching, it is a...
May 22, 2003 / John Nichols
FCC: Public Be Damned FCC: Public Be Damned
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney are founders of the media-reform network Free Press, one of the groups named in this article.
May 15, 2003 / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
Homeland Security Tracks Democrats Homeland Security Tracks Democrats
The Department of Homeland Security's Air and Marine Interdiction Division (AMID) says its mission is to "Protect the Nation's borders and the American people from the smuggling o...
May 14, 2003 / John Nichols
I Want My BBC I Want My BBC
LONDON - Frustrated by the failure of US-based broadcast networks to provide a realistic account of the political machinations that led to the Iraq war, millions of Americans tune...
May 8, 2003 / John Nichols
Blair Misses War Bounce Blair Misses War Bounce
GLASGOW -- The red shirts worn by activists with the Scottish Socialist Party featured the phrase "Axis of Evil," a reference to President Bush's identification of nations that we...
May 6, 2003 / John Nichols