Free Press is embarking on a new initiative to expose the ways in which big-money politics and broadcast media are poisoning democratic discourse. Their report, Citizens Inundated, sheds new light on how broadcasters rake in massive profits from political ads without fully disclosing the moneyed interests funding these misleading television spots.
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has already picked a winner in the 2012 elections: TV broadcasters.
Companies like CBS Corp., News Corp. and Sinclair Broadcast Group are already dividing the spoils of an election year that will see unprecedented spending on political ads.
I'll talk about this with Tim Karr of Free Press.
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Public Citizen Petitions Federal Reserve and Financial Stability Oversight Committee
to Break Up Bank of America
I'll talk to David Arkush, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch.
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KKFI’s Mike Murphy was the guest host for the January 17, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody.
Independent Media, the Journalism Crisis and the Occupy Movement
On November 27, 2011, I gave a talk on independent media and the journalism crisis at the All Souls Sunday Forum at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, Missouri.
David Cobb on Occupy the Courts
The January 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features www.movetoamend.org spokesman David Cobb talking about the Occupy the Courts actions to be held across the country on January 20 and January 21, including the occupation of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., the scene of the crime.
This show also inlucdes audio from the oral arguments in the Citizens United v FEC case.
