Posts by Scott Sanders on the Chicago Media Action website

Posted by Mitchell - July 2, 2025 (entry 797)

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Analysis, Action, ""State of the Union""

Small Signs of Life Observed at Chicago Sun-Times

Letter to the Tribune

CMA presents a Public Education Forum with author Robert Jensen

Assorted Public Broadcasting Articles from 2004

Truly amazing web sites!

CMA in ""Reader"", ""Current"" and on C-SPAN

Back Off Big Bird

A cliffhanger at 'Chicago Tonight'

Kids' shows funding needs to be saved (from the Chicago Daily Herald)

Dumberer and Dumberer

Time to Unplug CPB - and Question Common Cause

CMA petition to deny mentioned in the Chicago Daily Herald

Take Action: Retain local control over cable franchising

Ivory, Bone, Mist, Pale, Blanched, Albino, Christian, American

Offshore Radio / Murrow / WiZaRDs / Clandestine Radio

Terkel verdict on Murdoch: ""Neanderthal""

Take Action to Retain Local Control of Cable

ALERT: Encourage transparency and debate regarding Palestine

Demand Internet neutrality / Thank you to Open Univ. of the Left

Rush's million-dollar conflict? (article from the Chicago Sun-Times)

Let's Put an End to Sesame Beginnings

The Advert Enforcer

Hands Off the Internet

CMA Fights Secret Smithsonian/Showtime Deal

What Does AT&T Want for Its ""Old"" $1M ""Gift"" to Bobby Rush's Charity?

Bringing AT&T to Tears in the City of Wild Onions / Stop Merger Mania!

""Net Neutrality"" Not Really a New Concept / Stop Merger Mania !!!

What Did Senator Stevens Say? / Bribes Behind S.2686? / FCC in Bed w/Industry

Public Broadcasting Reform Update

Demand a democratic restucturing of Chicago Public Radio

Demand a Democratic Restructuring of Chicago Public Radio

FCC Broadcast Ownership Rules, Part II: The Reawakening

TAKE ACTION! - Tell ""Mancow"" Muller to Move On

More “Mancow” Fun! / CMA Supports Independent Radio / Misc.

Amy Goodman & Urban Media Issues Forums

Torey's secret radio hits snag / Vote to not vote? / Pubcatcher / Israel’s PBS

Media Ownership Vote at FCC Nov 3

View an awesome recent Iran program here!



Coverage of the Inner City and the Urban Poor - A CMA Forum, Oct. 4

Photos from the David and Amy Goodman event, September 20, 2006 (part 1 of 2)

Fact or Opinion - Are Chicago TV License Challenges Looney?

Oppose Illinois House Telecom Bill 1500

Mr. Sanders Goes to Springfield

""Buying the War"", ""Bill Moyers Journal"" series premiere broadcast 4/25
viewing party at Evanston coffee shop


""Into the wood chipper with yer public input, eh?""

Yet further thoughts upon the joint wttw/wbez advisory board meeting

Tuning Out the Left

CMA's FCC petition to deny area tv licenses in the media

Community station WLUW-FM to go corporate?

More WLUW | LPFM legislation | Chicago Indie Radio Project fundraiser | New area full power educational FM licenses?

Iraqi mass deaths due to U.S.-led invasion and occupation pass milestone,
majority of U.S. media regulatory agency requires german translation:


Guilt, Innocence, and Big Media

FCC Hearing: Followup Story Assignments for Real World Journalists

Frontline Iran docu mixed bag at best
TAKE ACTION: PBS CEO misleads us about community control of public TV


Photos from the December 7, 2007 Chicago Media Action Holiday Singalong at Tribune Tower

Pentagon Propaganda, Public Broadcasting, and Sewer Board Trustees

Democracy or just ""democratized""?

All state cable franchising is a fraud!

Stop AT&T

Secure CAN TV funding

Privatizing the Airwaves

Media Democracy Day Chicago 2009 - Saturday Nov. 7th

TAKE ACTION: Evanston, IL Community Media Center facing $200,000 proposed cut by City

Evanston considers dropping cable's public access support

Robert McChesney and John Nichols to speak in Chicago, Thursday March 4th

CMA legal squad fires another volley in Chicago tv license petition battle

Article by CMA's Scott Sanders and James Owens ""Control of public media as a social justice issue"" published by Truthout and Editor & Publisher, others

A neutral network alone will not build a just media system for us, and neither will professional journalists: Control of public media as a social justice issue. - By Scott Sanders & James Owens (Editor & Publisher, Truthout)

Who controls public media is more important than its funding

Chicago Media Action at U.S. Social Forum 2010 - A Workshop

2 New articles: Community Control of Media (from USSF workshop)

Local Community Radio Act Passage a Major Win for Community Control of Local Media

Corporate Media's Endless Validations of its Own Limitations

DJ LOCKOUT AT WZRD-FM | EVANSTON COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER CHANNEL DARK, EXEC DIR. RESIGNS | WBEZ BUYS NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART LPFM

My visit to inspect the public files at Chicago Public Media

Pacifica Foundation Rejects Chicago's WBEZ-FM's Negative Characterization of ""Advocacy Identity"" in American Media

An incomplete list of articles and posts stemming from Chicago Public Media's decision to drop ""Smiley & West""

Smiley & West w/Amy Goodman in Chicago 11/8: Poverty, Power and the Public Airwaves

""Democracy Now!"" finally on full power Chicago radio - but it's WCPT, not WBEZ.

New Article

The new 'professionalized' Al Jazeera will not solve democratic deficits in US public media -- We need a revolution.

Media activists played a key role in the forced exit of WBEZ CEO Torey Malatia

Are community radio, paid & volunteer journalism, more in CAN TV's future?

Are community radio, paid & volunteer journalism, more in CAN TV's future?

Demand democratically accountable community media in Chicago or forfeit democracy. Your choice.

""I do declare, which way to the yacht? Has anybody seen my monocle?""

Reality based multimedia?

Message to CAN TV board of trustees and staff from author and journalist John Nichols

View CAN TV's undemocratic by-laws & SIGN A PETITION to give voting control to its volunteers and donors

Give voting control of CAN TV to its volunteers and donors

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