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Media & Democracy 12.5.2013

Clearing the Air

Conservatives in the media are churning out distortions like a well-oiled machine. The latest is that the FCC is invading newsrooms and squelching dissent.

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Media & Democracy 12.5.2013

Net Neutrality Is A Civil Rights Issue

An FCC making the right call on this issue will go down in history as a champion of civil rights and the public interest.

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Voting & Elections 12.5.2013

How We Beat Voter ID

We saw an attempt this week, once again, to make voting more difficult in Colorado for those who do not have a particular form of ID.

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Media & Democracy 12.5.2013

BREAKING: Media Monopolists Want More Monopoly

This just in: Comcast wants to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion. The deal would transform a media behemoth into a 40 million subscriber goliath

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