Sous la direction de l'ancien commissaire f\u00e9d\u00e9ral aux communications Michael Copps, Common Cause a annonc\u00e9 aujourd'hui son projet de lancer une initiative nationale de r\u00e9forme des m\u00e9dias et de la d\u00e9mocratie visant \u00e0 mettre en lumi\u00e8re et \u00e0 contrer le pouvoir politique et \u00e9conomique croissant de l'industrie des communications.<\/p>
\"Today's information technologies have tremendous potential to give Americans access to information, connect us to the rest of the world, and strengthen our democracy,\" said Common Cause President Bob Edgar. \"We can't afford to let increasingly powerful and concentrated telecom and media interests use their muscle to control that future.\"<\/p>
\"Working in Washington and through our network of state chapters, Common Cause's initiative aims to restore and expand diversity, open access, transparency and public control in both traditional and new media,\" Edgar added. \"And in Michael Copps, we've found the perfect person to guide it.\" <\/p>
Edgar a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que les dons g\u00e9n\u00e9reux de plusieurs fondations fourniront un soutien financier initial \u00e0 l'initiative. Elle s'appuiera \u00e9galement largement sur l'expertise et le plaidoyer de Copps, qui, pendant une d\u00e9cennie (2001-2011), en tant que membre de la FCC, s'est r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 \u00eatre un fervent d\u00e9fenseur du r\u00f4le du gouvernement pour garantir que les m\u00e9dias traditionnels, Internet et d'autres syst\u00e8mes num\u00e9riques servent l'int\u00e9r\u00eat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.<\/p>
Locating in Washington, DC in 1970, Copps served for more than a dozen years as chief-of-staff for U.S. Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-SC, and as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development in the Clinton administration before joining the FCC. He was the seventh longest-serving commissioner in the agency's history. (Click here for a biography of Michael Copps.)<\/p>
Copps joined Common Cause's National Governing Board earlier this year and will temporarily relinquish that position to oversee the Media Democracy and Reform Initiative. \"A number of other groups already are doing great work in this area,\" Copps said. \"We are determined to bolster their efforts, using our national membership, organizing, and campaign experience, and our 35 state chapters to focus attention on, and build public support for, media reform. Without media that dig for facts, report real news, and reflect the diversity of our nation, self-government cannot endure.\"<\/p>
L'Initiative de r\u00e9forme des m\u00e9dias et de la d\u00e9mocratie s'attaquera, entre autres, aux probl\u00e8mes cr\u00e9\u00e9s par les fusions industrielles et la consolidation du contr\u00f4le au sein des r\u00e9gions et entre les plateformes m\u00e9diatiques ; \u00e0 la suppression du contr\u00f4le local sur le c\u00e2ble et le haut d\u00e9bit municipal ; \u00e0 l'octroi de licences de diffusion en blanc sans tenir compte des obligations statutaires de servir l'int\u00e9r\u00eat public ; aux d\u00e9fis pos\u00e9s aux principes du d\u00e9ploiement du haut d\u00e9bit omnipr\u00e9sent et d'un Internet ouvert ; et aux attaques contre le financement de la radiodiffusion publique. <\/p>
With its longtime focus on the role of money in politics, Edgar said Common Cause is particularly concerned with the drowning out of voters' diverse political voices by massive political spending by the few. \"We see this initiative as a natural complement to our other efforts to counter the impact of big money on our politics and our elections and to ensure that ours is a government 'of, by and for the people,'\" Edgar said.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\n