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YOUR MEDIA RIGHTS

Few people understand their media rights as citizens and the legal obligations of broadcast TV stations to serve the public interest. Becoming informed about our communication rights as citizens is fundamental to our future as a democracy. Get educated and learn about our media rights as citizens—we own the airwaves!

Investigate Your Media – Instructions for inspecting FCC reports on public file at your local television stations.

See the informative articles about this campaign:

Your Media Rights: Why this Campaign? an overview of this campaign and our approach for accountability

Feedback Forums and Communication Law looks at more than a half-century of communications law and shows how this initiative is fully in accord with the rights and responsibilities of citizens

The Last Taboo on Television, by Duane Elgin a brief call for media accountability by one of the organizers of this campaign

The Making of a Movement, by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols

A Call for Media Reform, Ben Bagdikian