Airwaves & Liberty

Pacifica couldn’t make it to this year’s National Conference on Media Reform, but I wanted to mention that Free Speech TV is there doing some live broadcasting, and that Free Press will post lots of audio and video from the conference to their website after it happens. ~Nathan

Bill Moyers, Amy Goodman, Van Jones, Phil Donahue, Laura Flanders, Dan Rather, and many other media luminaries are in Minneapolis, joining thousands gathered to challenge corporate media monopolies.

Free Speech TV, the nation’s first independent progressive television network, is offering 21 hours of live coverage from the National Conference for Media Reform.

The National Conference for Media Reform, hosted by Free Press, marks the epicenter of a growing national movement challenging corporate control of U.S. media systems.

DATES: June 6 – 8, 2008

TIMES (EDST): LIVE Friday 11am – 1pm; 2pm – 6:00pm
LIVE Saturday 9am – 2pm; 3pm – 7pm; 9pm – 11:30pm
LIVE Sunday 10:30am – 2:00pm
Repeats Friday 6pm – 9:00am Saturday
Repeats Saturday 11:30pm – 10:30am Sunday
Repeats Sunday 2:00pm – 3:00am Monday

Plays on Free Speech TV, DISH Network Channel 9415, with a live netcast at http://www.freespeech.org

Program Schedule - all times Eastern Daylight Time

Friday June 6
11:00am – 1:00pm Opening Plenary
2:00pm – 2:30pm Interview #1
2:30pm – 4:00pm Media and Election: Uncovering 2008
4:00pm – 4:30pm Interview #2
4:30pm – 6:00pm How Far Have We Come: People of Color in the Mass Media

Saturday June 7
9:00am – 10:00am Keynote: Bill Moyers
10:00am – 10:30am Interview #3
10:30am – 12:00pm From Broadcast to Broadband
12:00pm – 12:30pm Interview #4
12:30pm – 2:00pm Media and the War: An Unembedded View
3:00pm – 3:30pm Interview #5
3:30pm – 5:00pm Media Policy in a New Congress
5:00pm – 5:30pm Interview #6
5:30pm – 7:00pm Owning Our Own and Reaching the Masses
9:00pm – 11:30pm Keynote: Media Begins with Me

Sunday June 8
10:30am – 12:00pm TBA
12:00pm – 12:30pm Interview #7
12:30pm – 2:00pm Closing Plenary

For more information: freespeech.org, freepress.net