http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2009/01/08/the-fading-promise-of-public-access/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:48:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2009/01/08/the-fading-promise-of-public-access/#comment-34489 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:12:49 +0000 http://www.ustvmedia.org/media-and-democracy/2009/01/08/the-fading-promise-of-public-access/#comment-34489 [...] An editorial in the Illinois Times in regards to some of the issues raised in the report on The Fading Promise of Public Access. Access programming is the last locally produced and viewed programming in a world where deregulation and consolidations have removed local voices and local community identity from the air nationwide. Commercial stations only want to sell you something; Access wants to tell you something. And that’s the key difference and value. PBS is great, but it can only do so much locally as well, with only a handful of locally produced shows like Prairie Fire and Illinois Stories. [...] […] An editorial in the Illinois Times in regards to some of the issues raised in the report on The Fading Promise of Public Access. Access programming is the last locally produced and viewed programming in a world where deregulation and consolidations have removed local voices and local community identity from the air nationwide. Commercial stations only want to sell you something; Access wants to tell you something. And that’s the key difference and value. PBS is great, but it can only do so much locally as well, with only a handful of locally produced shows like Prairie Fire and Illinois Stories. […]

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