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Preview of Save KLSD
 ABOUT
THE FILM
After 4 1/2 years of attending media conferences,
filming interviews, editing, and fighting for Media Reform, Save KLSD is now available on DVD.
Why should we care that the mass media has been deregulated and is owned overwhelmingly by a handful of large corporations?
Because concentration of ownership in a few hands threatens competition and the diversity and localism of content. Find out more
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watch the preview of Save KLSD, a documentary film about the grassroots activism to save San Diego's progressive talk radio KLSD/AM1360, the lack of local, diverse content on our airwaves across America and the efforts to ensure broadcasters meet their public interest responsibilities.
Narrated by broadcasters Jon
Elliott and Bree Walker, the film includes Bill Moyers and
Phil Donahue;
progressive talk hosts Stacy
Taylor, Amy
Goodman, Ed Schultz,
Thom Hartmann,
Randi
Rhodes,
Cenk Uygur, and David Shuster; FCC Commissioners
Jon Adelstein and Michael Copps; MSNBC's Richard Wolffe; former Obama
administration official Van Jones; authors/professors Marjorie Cohn
and
Eric Klinenberg; Common Cause CEO Bob Edgar; co-founders of media reform group FreePress.net Robert
McChesney and John Nichols,
also of The Nation,
local activists Barbara Cummings, Joan Little
and musician Charlie Imes; local notables Congressman
Bob
Filner, San
Diego Council Member Marti Emerald, Channel 10's J.W. August, and
Voice of
San Diego's Andrew Donohue.
DVD EXTRAS: Full
interviews with John Nichols,
Cenk Uygur,
David Shuster, & Robert McChesney, plus trailer for Broadcast
Blues.
Film
Review by Mark Gabrish Conlan
Fortunately, the filmmakers — director Jon Monday and writer Jennifer C. Douglas — didn’t dwell on the ins and outs of the KLSD campaign but made their film much more about media consolidation in general, interviewing major figures on what’s left of the Left media in this country.
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more)
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For updates, go to Save KLSD's co-producer
Jennifer Douglas's
media reform blog.
Save KLSD, LLC will donate a $1 for each copy sold to a Media Reform group:
Common
Cause, New Media
Rights, Media
Action Center, and FreePress.net.
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HISTORY
REPEATS ITSELF...AGAIN 
BJB
Oregon
Nov 12, 2012 at 01:28pm