Dear KC Media Watch Subscribers:

This alert calls for immediate action!

THE ISSUE

A previous KC Media Watch called for us to urge Congress to oppose rule 

FCC (Federal Communications Commission) rule changes that would 

allow our local TV stations, newspaper, radio stations, and cable provider 

to all be owned by one company.  Unfortunately, the rule changes were 

passed.  But, because one million Americans raised their voices 

against the FCC decision, the Senate Commerce Science and 

Transportation Committee recently sent a bill to the Senate floor for 

a vote that would roll back many of the rules. Today, July 8, that same 

committee will have a full committee hearing titled "Media Ownership 

(Radio Consolidation)."  

The challenge is to get the committee's bill to the floor of the Senate and 

House for a vote.

As of July 7, "Roll Back the FCC" legislation now has 38 supporters in the 

Senate (out of 100). We need 51 for passage.

The House bills have the overlapping support of 65 cosponsors on HR 2462

and146 on HR 2052.  We need 216 for passage.

NONE of these Missouri or Kansas Members of Congress have yet 

become co-sponsors of the bill:  Missouri Senators Kit Bond and 

Jim Talent, Missouri Representative Karen McCarthy, Kansas Senators 

Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, Kansas Representative Dennis Moore. 
 

THE ACTION (courtesy of MediaReform.Net)

Take 3 Minutes to Stop Media Monopoly: Phone It In.

 1.  Call your Congressional representatives and urge them to support the

Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee's bill that would 

roll back the new FCC rules.  (One phone call from a constituent can be 

more effective than scores of email petitions.)  

> Go to www.mediareform.net/stopthefcc and follow the easy stepsthe 

local and D.C. phone numbers for Senators and Representatives are 

all there, as well as suggestions of what to say when you call.  

2.  Let KC Media Watch know who you called so we can keep a tally.  

Thanks!

More about this issue and media reform is at the website www.mediareform.net