By Patricia Harrison
There is no viable substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services.
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🎙 Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin 📹 March 2017
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
Battle for the Net: Our Letter to the FCC
Protecting net neutrality is crucial to ensuring that the internet remains a central driver of economic growth and opportunity, job creation, education, free expression, and civic organizing for everyone.
Cosmo: Why It’s Important to Recognize That ‘Moonlight’ Was Robbed Of Its Moment
By Brittney Cooper
The Academy Awards did the best possible thing in the worst possible way last night, when it conferred Moonlight the Oscar for Best Picture.
TechCrunch: the Implications of the End of Net Neutrality
By Sergey Denisenko
When Donald Trump pulled off a stunning victory to win the U.S. presidency, I—and many others who work in digital media—began to speculate about how the Trump administration might handle net neutrality.
BroadwayWorld: Arts Organizations on the Importance of the National Endowment for the Arts
By Alexa Criscitiello
The overall assumption regarding an interest in the arts seems to be one of partisan politics. Its value is an often-debated topic in a divided nation whose idealistic chasm grows wider by the day.
PEN America: DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
PEN America's take on today's most pressing threats to free expression
🎙 Your media arts & culture news 📷 NAMAC eBulletin 📹 February 2017
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
This Fine Day We Wake With The Poets
By Wendy Levy
On Monday, January 30, award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar posted poems on his Twitter account by poets from nations banned by the immigration block. Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen—incredible words of vision, hope, truth.
Corporation For Public Broadcasting: Reported Trump Privatization Plan Would Be “Devastating” To Public Media
By Matt Gertz
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is pushing back on reported efforts by the Trump administration to privatize it, saying the proposal would have a “devastating effect” and that “the entire public media service would be severely debilitated.”