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STOP CLEAR CHANNEL TAKEOVER OF NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION IN SF
Date:
Monday, May 06, 2002
Time:
12:00 PM
-
2:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
Media Alliance
Location Details:
City Hall Steps facing Plaza (not Van Ness side)
***TAKE ACTION NOW*** Please Distribute
Please join us for a press conference and generally noisy
event on the steps of SF's City Hall - Monday May 6 Noon
WITH
Willie Ratcliff-Publisher SF Bayview, Bruce
Brugmann-Publisher SF Guardian, Davey-D - former PA
director at ClearChannel radio station KMEL-FM and others!
Media behemoth ClearChannel Communications - one of the
largest
and most criticized media companies in the U.S. - isn't
content with dominating the nation's radio airwaves,
billboards, and concert venues. On Monday, in a
precedent-setting case with national implications, SF's
Supervisors are about to hand over gatekeeper status for
the city's newspaper distribution to
ClearChannel subsidiary Adshel - without so much as a
public
comment period.
It's troubling enough that elected representatives would
allow a for- profit corporation to determine which
publications can be distributed in public spaces, and to
allow them to profit from the process by posting
advertising up to 18 feet long on the backside of the
kiosks. But the contract is just plain awful in
other ways too - it locks the city into a 20 year contract
with no money at all from ClearChannel to pay for the
administrative
costs of the program.
This deal is not in the public's interest. It is bad for
our media landscape.
WE DEMAND a slow-down of this process to include a full
public hearing on the implications of this law locally and
nationally, and testimony on ClearChannel's monopolistic
and anti-competitive policies (as thoroughly documented by
Salon.com's Eric Boehlert,
CONTACT YOUR SUPERVISOR:
Whether or not you can make it to City Hall on Monday
and Tuesday, PLEASE call or email at least two
supervisors AND TELL THEM NOT TO LET HUGE MEDIA
CONGLOMERATES STRANGLE INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN OUR CITY!
Tom Ammiano, Tom.Ammiano@sfgov.org, 415-554-5144
Chris Daly, Chris.Daly@sfgov.org, 415-554-7970
Matt Gonzalez, Matt.Gonzalez@sfgov.org, 415-554-7630
Tony Hall, Tony.Hall@sfgov.org, 415-554-6516
Mark Leno, Mark.Leno@sfgov.org, 415-554-7734
Sophie Maxwell, Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org, 415-554-7670
Jake McGoldrick, Jake.McGoldrick@sfgov.org,
415-554-7410
Gavin Newsom, Gavin.Newsom@sfgov.org, 415-554-5942
Aaron Peskin, Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org, 415-554-7450
Gerardo Sandoval,
Gerardo.Sandoval@sfgov.org,415-554-6975
Leland Yee, Leland.Yee@sfgov.org, 415-554-7752
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