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Join the Florida Media Coalition by contacting us by email, phone call, or letter to be added to our mailing list:
Dora Pavlidis
Interim Statewide Organizer
Florida Media Coalition
PO Box 4177
Tampa, FL 33677-4177
Email
813-254-1687, ext. 25
Who: Florida Media Coalition [FMC] is an alliance of individuals and community, civic, media, non-profit and social responsibility organizations interested in promoting media that provide an uninhibited marketplace of ideas, use the public airwaves to serve the public interest and that reflect and respond to their local communities.
What: A non-partisan grassroots effort.
Where: FMC is headquartered at Tampa Bay Community Network in Tampa. Its efforts and coalition partners are statewide in Florida.
When: Founded with a meeting of representatives of 35 interested community groups in February 2008 and launched in March 2008.
Why: Florida’s Consumer Choice Act of 2007 threatens the future of public, education and government [PEG] cable access television. The downsizing of Florida media outlets and/or staff jeopardizes journalists’ ability to act as government watchdogs. These and other issues have prompted the banding together of those who believe that a vibrant media is the cornerstone of our democracy and efforts must be made to preserve and protect it.
How: Through an educational campaign including a Bill of Media Rights, the FMC will inform policymakers, stakeholders and ordinary citizens of its concerns. Its aim is the preservation and protection of the PEG channels and the promotion of a diverse and accessible media that best serve the public interest. The FMC was originally funded through a grant from the Washington, D.C.-based Media & Democracy Coalition
Supporters include:
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Joe Dascola [Ken Matek Associates, Inc.]
Earth Charter-US
Pastor John Epps
Florida Alliance for Retired Americans
Florida Public Interest Research Group
Florida Voices for Animals
Full Gospel Tabernacle Church
I-Vision
Andy Opel, Ph.D. [Florida State University]
Jean-Rene' Rinvil
Southwest Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice
Space Coast Progressive Alliance
Speak Up Tampa Bay
Becky Steele, Attorney [ACLU]
Tampa Bay Community Network
Telemundo Tampa [WRMD]
Telemundo Orlando [WTMO]
Rich Templin [AFL-CIO]
The Education Channel
University of Florida Media Project
Ray Worley [F-CAN]
Contacts:
Dora Pavlidis, Interim Statewide Organizer, FMC, 813-254-1687 or Email
Louise M. Thompson, Executive Director, TBCN, 813-254-1687 or Email
Brad Ashwell, Legislative Advocate, Florida PIRG, 850-224-332 or Email
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