{"id":7002,"date":"2009-03-19T22:43:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2009-03-19T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:46:48","slug":"brad-speaking-at-common-cause-media-reform-conference-in-la-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7002","title":{"rendered":"Brad Speaking at Common Cause Media Reform Conference in L.A. on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Docs\/CommonCauseLocalMediaReformSummit_Flyer_032109.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/CommonCauseLocalMediaReformSummit_Flyer_032109.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Last year&#8217;s Media Reform Conference with the theme &#8220;Have the Media Undermined Our Democracy?&#8221; at which I spoke, was pretty memorable. That one featured an FCC commissioner and then-Rep., now-Labor Secretary Hilda Solis (D-CA) on the panel. Here&#8217;s some <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5858\">video and a transcript of my remarks<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;ve been invited back (book-keeping error, no doubt) and the focus will be on local media, though I&#8217;ll likely be paraphrasing Tip O&#8217;Neill to make the case that &#8216;<i>all<\/i> media is now local&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s speakers include Domonique DiPrima, Tanya Acker, Mario Solis-March, Linda Milazzo, Anthony Samad and myself. Which one of us will be named Secretary of HUD next year? Who knows! But hey, it could happen!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the area, please stop on by and say hello!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Local Media for Social Change: A Southern California Regional Summit&#8221;, Saturday, March 21, 11:00am, Occidental College, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxy.edu\/x6333.xml\">Norris Hall of Chemistry<\/a>, Los Angeles (<a href=\"http:\/\/departments.oxy.edu\/uepi\/mediajustice\/directions.html\"><i>Map\/directions<\/i><\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&#038;b=4847721\"><i>Details\/registration<\/i><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Docs\/CommonCauseLocalMediaReformSummit_Flyer_032109.pdf\"><i>Event flyer [PDF]<\/i><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s Media Reform Conference with the theme &#8220;Have the Media Undermined Our Democracy?&#8221; at which I spoke, was pretty memorable. That one featured an FCC commissioner and then-Rep., now-Labor Secretary Hilda Solis (D-CA) on the panel. Here&#8217;s some video and a transcript of my remarks last year. This year, I&#8217;ve been invited back (book-keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,21,337,46,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-california","category-los-angeles","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}