FCC meeting in Iowa City Wenesday Oct. 5 at 7PM

Michael Copps and Johnathan Adelstein will be holding a town meeting on the future of the media Wednesday at 7PM in room C20 of the New Pomerantz Center. This is located on the corner of Market Street and the T. Anne Cleary walkway, across from the John Pappajohn business building.
The FCC is looking at allowing more consolidation in the media. This is a very important meeting. Copps and Adelstein held similar meetings in 2003 when this issue was before the FCC then. They credit the turnouts to those meetings with alerting congress to the public sentiment against the consolidation. Congress temporarily stalled consolidation, before it was thrown out by an appeals court. The court reasoned that the FCC was not acting in the public interest if there was such large opposition.
So this meeting is important.
If you would like to speak, testimony will be limited to 2 minutes per person and will be strictly adhered to. There are workshops tonite and tomorrow to help speakers prepare their testimony to fit the guidelines.
Workshops are in Iowa City tonite at 5 PM at the Public Access TV studio, 206 Lafayette Street and tomorrow at the AFSCME office in Eastdale Plaza, 1700 South 1st Ave, Suite 19 (above the DMV) at 6PM.

Sorry I did not post earlier. My kid got married this weekend and so...