ResourceShelf Newsletter 280
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Number 280 October 4, 2006
Resource of the Week: Well Connected
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
This week's resource comes to you from the hard-working folks at the
Center for Public Integrity, "a nonprofit organization dedicated to
producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of
public concern." One huge issue of public concern is who owns/controls
the vast network of media outlets. CPI's "Well Connected" project "is
an ongoing investigation... of the businesses that control the
nation's information pipelines and of their government overseers. The
project is funded by the Ford Foundation, with partial funding from
the Open Society Institute."
We direct your attention specifically to the three Research Tools on
the righthand site of the home page:
+ Click on the In Your State link. On the righthand side of the next
page is a dropdown menu inside a U.S. map. Choose your state and
click 'Go' to get a report.
Which telecom companies are pulling the strings in your state
government? Find out which telecommunications companies are spending
the most on lobbying and campaign contributions. Learn about your
public utility boards, where they are located and how to file a
complaint. Also, view the personal financial disclosure statements of
board members and learn how much they earn.
Within this information you'll find a link to a 'Public Service
Commission Disclosure Ranking Report Card,' which evaluates financial
disclosure requirements for public service commissionpublic utility
board members in each state. (Florida gets an F. I'm shocked-just-
shocked.)
+ You can use the MediaTracker search box to find out who owns the
media outlets in your local area. Enter a zip code, a call sign, or
a city/state combination. You'll get detailed charts of all the
radio and TV stations and major newspapers in your area. A multi-
faceted search box at the top allows you to fine-tune your results
-- e.g., by geographic radius. Note that you can get detailed
profiles of the owner companies by using the dropdown menu in the
search box or clicking on the live links in the 'owner' column at
the far right of each chart.
+ The InfluenceTracker -- which covers broadcast radio/TV,
cable/satellite TV and telephone companies -- provides information
on:
* Campaign Contributions (from 1998 through September 2004).
* Junkets -- e.g., "industry-funded trips... by members of the
House and Senate commerce committees and their staffs between
January of 2000 and March of 2004."
* Lobbying -- "(T)he amounts that companies, associations and
unions spend on lobbying Congress and federal agencies as well as
the amounts paid to consultants hired to affect policy."
* Revolving Door -- "(T)he most comprehensive outline to date of
the back-and-forth movement of people from government to
industry."
Do read about the methodology used to gather and process all this
information into "a 51,870-record database consisting of every radio
and television station and cable television system in the United
States." Impressive.
While we're on the topic of media ownership, the editor would like to
commend your attention to one of her favorite resources, Who Owns
What, a "guide to what the major media companies own," developed and
maintained by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). This falls into
the simple-but-elegant category. Down the lefthand side of the page is
an alphabetical list of the major media companies. Click on each one
to see a list of the outlets that company owns in each state, along
with brief contact information for the company. On the righthand side
of the page is an archive of CJR articles about media ownership.
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