What is Free Speech? Is it a prayer, picture, song, rap, poem, story, tweet, blog, flag, bumper-sticker, money, or video even one captured via smartphone? Is it what a politician says to followers, a preacher to those in the pews, a conversation at dinner, a lesson in a classroom, a made for TV movie? Is the message and method of delivery one and the same?
Open Letter to Local Churches – History and Current Viewership Content from churches has been a ‘walk-in’ mainstay of community media for four decades. For more than two of those … Continue reading The State Of Church & Community Media
We can be better. But “Great Again?” They may be slanderous words. When were our doors open so often, our schedule of programs so diverse, our rooms so filled with … Continue reading Better, But …
Q: What does Free Speech mean to you? Answers from Community TV Volunteers on Martin Luther King Day 2017: Ability to express who I am. Not a right, a need … Continue reading Question and Response: Free Speech
How do you listen? What is in the media you select? Are you open to discovery, conversation, and engagement to be better informed, or have you set our own filters … Continue reading What are your filters?
When you stop in to complain … we first determine if you know anything about us. If you do not pass the quick assessment of knowing us, then you will … Continue reading When You Stop in to Complain …
Free Speech: Symbolic protest against injustice and name-calling of those that protest injustice. All lawful. If you want to be heard or make-a-difference you choose your platform and symbols and … Continue reading Why choose symbols to express yourself
Whether the alleged use is a ‘political statement’ or not, whether it is a ‘parody’, or not: the decision for someone to express themselves—whether quoting a news article, an opponent … Continue reading Does copyright law provides us with a First Amendment-free zone
What are the reasonable needs of a community of 45,000 in central CT for access to a means to create, distribute, or merely view media in the public interest? The … Continue reading R/Evolution: Community Media Moment to be, or not to be
What is Free Speech? Is it a prayer, picture, song, rap, poem, story, tweet, blog, flag, bumper-sticker, money, or video even one captured via smartphone? Is it what a politician … Continue reading How to be true to Free Speech (Parrhesia)
Freeman P Quinn, 1st is the Free Speech Ambassador of WPAA-TV and Community Media Center. The slogan “Be Freeman” means to become digitally literate and be open to the opinion … Continue reading Who is Freeman P Quinn, 1st
