November 3, 2011
For Immediate Release

Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202 454-5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
Maura Corbett
202 525-4352
mcorbett@glenechogroup.com

MERGER OPPONENT CHALLENGES VERACITY OF AT&T/T-MOBILE COMMERCIALS
Media Access Project (MAP), a public interest law firm which has asked the Federal Communications Commission to block AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, has called upon a Washington, DC television station to stop running AT&T commercials [...]

November 3, 2011
For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202.454.5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
Mera Szendro Bok
202.454.5685
mera@mediaaccess.org
Chrystiane Pereira
202.454.5683
cpereira@mediaaccess.org

MAP Brief Challenges Constitutionality of FCC Indecency Policies

WASHINGTON D.C. -Media Access Project today filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States asking that it affirm a lower court decision which found that the FCC’s policies with respect to allegedly [...]

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Contact: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202.454.5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
Mera Szendro Bok
202.454.5685
mera@mediaaccess.org

FCC “Reform” Bill Too Late For Halloween

WASHINGTON D.C. – Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project issued the following statement in response to FCC “reform” legislation introduced today by Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore) and Senator Dean Heller (R-Nev):

This so-called “reform” bill is [...]

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Contact: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202.454.5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
Mera Szendro Bok
202.454.5685
mera@mediaaccess.org

New “Wardrobe Malfunction” Decision Has “Less Here Than Meets The Eye”
WASHINGTON D.C. – Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project, issued the following statement in reaction to today’s action of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversing the [...]

Contact: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202.454.5681
andys@mediaaccess.org

WASHINGTON -The Federal Communications Commission today took steps to increase public access to information about broadcasters’ performance.  It proposes to add several new categories of information to be kept and to require that most information currently in broadcasters’ files be made available online.
Media Access Project (MAP) Senior Vice [...]

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Contact: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202.454.5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of attorneys general from seven states, comprising one-third of the nation’s population, has joined the Department of Justice’s anti-trust suit seeking to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile. The attorneys general are from the states of California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 31, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
andys@mediaaccess.org
202-454-5681
WASHINGTON – Media Access Project Senior Vice President and Policy Director, Andrew Schwartzman, issued the following statement in reaction to the announcement that the United States Department of Justice has filed suit to block AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile.
“This ought not to be a big surprise.  This is arguably [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 18, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
andys@mediaaccess.org
202-454-5681
WASHINGTON – Media Access Project (MAP) has announced that Mera Szendro Bok will join MAP as its Communications and Development Director.  She will assume the position on August 1.
Ms. Szendro Bok has been the Communications and Information Officer of New Media Rights, a non-profit focused [...]

July 7, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
andys@mediaaccess.org
202-454-5681
WASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today ruled in favor of public interest groups in deciding that the FCC acted improperly in attempting to liberalize its rules prohibiting ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in the same market.  In [...]

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June 27, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5861
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today granted the government’s petition for certiorari challenging a lower court decision which held that the Federal Communications Commission’s policies on broadcast “indecency” violated the First Amendment.
Media Access Project (MAP) represents the Center for Creative Voices in Media and the [...]