Craig Aaron
News, Ads & Campaigns: Big Picture 01/27/12
Craig Aaron, the president and CEO of freepress.net appeared on The Big Picture to talk about how much money broadcasters are getting to air political ads. The reliable estimate is that $3 billion will be spent on political ads and be paid to broadcasters on this election. Aaron talks about how these ads are misleading, and how the broadcasters don't spend the money to make the election make sense to the American people, but instead get rich by perpetuating a misinformed electorate.
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Free Speech TV roundtable discussion with special guest Craig Aaron of FreePress.net
Democracy Now! Tues. Dec. 21 2010
When Obama was running for office three years ago, he pledged to support the principle of a free and open internet. Today’s pivotal vote will decide on a new set of regulations that critics say will create a two-tiered system for the internet. We speak with Craig Aaron of the media reform group Free Press. Community radio advocates are celebrating a major victory after the Senate approved the Local Community Radio Act on Saturday, one day after its passage in the House. We speak with Hannah Sassaman of the Philadelphia-based Prometheus Radio Project. We speak with leading nuclear disarmament advocate, Jonathan Schell. We play Part II of the debate between feminists Jaclyn Friedman and Naomi Wolf over the sex crimes allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
Keynote: The Future of Journalism
Moderator Craig Aaron reflects on the shifting Denver media landscape in the months since the closing of the Rocky Mt. News in 2009 with a panel that includes Laura Frank, former reporter for the Rocky Mt. News. Colorado Public Television CEO Wick Roland, former state Senator Polly Baca, John Temple, former publisher of the Rocky Mt. News and author David Sirota.
