I know that the Julien guy -> Harvard w/ Obama, aide to marxist judge Abner Mikva, aide to Schumer, etc, on the FCC worked for billionaire Diller who just sold some stuff to Comcast. There are many facets and even more greedy people involved.
Free Press is a “national nonpartisan organization working to increase public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies which will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong noncommercial sector.” Its founder and president is Robert McChesney.
Executive Director - Josh Silver
Salim Muwakkil - Advisory Board
Craig Aaron - Communications Director
Funding
Mobilizing Media Reform “was made possible with generous support from:
Acra Foundation
Glaser Progress Foundation
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Otto Haas Charitable Trust
Overbrook Foundation
Park Foundation
Quixote Foundation
Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
and many individual donors.”
(source: enclosed brochure)
Ford Foundation
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Press
From the lefties at sourcewatch...
Salim Muwakkil - Advisory Board?