Women own just five percent of commercial broadcast TV stations and six percent of all full-power radio stations. Whenever the FCC allows big media companies to gobble up more stations, it leaves fewer outlets for women and people of color to purchase.
“Media misogyny has reached an all time high, and David Shuster’s remarks on MSNBC about Chelsea Clinton are only the latest example,” says NOW President Kim Gandy.
Where were the women? This was a common cry from the monitors in the National Organization for Women Foundation’s 2008 Feminist Super Bowl Ad Watch.
NOW President Kim Gandy says, “this Sunday the NOW Foundation and feminists across the country will be calling personal fouls on the worst Super Bowl commercials and awarding extra points to the ads that best demonstrate the concept of playing fair.”
On Oct. 31, NOW President Kim Gandy will testify at a FCC hearing in Washington, D.C., on media ownership and the responsibility of TV and radio broadcasters to serve their local communities. Gandy also will speak at the Rally for Better Media outside FCC headquarters prior to the hearing.
Tell the Senate to vote No on the SAVE America Act.