Anti-consumerism sites

February 18, 2004 Off By leigh

Courtesy of Jill, I’ve been checking out Adbusters a print and web publication which is perhaps one of the best examples of culture jamming advocacy. One of the sites they reference is the historically informed MediaCarta, a declaration and petition for intellectual rights in our sea of corporate controlled media.


Courtesy of Jill, I’ve been checking out Adbusters a print and web publication which is perhaps one of the best examples of culture jamming advocacy. One of the sites they reference is the historically informed MediaCarta, a declaration and petition for intellectual rights in our sea of corporate controlled media.

MediaCarta’s demand is for the people to reassert their ownership of the broadcasting spectrum and medium and demand public access to information channels which have become dangerously limited to the voices of the corporate sanctioned. They propose the radical, wonderful concept of requiring all broadcasting corporations to devote 2 minutes of every hour to public access broadcasting.

Coming from Australia, a country that still has a surviving public access electronic media, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, has given me an insight into just how controlled the U.S. public is in it’s formation of opinions, policies and politics. The ABC was patterned after the British Broadcasting Commission. Unfortunately the BBC has recently been beheaded because it dared to publish the truth about the lies Blair and Bush were attempting to force onto a disbelieving public.