Public Access

Media Minutes: February 13, 2009

4:59 minutes (4.57 MB)

Community television advocates have asked the FCC to investigate AT&T's treatment of public, educational and governmental channels on its U-verse cable TV system. And with tools for mapping and data gathering getting easier to use, people are taking government transparency into their own hands.

Prelude & Attack


A member, Leonard Tate, of the Atlanta public access contractors Board, incites violation of the law; at the very next meeting the Chair of the Board, Jeanette Foreman, attacks a public access producer who would not turn off his camera.