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[Jeff Shippen <jeffshippen AT bluebottle.com>]

Thought you guys would be interested in this!

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• From: "Downhill Battle - Action Lists" <action AT downhillbattle.org>
• To: jeffshippen AT bluebottle.com
• Subject: Payola is going down - end the bribing of radio stations forever
• Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:25:32 -0500

Hi everyone,

The battle to end payola is heating up; New York attorney general Elliot
Spitzer has been suing radio stations, members of Congress are pushing for
new laws against payola, ånd the FCC is under fire for not enforcing existing
laws. Major record labels bribe radio stations to play their songs, and the
results are awful both for independent musicians and the quality of
mainstream radio. But now they're running scared.

Free Press, an organization we have always been big fans of, has set things
up so you can push Congress, the FCC, and offending radio stations to end
payola. It takes 5 minutes.

Tell the FCC to enforce existing laws and stop tolerating payola:
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/payola

Tell senators that they should co-sponsor Senator Feingold's legislation to
stop payola:
http://www.freepress.net/act/feingoldpayola

Find radio stations in your area that are under investigation for payola
http://www.freepress.net/payola/map.php

Free Press also has a bunch of great information about payola. The home base
for their payola campaign is here:
http://freepress.net/payola/

Also, I should add that, for a while at Downhill Battle we've been thinking
about bringing in some volunteers to help keep the community active. We need
a couple good writers, and somebody techy with basic PHP knowledge. You
won't be buried behind the scenes, you'll be working on the parts of the site
that get seen by thousands of people every day. Email me if you're
interested: hw AT downhillbattle.org (include writing samples, or info on your
tech experience).

Thanks everybody,
Holmes Wilson
Downhill Battle




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