Colorlines.com: Why is Media Justice Such a Hard Fight? See: Meredith Atwell Baker
I did this illustration forJamilah King’s story “Why is Media Justice Such a Hard Fight? See: Meredith Atwell Baker” on Colorlines.com:
It’s been over a week since Republican FCC Commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker announced that she’s jumping ship to take a high-profile job as a top lobbyist with NBC Universal, just months after working to approve a massive merger between the industry’s biggest content provider and arguably its largest distribution platform. The move was just the latest example of policymakers taking jobs with the companies they are supposed to be regulating, but its brazenness revealed how steep of a hill organizers have had to climb in trying to protect equal access to media platforms for communities of color in recent years.
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