Press Release

PDX FREEMEDIA Community Relations

For Immediate Release

Community Activists Band Together to Keep Watch on Local Media

Portland, Oregon (November 29, 2010) – Media activist Ron Morgan announced today the creation of PDX FREEMEDIA, an awareness group focused on raising awareness of the corporate control of Portland’s mass media environment. PDX FREEMEDIA will give the residents of Portland the knowledge and several fun, specialized, webtools to get a closer look at the giant corporations that dominate the local media scene.

“My team and I are thrilled by this opportunity to give Portlanders the chance to see behind the curtain of our local media machine,” Said Ron Morgan, Executive Director of PDX FREEMEDIA. “The people of Portland take pride in their support of local businesses. That extends to what they listen to on the radio and what they read in their newspapers. The media industry marketers know this too, and they’ve cloaked many of their big-budget outlets in a veil of “local-ness” that is just plain false. “

PDX FREEMEDIA will leverage the latest web-based technology and mobile apps to give the people of Portland a “toolkit” to analyze their own media consumption. From their blog at PDXFREEMEDIA.blogspot.org, activists will spread the truth behind Portland’s “local” media via Twitter feed, Facebook updates, blogs and podcasts.

PDX FREEMEDIA will also branch out into mobile activism through a development contract with The Toy Lounge, an iPhone/Droid app design house specializing in original apps for non-profit organizations.

PDX FREEMEDIA is a local group of media activists focused on returning control of Portland’s media scene to the individual citizen. By empowering each citizen to filter out the messages of big media corporations in favor of local options, PDX FREEMEDIA hopes to improve the diversity of information, entertainment and culture within the greater PDX Metroplex.

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Contact:

Jeff Wayne

Media Relations

(555)-555-5555

presskit@pdxfreemedia.org

Aim For The Head

There is no more room in hell. The dead are walking the earth. The dead are producing TV shows, making music and filming movies. The dead are now defining life. And so many of the living are shockingly ok with this.

If we are not creating art, not experiencing real life, real love, real beauty, not learning and seeing the world and chasing dreams, then we have been bit and are infected, ready to join the dead. Your brain may still have electric motion, and your heart still beating, but it is pointless, it is not living.

The new zombie is here, making nothing new, never seeing beauty, just consuming the art of others. The new zombie claims "reality" and the living began to buy it.

But there are survivors left. There is still life.

We are the future. The new thinkers, the new creators and doers and dreamers. We will not stand by and consume the vomit of the unimaginative. We will not laugh at your stupid jokes, we will not sink to your ideal of beauty. We do not accept your reality and we are here to make our own. To reclaim this world. Reclaim our media.
We are here to end you.

Aim for the head my friends, we are all in this together.

Our Mission

Our Mission Statement

- To promote independent thought and give people the tools to actively challenge the corporate media sphere of Portland, Oregon.