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Media Education Foundation: Challenging media
"The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation." The board of advisors includes: Noam Chomsky, Jeff Cohen, Susan Douglas, Michael Eric Dyson, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Henry Giroux, Todd Gitlin, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Jean Kilbourne, Naomi Klein, Robert W. McChesney, Jack Shaheen, John Stauber, Ellen Wartella, Cornel West, John Edgar Wideman and Sut Jhally is the Executuve Director.