Is Radio One Founder Cathy Hughes Misusing The Public Airwaves To Influence Radio Legislation?

Summary: Paul Porter knows the media industry; he has worked with media outlets like NBC, BET, and AOL Music among others. He speaks to students about media topics like the relationship between race and the media. Paul Porter also works and writes for Industry Ears and he has been writing and speaking on local radio stations about HR 848 Performance Rights Act. In a piece titled "Sharpton, Joyner, Baisden and Hughes sucker Black Radio", Porter writes; "It is time that broadcasters start telling the truth. The recent flood of one sided information by radio on the pending “HR 848 – Performance Rights Act” is uncovering a much larger problem…. Radio One, Founder Cathy Hughes has rediscovered her microphone after a ten year hiatus. While shaping the Performance Rights Act as an end to Black Radio, Hughes and her staff have done a great job of concealing the facts”. Industry Ears is a “consortium of entertainment and broadcast industry professionals with more than 60 years of experience dedicated to revealing truth and promoting justice in media” with a mission aimed at “addressing and finding solutions to disparities in media that negatively impact individuals and communities.” Read more at http://www.industryears.com. Tune in today as we talk to Mr. Porter about the principle parties in HR 848 and what passage of this legislation means for recording artist and if there can ever truly be an end to Black Radio.