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	<title><![CDATA[A Kick in the Career: R.I.P. Public Access Television]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-stern/a-kick-in-the-career-rip_b_156880.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Here in Los Angeles, the city rang in the New Year by closing down all of its public access TV studios, signaling an end to homegrown, grass roots production of eclectic and often monumentally weird alternative programming. Cities in Michigan, Illinois and Indiana are also shutting down facilities, and if the amount of locally-based "save public access" postings on the Internet are any indication, the trend is continuing. Of course, there was never any money in it, and now that...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Media]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-01-12T11:55:00-05:00</date_published>
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