NAACP_Committee & Officer Report Form.doc

The committee on Communications shall: (1) seek to promote media content consistent with fundamental NAACP goals which include the elimination of racial discrimination and the perpetuation of multiracial and multicultural understanding; (2) work to eliminate employment segregation and discrimination in those industries, comprising their communications arts and sciences (radio, telephone, television, motion pictures, newspapers, books, related computer communications, business, cable television); (3) seek to insure black and minority ownership and control of print and electronic media (both hardware and software); (4) monitor local and national media, especially advertising performance; (5) provide the National Office with research and data on those local businesses engaged in communications arts and sciences; and (6) seek to insure that all people have a meaningful right to choose from and have access to a variety of high quality telecommunications goods and services at reasonable costs.