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textSF Bicyclist killed in hit and run PLEASE HELP by cindy
A hit-and-run motorist ignored a red light early Thursday and killed a 26-year-old bicyclist, police said....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 12:21pm PST
textFCC vs. The League of Women Voters: the Case That Pitted Samuel Alito Against Pacifica by Democracy Now (reposted)
On the final day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Capitol Hill, we look at the 1984 case of that pitted Samuel Alito against Pacifica Radio. The case - known as the FCC v. League of Women Voters - centered on the constitutionality of a law that prohibited the airing of editorials by any public radio and TV outlet that received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We speak with the attorney in the case, Frederic Woocher....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:11am PST
textThe Web: 'Digital home' comes of age by UPI
Yeah, right like you'll ever connect your refrigerator to your Internet. Duh....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 11:16am PST
textProtest Gov't Hrgs on KPFA Instead of Regular News Programs by +
Protest the endless government hearings on KPFA, 94.1 FM, instead of regular programs for which the subscribers pay by calling 510.848.6767, option 3 for listener comment. The summary on the 6 p.m. news is sufficient; this is an outrageous insult to the subscribers to cancel the programs for which we pay for the endless bantering, chatter and procedural garbage that constitute all government hearings and the commentary....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 6:33am PST
textRumor has it that Roy Campanella fired by Kpfa Governing board by Viva KPFA !
Roy Campanella was reportly fired Jan.7 by a 17-5 majority of the stations's board . Why is unclear ....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 4:03pm PST
textNetworking: iPod dominance a mirage? by UPI
Evil Microsoft again attacks pure unblemished Apple....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 1:46pm PST
text Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch by UK Independent
Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 1:36pm PST
imageLatest News from Neptune
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by c/o Illinois also
News from Neptune is a radio program about the news of the week and its coverage by the media. News from Neptune is hosted by C. G. Estabrook and P. Mueth and produced by J. B. Nicholson-Owens at the studios of WEFT, 90.1 FM, in Champaign, Illinois USA. The show is named in honor of Noam Chomsky, who said, "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 12:55pm PST
imageKembrew McLeod Guest on Media Matters
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by c/o Univ. of Illinois
Today's program focuses on Copyright Laws and the Public Domain....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 12:35pm PST
textMaverick Media Owns Most of the Major Radio Stations in Sonoma County by Tom Paine
MAVERICK MEDIA owns many of the radio stations in Sonoma county. Isn't this the same part of Maverick Media Inc which was paid almost $41 million Bush-Cheney campaign to produce fake news and other propaganda?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:08am PST
textThe NYT's Unconscionable Decision to Sit on the NSA Story for a Year by CounterPunch (reposted)
By LAWRENCE R. VELVEL...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:00am PST
documentHELP BRING INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEDIA TO MARIN!
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by david mathison
Media Action Marin is trying to create an independent, non-profit Community Media Center that will allow people in Marin to create, control and broadcast their own programs over cable’s PEG channels (Public, Education and Government). The next meeting of the Marin Telecommunications Agency (MTA) will be on Wednesday, Jan 11, 2006 6-8pm, Larkspur Town Hall, 400 Magnolia, Larkspur, CA. Please come and voice your support for independent, non-profit community media in Marin! For more, visit http:...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 12:18am PST
textAnti-Abortion Ads in BART?!? by Alito, writing on the wall & countin the days
Surely you've noticed by now; these ads were prominent on each of ten train cars at 3 p.m. in downtown San Francisco today....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 3:21pm PST
imageMedia New Year's Resolutions for 2006
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by Normon Solomon (Truthout Perspective Repost)
Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, tweaks some media bastions of contemporary hubris. (links added as a suggestion by reposter)...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 1:26pm PST
textThe Web: Women vs. men online by UPI
Sexists cannot exploit women online as much as offline....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 1:12pm PST
textMedia conservatives cited faulty poll to claim popular support for domestic spying program by Media Matters for America
Conservative media figures have defended the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program by citing a Rasmussen poll saying 64 percent of Americans believe "the National Security Agency [should] be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States." But the key issue, which the poll misrepresents, is not whether surveillance of terrorism suspects should take place at all -- something a...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 6:55am PST
textNetworking: Convergence comes to China by UPI
Filthy money grubbers try to exploit simple Chinese people with rapacious technologies....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 10:46am PST
text"Old Half-Witted Sheep": A New York Times Editorial Contemplates Iraq by ALEXANDER COCKBURN (reposted)
Nearly a week before the Times' editorial writer squared up to the topic, informed observers had scrutinized the preliminary results of the Dember 15 poll in Iraq and noted that they confirmed pre-election presentiments. For example, writing on the CounterPunch website five days before Christmas, Patrick Cockburn concluded succinctly "The election marks the final shipwreck of American and British hopes of establishing a pro-western secular democracy in a united Iraq. Islamic fundamentali...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 9:38am PST
textThe Web: Fifteen years of browsing by UPI
Professor invents the Internet fifteen years ago for capitalist pigs....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 1:20pm PST
textWireless World: Feds vacate airwaves by UPI
Government sucks up to capitalists....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 12:09pm PST
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