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Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 1:20pm PST
Implications and Direction of Internet Information Revolution
Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 11:06am PST
KPFA Board Manager Fired; No Word from KPFA Board to Listeners
The capitalist press, the 1/14/06 SF Chronicle, gives the subscribers who pay for KPFA the first official announcement that yet another KPFA station manager has been fired. We never received any official announcement via Email or postcard or any other means from anyone on the KPFA Local Station board that this has taken place. This is gross mismanagement on the part of LSB and must end immediately....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 10:08am PST
SF Bicyclist killed in hit and run PLEASE HELP
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
FCC vs. The League of Women Voters: the Case That Pitted Samuel Alito Against Pacifica
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
The Web: 'Digital home' comes of age
Yeah, right like you'll ever connect your refrigerator to your Internet. Duh....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 11:16am PST
Protest Gov't Hrgs on KPFA Instead of Regular News Programs
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
Rumor has it that Roy Campanella fired by Kpfa Governing board
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
Networking: iPod dominance a mirage?
Evil Microsoft again attacks pure unblemished Apple....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 1:46pm PST
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch
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
Latest News from Neptune
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
Kembrew McLeod Guest on Media Matters
Today's program focuses on Copyright Laws and the Public Domain....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 12:35pm PST
Maverick Media Owns Most of the Major Radio Stations in Sonoma County
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
The NYT's Unconscionable Decision to Sit on the NSA Story for a Year
By LAWRENCE R. VELVEL...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:00am PST
HELP BRING INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEDIA TO MARIN!
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
Anti-Abortion Ads in BART?!?
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
Media New Year's Resolutions for 2006
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
The Web: Women vs. men online
Sexists cannot exploit women online as much as offline....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 1:12pm PST
Media conservatives cited faulty poll to claim popular support for domestic spying program
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
Networking: Convergence comes to China
Filthy money grubbers try to exploit simple Chinese people with rapacious technologies....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 10:46am PST