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Don't Give Me No Lip, "What's wrong with Mimicking Corporate Media"
-- A response to Jennifer Whitney's article on indymedia, which can be found here
The spirit of critique and wanting to help move indymedia forward is something I really appreciate. However, Jennifer Whitney's article, "The Good, The Bad, & (sic) The Ugly: "What's the Matter with Indymedia?" is one part critique, and two parts personal axe grinding, three parts "Ra! Ra! UC, NYC, 501-c(3) IMC" . Beyond the fact that the article is so deliberately misleading in ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 11:39am PDT
New Latin American Television Network Telesur Officially Launched
Some are calling it Latin America's al Jazeera. This weekend, a coalition of leftist governments, media outlets and movements, led by Venezuela, officially launched Telesur - a new Latin America-wide satellite TV network. We go to Caracas to speak with Andres Izarra, Venezuela's communications minister and president of Telesur as well as attorney Eva Golinger....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:18am PDT
Welcome Telesur: Notes on Media from Below
The same Commercial Media mercenaries who spent recent years trying to
convince the public that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is not
popular
(and therefore illegitimate) have now changed their tune....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 10:40pm PDT
CONSUMERS TRAMPLED AS TELECOM INDUSTRY RUNS AMOK
As Congress prepares to rewrite the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a new wave of merger mania threatens US democratic process....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 2:31pm PDT
FCC Raids San Diego MicroPower 96.9 (audio/mpeg 16.4MB)
Interview with Bob Ugly about the theft of tools of communication by an agency of the Corporate State...
Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 6:13pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/22/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 4:35pm PDT
NOTICIAS shut- down through blood and fire/Despojan NOTICIAS a sangre y fuego
Groups of police, urban paramilitaries, and members of the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants (CROC- a PRI paramilitary front group) initiate an assault on the NOTICIAS facilities and violently removed the 31 sequestered workers
Translated by: Ito/
Grupos de porros, policías y de la CROC consuman asalto a las instalaciones y desalojan violentamente a los 31 trabajadores secuestrados...
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 3:34pm PDT
subMedia releases first DVD/Zine on Bit Torrent
Independent Media Group subMedia (http://submediatv.com) has released its first DVZ (DVD/Zine) ‘‘Molotov’’ as a free download on the Bittorrent network. subMedia founder Franklin Lopez made the announcement last week, after the last ‘hard copy’ of ‘‘Molotov’’ was sold to a costumer in Norway....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 8:08am PDT
Disney KABC Radio in Los Angeles Targets Mexicans
Disney KABC Radio in Los Angeles Targets Mexicans...
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 1:40am PDT
Fox's Brit Hume: my first thought when I heard about the London attack "Hmmm, time to buy"
During Fox anchor Brit Hume’s coverage of the London bombings, Hume shifted to an economic perspective of the attacks—not normally a devious form of coverage in a capitalist world. But instead of looking at the economic significance of the attacks on world markets, Hume invoked his own stock portfolio: “I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, ‘Hmmm, ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2005 1:54pm PDT
Fox whore John Gibson on London attacks: "blow up Paris, and who cares?"
On the day that London was selected to host the 2012 Olympics, Fox commentator John Gibson responded on "The Radio Factor" by boldly saying that Paris should have gotten the bid because "it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares?" The next day, when London was attacked, Gibson reaffirmed this atrocious claim in his Fox column, "My Word," saying "This is why I thought th...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2005 1:48pm PDT
CPB's Tomlinson Comes Under Fire For Secretly Monitoring Political Content
The head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Tomlinson, came under fire from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) at a Senate panel Monday for his decision to secretly monitor public television and radio programs, and about other controversial moves that have led to calls for his resignation. We play an excerpt of the hearing....
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 7:36am PDT
UK Indymedia Coverage Of London Blasts
07-07-2005 11:14 Five London tube stations and at least one bus have been targeted by bombs. Two fatalities confirmed - some sources suggest 20+. Entire Transport system shut down. Tony Blair returning to London from Gleneagles....
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2005 5:01am PDT
Santa Cruz Indymedia Newsletter July 4, 2005
SANTA CRUZ INDYMEDIA UPDATE, JULY 4, 2005...
Posted: Mon, Jul 4, 2005 7:35pm PDT
Race and Natrional Origin in Pacifica Radio Why Should You Care?
Turn on your radio. Spin the dial. Companies like clear channel and Cox own well in excess of 3000 broadcast outlets. That's how most of us get our information. Pacifica exists to counter that. It has only 5 stations, but in major cities, With $400,000,000 in assests and 16 million in yearly budget the foundation is the single most valuable asset of the left. Under one vision it would move to the right, under another it would recruit activists to actually create media....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 8:11am PDT
Bill Moyers On The Radical Right Undermining Of The Independence Of Public Broadcasting
With the increasing politicization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the threat of funding cuts in Congress, public media in this country is facing a serious crisis. We spend the hour with legendary journalist Bill Moyers - the subject of much of the pressure brought by CPB chair Kenneth Tomlinson....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 5:10am PDT
EFF Publishes Legal Guide for Bloggers
Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes
publish information that other people don't want published.
You might, for example, publish something that someone
considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's
under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the
alleged crimes of a candidate for public office....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 1:44pm PDT
PBS TV President Warns CPB Funding Cuts Will Cause Spiral of Death for Public Broadcasting
On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee voted to drastically cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We host a roundtable discussion on the continuing fight over public broadcasting in this country with the presidents of two PBS stations as well as Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:18am PDT