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Help Deep Dish and the WTI
Help Deep Dish TV To Provide Global Television Uplink of World Tribunal on Iraq June 24th-27th, 2005 from Istanbul, Turkey...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:29am PDT
As CPB Faces Massive Funding Cuts, A Look Back at the National Media Reform Conference
The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote today on drastic cuts to both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Representative Ralph Regula's proposal would eliminate $100 million in federal funding to CPB and phase out the existance of PBS. For a look at media under fire, we turn to the National Conference on Media Reform....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 9:12am PDT
Big Mac Attack
Interview with Dave Steel and Helen Steel, subject of the new documentary McLibel, from NYC Indymedia's biweeklyn newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:36pm PDT
One, two, many Mclibels
Review of recent relase of recent release McLibel, from NYC Indymedia's biweekly newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:34pm PDT
Stop Evil Funding Cuts to Public Broadcasting!
Contact your US Representatives to Stop Evil Funding Cuts to Public Broadcasting!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 9:42am PDT
WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA
Downing Street Memo in particular; Media coverage in general...
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 8:55am PDT
Update on Flag and Infoshop.org
The server hosting Infoshop.org, Flag.blackened.net, and related websites and email lists has been offline since Monday, June 6....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 8:02pm PDT
The Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference is right around the corner: June 17-19.
This is the 7th year that hundreds of zinesters, radio pirates,
copwatchers, podcasters, community journalists, hip hop heads,
librarians and more will be gathering in Bowling Green, Ohio. If
you're building alternative media, you should be there, too....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 11:57am PDT
More Fake News from Big Pharma
Pharmaceutical makers have created fake news segments and given them to local TV stations to air as news programming. Such fake stories under their deceptive news-like camouflage are part of a marketing strategy aimed an unsuspecting consumers...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 4:36pm PDT
Media quickly drops stories critical of Bush administration
Media quickly drops stories critical of Bush administration...
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 9:53am PDT
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Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 11:34am PDT
Who Should Be Held Accountable For The Media's Mistakes Ahead of the Iraq Invasion?
Last week the White House charged that "people lost their lives" because of an inaccurate Newsweek report on the desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo. Media analysts Norman Solomon and Michael Massing discuss government pressure on journalists and the media's coverage in the lead up to the Iraq war....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 12:56pm PDT
Tell the FCC: stop covert commercial propaganda on TV
On May 25th, Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein gave a rousing speech about the “most pernicious symptoms” of “increasing commercialization of American media,” including product placement and corporate shills in “news” programming.
Email all four FCC commissioners today to require TV stations to make “clear and prominent” disclosure of all covert commercial propaganda, including product placement and corporate shills....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 7:16am PDT
Media Matters launches "Hands Off Public Broadcasting" campaign
Since the signing of the Public Broadcasting Act more than 35 years ago, Americans have relied on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and other public broadcasting outlets to provide quality programs and independent journalism free from political or commercial pressure....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 12:32am PDT
Rightwing hacker nailed: Black Hat Down
Clorox the g00n thought he was a badass hacker. He wasn't badass enough. He's now been outed as Brett Chance from Plano, TX, suspended from his college, and faces potential criminal prosecution....
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 11:35am PDT
Media Reform or Revolution?
Report on the National Conference on Media Reform from a longtime media activist's perspective....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 10:41pm PDT
Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias
In his first public address since leaving PBS six months ago, journalist Bill Moyers responds to charges by Kenneth Tomlinson - the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - of liberal bias and revelations that Tomlinson hired a consultant to monitor the political content of Moyers' PBS show "Now." We spend the hour playing an excerpt of Moyers' closing address at the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, Missouri....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:24am PDT
Rupert Murdoch Wins Shame Award
Ethically Challenged Media Mogul is the First Inductee in The Big Media Hall Of Shame...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 12:25pm PDT
Bill Moyers Speech In Moments
KPFA 94.1 Free Speech Radio is planning to air Bill Moyers speech about Media Reform...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 9:38am PDT
A ‘Right-Wing Coup’ at PBS & the CPB?
On Wednesday, Reps. David Obey (D-WI) and John Dingell (D-MI) called for an investigation of the Corporation Public Broadcasting. This comes following accusations that the CPB has been largely taken over by conservatives who are influencing programming and hiring decisions. Obey requested that the Inspector General for the CPB, investigate whether the CPB is violating the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 that prohibits interference by federal officials over the content and distribution of publ...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 9:20am PDT