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BTL:U.S. Media Fails to Hold Government Accountable in War and..
...During Electoral Campaigns~ Interview with Robert McChesney, founder and president of the media reform group Free Press, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 6:43am PDT
California Public Defenders Association Honors Public Radio's Amy Goodman with 'Gideon Awa
California Public Defenders Association Honors Public Radio's Amy Goodman with 'Gideon Award'; CPDA Awards Next Week...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 11:39pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/22/05 ¡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. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 4:06pm PDT
National Irish Freedom Committee speak out against fascist targeting of Irish Americans
Fascist targeting of Irish Americans...
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 12:52pm PDT
CSN's John Patrick updates on China, media criticism
CSN's John Patrick updates on China, media criticism...
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 1:48am PDT
Radio Drama from free radio nashville (audio/mpeg 8.5MB)
zombies and fcc...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 12:40pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/15/05 ¡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. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 5:50pm PDT
New York Times Supports McCarthyite Witch Hunt
Informed Comment...
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 2:00pm PDT
Writer Against Censorship: Activist Kicks Off Campaign to Stop Arbitrary IP Bans
Film Buff has contributed time, money and articles to Indymedia. Buff announced today that "censorship, sadly, is running wild" at IMC-PDX. "Film Buff" contends that he was blocked from posting at PDX through a technical procedure known as IP-Banning, which prevents him from posting anything to PDX.
"At first I thought it was a mistake" he said, "but they ignored my requests for so long I started to realize it must be deliberate." Not content to see...
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 4:06pm PDT
Updates From Iraq: American Media...
You wake up in the morning. Brush your teeth. Splash the sleep out of your eyes and head for the kitchen for a cup of coffee or tea and whatever is available for breakfast.
You wander to the living room and search for the remote control. It is in its usual place- stuck inexplicably between the sofa cushions. You turn on the television and stand there flipping from one channel to the other, looking for a news brief or something that will sum up what happened during those six hours you slept...
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 10:34am PDT
FBI investigating incidents on Infoshop News and Flag.blackened.net
A message from the administrator of Flag.blackened.net concerning two FBI subpoenas directed at sites hosted by the Flag server. One of these sites is Infoshop News....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 11:09am PST
Tad Hirsch on Different Bits (audio/mpeg 28.3MB)
Straight from the labs of MIT comes the voice of Tad Hirsch, activist, inventor, artist.
A frequent collaborator with the institute for applied autonomy and grassroots advocacy groups, Tad works to subvert ubiquitous communications technologies of the corporate state. From txtmob, tech-glue of the RNC protests, to iSee, an inverse surveillance system, Tad's projects tangibly empower....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 1:21am PST
Nat'l Conference for Media Reform: Last chance for early discount
Your presence couldn't be more crucial. Over the next couple of years, policymakers will make decisions that will determine the future of our media. Industry lobbyists are dedicating millions of dollars to lobby, litigate and lie their way toward rules that will bring Big Media more power and profits. We need your help to educate and mobilize millions of citizens to take on powerful corporations and defend the public interest.
Join us in St. Louis on May 13-15 to gather momentum for this f...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 5:23pm PST
M19 Anti-war demo pics from Australia
First pictures from the global day of action...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 9:44pm PST
Kevin Martin Appointed FCC Chairman, Ken Ferree Named to Leading Post at CPB
President Bush named conservative commissioner Kevin Martin to head the Federal Communications Commission. Separately, Ken Ferree was named as Chief Operating Officer for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We speak with Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy....
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 6:22am PST
Bush administration defends use of covert propaganda in US
The Bush administration last week instructed US government agencies to ignore a ruling by the comptroller general of the United States barring the dissemination of “covert propaganda.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 10:03pm PST
Move On Moves To the Right?
Media Activist Danny Schecter Notes Odd Behavior at Move On...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 1:35pm PST
How Government Agencies Produce Pre-Packaged TV Segments the Media Runs as News
According to a major expose in The New York Times, federal agencies under the Bush administration - from the State Department to Agriculture to the Transportation Security Administration - have been producing hundreds of pre-packaged TV segments that have been broadcast on local stations as real news. We speak with John Stauber of PR Watch, which has been tracking the rise of government and corporate-produced news for years....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:30am PST
"When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Democracy"
We speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Laurie Garrett, who resigned from Newsday and ripped the paper's parent company, the Tribune Company, for putting profit over quality journalism. Garrett says, “If you trim back your staff, if you trim back your costs, and you put out a lower quality product, your stock value goes up. All across the news industry, we have seen this same phenomenon."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:29am PST
Blogger Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison in Iran
Iranian blogger and human rights activist Arash Sigarchi was
sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of "espionage and
insulting the country's leaders." His harsh sentence, given by a
Revolutionary Court on February 22, 2005, sends a stark message
to other bloggers and independent government critics in Iran....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 9:54am PST