Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
163 of 210 
US media reacts to French protests with hatred and fear The US media, not known for following the internal political developments of other countries too closely unless it has a direct impact upon the US, has provided an inordinate amount of ill-tempered commentary on the wave of protests and strikes in France against the introduction of a law that enables employers to fire young workers without cause....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 9:43pm PST
Wireless World: Religious ringtones The wealthy's opinions are celebrated with ringtones....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 12:51pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/31/06 ¡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, Mar 30, 2006 3:55pm PST
Fake Saddam Interview Put Out By MEMRI A bizarre "interview" with imprisoned former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was circulated yesterday by MEMRI TV, a non-profit in Washington DC that specializes in translating and circulating mainly Arab-language materials, selected to display the Arab world in a poor light, to the advantage of Israel....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 9:36am PST
To the Streets! Hispanic Media at the Forefront of Immigration March LOS ANGELES, Calif.— It was the biggest protest in the city’s history, according to the local police department. More than half a million Latinos took to the streets Saturday, March 25 wearing white t-shits, carrying signs and waving American flags, along with flags from their native countries including Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:28pm PST
Worker-friendly or Union-owned Major US Newspapers? It could happen, and soon "I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits. There is a chance something like this will actually happen..."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 4:32pm PST
Subscribe to indybay feeds Indymedia is on the FBI's watch list -- put it on yours too! We've recently cleaned up our javascript news feed to remove duplicate items. Drop a code snippet into your website or blog to add news headlines from indybay, updated every 5 minutes. How-To...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 6:31pm PST
PEG Access in Fresno - Alert! Public Access channel and Community Media Center at risk in proposed Fresno County franchise agreement....
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 10:54am PST
"Loose Change" airs Sunday night, 7pm, Ch. 29 (SF) "Loose Change", Dylan Avery's fine documentary film investigating the events of 9/11, will air this Sunday night, March 26th, 2006, at 7 pm on San Francisco Cable Channel 29....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 9:55pm PST
Wireless World: Wirelessly monitoring ECGs The wealthy beat the poor again by having technology that warns them of a heart attack....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 11:25am PST
A Look at the Lincoln Group and the U.S. Military's Planting of Stories in the Iraqi Press The Pentagon defends its policy of paying Iraqi news organizations to publish pro-American articles secretly written by the U.S. military. Its contractor, the Lincoln Group is being paid over a hundred million dollars to write and plant stories. We speak with reporter Andrew Buncombe of the London Independent and retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 7:09am PST
Islam and globanalisation Until late last month, when Salman Rushdie added his name to those of a few other like-minded souls and signed a statement attacking Muslims for having been outraged by a set of Danish cartoons depicting their prophet with satirical ridicule, something seemed amiss in that whole global uproar, writes Hamid Dabashi*...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 4:57pm PST
US blocks assets of al-Manar The US treasury has frozen the assets of the Lebanese satellite channel al-Manar....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 4:43pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/24/06 ¡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, Mar 23, 2006 4:08pm PST
Al-Jazeera goes English Credited with reviving journalism in the Middle East, Al-Jazeera needs more than a pinch of luck to meet the next big challenge it has set for itself, writes Ayman El-Amir...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 9:24am PST
The Ultimate Scapegoat: Blaming the Media for Bad War News Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights with U.S. media outlets during this war. For the most part, President Bush leaves it to others to scapegoat the media....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 8:59am PST
Culture Jamming. Artists' Television Access Film and Video Festival Call for Entries Submission Categories:
1. General: Shorts (running less than 30 minutes) in all genres and formats.
2. Special category: “Culture Jamming” - Including films with subversive meanings, media hacking, information warfare, terror-art and guerrilla semiotics, public activism opposed to commercialism and corporate imagery that plays with the branded images and icons of consumer culture to make consumers aware of surrounding problems and diverse cultural experiences that warrant their attent...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:24am PST
Judge rejects government demand for Google search terms In a ruling issued Friday, March 17, Judge James Ware denied a demand from the Department of Justice that search giant Google turn over samples of search terms entered into its web site....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 6:48am PST
WILL-AM Media Matters Website is Down; Calls Unanswered At this time every Sunday, WILL-AM from the University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana) broadcasts Robert W. McChesney's weekly program about the Media. Its webpage with links to streaming audio is currently inaccessible on the internet....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 11:12am PST
163 of 210