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US Embassy in Azerbaijan to give money to media promoting US image A project monitoring Azerbaijani media – newspapers, radio and TV – for distinguished examples of journalism in the following subject areas: reporting on U.S. policies; U.S.-Azerbaijan relations; international affairs; domestic affairs; investigative journalism; beat reporting; editorials or commentaries. The winners in each category will be selected in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 5:28pm PST
Victims of Prostitution Reveal Truth about 'The Players Ball' State Rep. Karen Yarbrough, Community Leaders Gather to Protest Annual Gathering That Glorifies Abuse of Women
12/3/2005 9:00:00 AM
To: Metro and Assignment desks
Contact: Samir Goswami of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, 773-301-8925...
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 8:02am PST
A Reply to Rick Edmonds’ “As Blogs and Citizen Journalism Grow, Where's the News?” 
By Edward Campbell
The Publisher
SEATTLE, Dec. 2 (Al-Masakin)--True enough. But many of us didn't get into the nifty old blogging and citizen or independent journalism because we wanted to stay there. We got into these things because economic or political factors closed the door to professional journalism to us....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 8:57pm PST
IRNA head stresses on importance of information in modern world ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 6:54pm PST
The Iraqi press is neither free, nor even Iraqi. "In fact, paying off the Iraqi media to run good news mirrors what the Bush administration has been doing at home."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 4:52pm PST
US Scolded Over Bribes to Iraqi Papers An American media expert blasted a US military program to secretly pay Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by US soldiers to polish the tarnished image of the US occupation of the oil-rich country....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:10pm PST
Israelis arrest Aljazeera journalist A journalist working for Aljazeera.net has been arrested by Israeli forces from the occupied West Bank....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 2:59pm PST
subMedia seeks content for second issue of ¡Molotov! 
Independent Media Group subMedia (submediatv.com) is looking for writings, films, digital art and music for the second issue of its multimedia DVZ (DVD/Zine) ¡Molotov!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 12:39pm PST
The Wall Street Journal and the case of Jose Padilla On November 25 the Wall Street Journal, following the Justice Department’s announcement of a criminal indictment against Jose Padilla, published an editorial supporting the Bush administration’s assertion of virtual police-state powers to seize US citizens and detain them indefinitely in military jails, stripping them of all legal recourse to contest their imprisonment....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:20am PST
Probe exposes criminal methods in Republican right takeover of US Public TV A report issued by the inspector general of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) reveals that its former chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, violated federal laws in his efforts to refashion public radio and television as propaganda organs for the Republican right and the Bush administration. The report suggests that the entire CPB board was to one degree or another complicit in Tomlinson’s actions....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:17am PST
When Telco Pricing Info Dries Up Beastly phone companies hide rate increases....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 2:57pm PST
The Web: Supreme Court tackles 'trolls' Capitalists turn on themselves trying to destroy patent rights...
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 1:22pm PST
An apology to the editors of this site As you may have noticed, I've been commenting here a great deal lately. While my intentions were to assist in turning down the heat in the comments area, I'm also concerned that if I continue, I'm going to become part of the information clog on this part of the site. As such, I'm bowing out, and please accept my apologies if my attempts have made your work more difficult, rather than less. As I said on another thread, throw cold water on me if I step in again....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 7:34am PST
Osama Bill O'Reilly threatens Baghdad by the Bay (video/quicktime 11.4MB) Terrorist Alert in Union Square! Two-minute QTmovie. 11MB....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 5:12am PST
12/4 Indybay Meeting in Berkeley Sunday, December 4th at 5:00pm at the La Peña Cultural Center...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 11:17pm PST
12/1: KPFA Labor Collective Forum: Change To Win (CTW) Convention & Sutter Hospital Strike Thursday, December 1 at 7 PM - The KPFA Labor Collective will present video documentaries and discussion about the September 27 founding convention of the Change To Win (CTW) Federation. Also a report on the Sutter Hospital Strike. New College of California, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 10:28pm PST
Don’t let corporate raiders liquidate the fourth estate "Whether you subscribe or not, the newspaper is an essential democratic institution, affecting everyone in the region. Newspapers empower civic participation. They set the public agenda by digging up much of the content seen on local TV news, radio, cable and the Web.
News has the power to define reality. It is unlike any other product traded on Wall Street."...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 2:33pm PST
FORMER BLACK PANTHER POLITICAL PRISONER
Larry Pinkney on Bill Mandel 
FORMER BLACK PANTHER POLITICAL PRISONER
LARRY PINKNEY TELLS IT LIKE IT IS...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 1:46pm PST
"Power of Nightmares" (Pt 2) airs Tues. Nov. 29 at 8:00 pm on Ch. 29 (SF) "The Power of Nightmares" (Part 2) will air again tonite, Tues. Nov. 29th at 8:00 pm on San Francisco public access Channel 29. Don't miss it!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 1:09pm PST
Did Bush Really Want to Bomb the Arabic TV Network's Headquarters in 2004? The Arabic satellite network Al Jazeera continues to search for answers over reports President Bush wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha. We speak with Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill about the Bush administration's attacks on Al Jazeera and Dima Tahboub, the widow of Al Jazeera Baghdad reporter, Tareq Ayoub, who was killed April 8th, 2003 when the U.S. military bombed the network's office in Iraq. She is considering suing the US government for her husband's death....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 12:51pm PST
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