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CPB Report Charges Former Chair Tomlinson with Ethics Violations The results of a 6-month internal investigation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) were made public Thursday, exposing political interference by Kenneth Tomlinson, former CPB chairman. The investigation also uncovered emails between Tomlinson and White House staff that raises questions about the hiring of the new CPB President. We speak with Tim Karr of Free Press....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 10:34pm PST
Networking: Feds calls BlackBerry essential Federal government tries to take control of all Blackberry devices....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 5:19pm PST
The Web: Chinese economy facing IT threats Now that they've abandoned the safety of socialism, they've faced the problems of rogue capitalism....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 1:37pm PST
STOP HATE RADIO - Deny Clear Channel/KNEW's license renewal! On 11/8/05, Bill O'Reilly went on KNEW-910AM and used the public airwaves to condone a terrorist strike on San Francisco. He then suggested Al Qaeda specifically blow up Coit Tower - which is dedicated as a memorial to fallen firefighters.
TAKE ACTION NOW - DENY KNEW'S LICENSE RENEWAL: Go to http://www.bethemedia.org to print, sign and mail an Informal Objection to the FCC and the Station Owner before November 30, 2005....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 11:49am PST
LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer The Los Angeles Times newspaper last week announced that it was firing longtime columnist Robert Scheer. Scheer has been at the Times for 30 years and was one of the most progressive voices at the paper. In recent years, his columns took on the Bush Administration and its justifications for the invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 6:36am PST
Help Infoshop support DIY journalists Independent media isn't possible without dedicated DIY journalists doing reporting the old-fashioned way. People still have to get out where things are happening in order to fully explain the what, why, when, who, and how of events. Infoshop News, like a growing number of alternative media projects, is committed to supporting this new movement of
independent reporters, journalists, writers, and bloggers....
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2005 4:05pm PST
Jihad Unspun Quits PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 14--(Al-Masakin) Al-Qaeda disinformation hack Khadija Abdul Qahaar, publisher of Jihad Unspun, called it quits Nov. 7. In her farewell address she blamed the lack of support from the Muslim Umma in general, and from the Ulema in particular, for the failure of her Al-Qaeda driven enterprise....
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2005 2:00pm PST
Uzbekistan: Journalist Assaulted After Reporting on Massacre 
An independent journalist in Uzbekistan was
ambushed and assaulted on Monday by a group of unidentified men, the latest
attack in a worsening environment for government critics since the May 13
massacre in Andijan, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2005 8:43am PST
Wall Street Journal defends torture The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has again come forward as the mouthpiece of the most criminal and ruthless sections of the American ruling elite. The newspaper’s lead editorial on November 12, “A ‘Tortured’ Debate,” constitutes an unambiguous defense of torture as an indispensable instrument of American policy....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 9:23pm PST
CALLING MEDIA ACTIVISTS! Help build a global, non-profit news network. SF Meeting on Monday, November 14th (6pm) to start a Bay Area group to help build Independent World Television.
Coffe to the people - 1206 Masonic @ Haight...
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 12:30pm PST
News from Neptune: The Latest Show 
News from Neptune
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
—Noam Chomsky...
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 12:29am PST
Fox News talk-show host suggests U.S. shouldn't stop terrorists from blowing up Coit tower Conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly is ready to scratch San Francisco off the map of the United States. Gone. Coit Tower? Terrorists can blow it up, and the rest of the country shouldn't care....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 11:00pm PST
Burying the lies on Iraq war: Judith Miller and the New York Times make a deal The deal announced by the New York Times Thursday granting a severance package to its senior correspondent Judith Miller and acceding to various conditions demanded by her lawyers represents one more tawdry episode in the newspaper’s deception of its readers on the war in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:29pm PST
At Pentagon's Request the Washington Post Refuses To Report Location Of Secret CIA Jails We speak with Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives on the paper's decision to abide by a Pentagon request not to name which European nations house these secret facilities. Kornbluh compares this decision to the New York Times' refusal to report on details of the U.S. invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in 1961....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:34am PST
Former US public broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson resigns in disgrace Right-winger Kenneth Tomlinson resigned from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) November 3, after a report by the agency’s inspector general sharply criticized his performance. Tomlinson has been at the center of efforts to transform public broadcasting into a mouthpiece for the Bush administration....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:24am PST
Latest News From Neptune Available In Free Format Audio 
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
—Noam Chomsky...
Posted: Sun, Nov 6, 2005 6:25pm PST
Unplug Clear Channel Rally (audio/mpeg 10.8MB) Media Alliance and the Youth Media Council rallied in front of Clear Channel headquarters in San Francisco on Friday, October 28, part of a campaign to pressure the FCC to not renew licenses for several Bay Area Clear Channel stations...
Posted: Sun, Nov 6, 2005 12:36pm PST
11/13: Indybay Meeting- Discussion About Regional Pages Sunday, November 13th at 5pm at the ACME Northern California (http://www.acme-norcal.org) offices in San Francisco (1550 Market St., a 0.6 mile walk from the Civic Center BART)....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:09pm PST
Oxford Indymedia reply and counter point As you can see from these guidelines, your 28-year-old article violates at least two of them. It is "non-news" and "not Oxford-relevant". Please respect in future that this is a local news site, not a blog or a discussion forum.
- Richard Hering...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 10:56pm PST
Leonard Peltier Holiday Gift Drive The drive for warm clothes for Pine Ridge has begun. I am posting a list of some needed items this year, and contact info....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 6:22pm PST
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