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An open letter to NBC news, 9/2/05, on Katrina reporting Watching NBC's "Dateline" for Friday 9/2, I realized what subtle racism means, and saw that the 1950s still aren't over....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:04am PDT
Lockout at the CBC—“Canada’s public broadcaster” The lockout of 5,500 journalists and technicians at the federal government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) threatens to be prolonged. Taking its cue from the corporate media giants and Canada’s Liberal government, CBC management is seeking to impose a new business model in which an ever-larger proportion of its employees will be contract workers with little or no job security....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:35pm PDT
Listeners as the Guardians of KPFA A commentary from the Berkeley Daily Planet of 9/2/05, in reply to a previous opinion piece in which it was said that 12-15,000 listeners marched in 1999 in support of the same staff which is "running the station now"....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:47pm PDT
Listeners as the Guardians of KPFA A commentary from the Berkeley Daily Planet of 9/2/05, in reply to a previous opinion piece in which it was said that 12-15,000 listeners marched in 1999 in support of the same staff which is "running the station now"....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 3:05pm PDT
KPFA Staff has Refused to Implement LSB's Decicisions Bill Mandel, scholar & longtime KPFA commentator says that the current situation there is not that the Local Station Board disrespects the staff, but that "the entrenched staff has no use for the democracy its broadcasts preach to the world"....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 9:56am PDT
Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 7:57pm PDT
The Web: Experts eye Web's next generation http://about.upi.com/products/hi-tech/UPI-20050831-083433-1182R...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 5:53pm PDT
Free-wheelin' Censorship at Santa Cruz Indymedia How much room can trigger-happy censorship leave for actual dialogue?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 8:43am PDT
Networking: Internet telephony enticing new users Corporations force workers to make due with less....
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 5:21pm PDT
KPFA article in SF Bay View weekly Willie Ratcliff, publisher of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, wrote this front page editorial in this week's edition.
He is a member of the KPFA Local Station Board, which devoted 8 meetings to investigating the charges against General Manager Roy Campanella II, and has this to say about the attempt to fire him....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 7:38pm PDT
Google, Skype Race Toward Next IM Frontier Greedy bastards steal IM technology and use it for "corporations."...
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 4:23pm PDT
Fox pundit's mistake terrorizes family Every once in a while we see an example of the serious consequences that a media mistake can cause. This latest example happened when a Fox pundit identified a home he said belonged to a terrorist. It did belong to the man he named -- three years ago. Now it belongs to a family and they're living a nightmare because of the mistake. The family is also not satisfied with Fox's lackluster efforts to correct the error. (Neither are we.) The LA Times has the full story. Key excerpts below....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 8:21pm PDT
"Loose Change" New 9/11 Film Airs on Ch. 29 (SF) Sat. 6:30 pm The latest 9/11 film to date, "Loose Change", airs on public access Cable Channel 29 this Sat. Aug. 27th, at 6:30 pm. Spread the
word!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 10:39am PDT
The Web: 'Net slowing spread of HIV Cyber-space helping with sex-for all genders....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 6:44pm PDT
Res Fest Digital Film Festival Next month an exciting film festival is coming to San Francisco, showcasing the edgiest pieces of digital film work by the most innovative artists in the field right now....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 2:30pm PDT
KPFA LSB's Update on the General Manager issue A statement from the Local Station Board of KPFA concerning the history of the actions against Roy Campanella II, the decisions of the LSB, & the current status of the matter....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 10:57am PDT
Networking: Cheap health-records software Unscrupulous doctors jack up billings using the Internet....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2005 3:27pm PDT
RFID Vendors, Analysts Upbeat on Proposed Licensing Plan Big Brother conspiracy moves forward to track everybody and everything....
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2005 2:47pm PDT
Another Perspective on the Goings-On at KPFA A powerful minority of the KPFA staff is intent upon ousting General Manager Roy Campanella II, on the job less than a year. The last manager, Gus Newport, resigned after nine months in the position due to difficulties in working with the factionalized staff....
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2005 1:49pm PDT
New uses for Blackberrys, PDAs soon Exploitative work masters think of new "applications" for mobile communications to keep you tethered to your desk even in your deserved rest time. This is injustice....
Posted: Sat, Aug 20, 2005 7:36am PDT
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