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Diamond Dave Whitaker's Third Show of poetry and music - June 23, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 11:50pm PDT
The second show of Diamond Dave Whitaker...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 9:52pm PDT
In less than a week of recklessness reporting, the Bay Area media has destroyed a humble Pakistani family and three other men. The carnage was unbelievable. In a frenzy race for the ratings, the media descended to Lodi, a small town south of Sacramento, in search of the "terrorist cell" they learned about in a federal criminal complaint.
Everybody took at face value the veracity of an FBI affidavit and the most imaginative headlines started to come out of the editor's brains. The...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:01pm PDT
With the increasing politicization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the threat of funding cuts in Congress, public media in this country is facing a serious crisis. We spend the hour with legendary journalist Bill Moyers - the subject of much of the pressure brought by CPB chair Kenneth Tomlinson....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 5:10am PDT
Capitalists try to squelch free online file sharing of music -- our right -- through court action!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 1:22pm PDT
Calling Out to All Photographers! Fault Lines wants to publish your pictures of community-based activists in action for our special summer issue......
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 8:56pm PDT
It is clear that genetic selection, in addition to reducing the propensity for disease through elimination of undesirable genes, will also improve physical characteristics and intelligence. Soon, choosing the physical and mental characteristics of a child through cloning and genetic selection will be vastly preferable to the present day biological lottery, assuming one has sufficient capital to afford physical and intellectual augmentation. If the near future, the capital-rich elite will be a...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 1:21pm PDT
6 year old microradio station has 10 days to respond. Community support is needed!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 11:13pm PDT
Go to
http://kpfa.org/lsb/
to listen online. Public comment is supposed to start at 2pm today: Sunday, June 19th. Before that the agenda
http://pacifica.org/about/pnb/meeting.php?mtg_id=150&
calls for an executive session.
See highlights of the Wednesday, June 15th, demo at
http://www.johnsheridanart.com/pacifica_6-15-05.htm
Three-minute QT movie. 13MB....
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 11:27am PDT
Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes
publish information that other people don't want published.
You might, for example, publish something that someone
considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's
under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the
alleged crimes of a candidate for public office....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 1:44pm PDT
A story about rogue capitalists ruin wireless....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 1:24pm PDT
Photos from the 2005 Tehran Press Fair, held on the
sidelines of the Tehran Book Fair....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:57am PDT
The journalist that helped expose the Iran-Contra Affair targets the mainstream media as giving the Bush Administration the blank check it needed to deceive the American people....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:41am PDT
On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee voted to drastically cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We host a roundtable discussion on the continuing fight over public broadcasting in this country with the presidents of two PBS stations as well as Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:18am PDT
Help Deep Dish TV To Provide Global Television Uplink of World Tribunal on Iraq June 24th-27th, 2005 from Istanbul, Turkey...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:29am PDT
The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote today on drastic cuts to both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Representative Ralph Regula's proposal would eliminate $100 million in federal funding to CPB and phase out the existance of PBS. For a look at media under fire, we turn to the National Conference on Media Reform....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 9:12am PDT
WASHINGTON, June 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are examining $15,000 in payments to two Republican lobbyists last year that were not disclosed to the corporation's board, people involved in the inquiry said on Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 9:05am PDT
Interview with Dave Steel and Helen Steel, subject of the new documentary McLibel, from NYC Indymedia's biweeklyn newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:36pm PDT
SANTA CRUZ INDYMEDIA UPDATE, JUNE 15, 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:35pm PDT
Review of recent relase of recent release McLibel, from NYC Indymedia's biweekly newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:34pm PDT


