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Second Battle of Seattle? FCC Democrats call short notice for Seattle hearing "outrageous" The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled its final hearing on its media ownership rules. The gathering will take place on November 9th in Seattle, Washington....
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 4:15pm PDT
FCC Commissioners Adelstein and Copps Decry Proposals to Ease Caps on Media Consolidation Thursday, November 1, 2007 :
Federal Communications Commission Chair Kevin Martin has proposed to do away with a rule that bars companies from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. In 2003, Martin voted with the then-FCC chairman Michael Powell to lift the same media ownership rules, but the effort was overturned by the landmark Prometheus v. FCC decision. As public hearings continue, we speak to dissident FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 7:48am PDT
Peace Talks: Joseph Torres of Free Press on FCC efforts to change media ownership rules (audio/mpeg 23.5MB) George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Joseph Torres, government relations manager at Free Press, about recent moves by FCC chairman Kevin Martin to relax media ownership rules....
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 6:03pm PDT
FEMA Admits It Held Fake Press Conference About California Wild Fires; FEMA Staffers Posed As Journalists Monday, October 29, 2007 :
On Tuesday FEMA staged a fake press conference Tuesday with agency staffers posing as news reporters. One FEMA staffer who pretended to be a journalist has since been promoted to become head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 8:07am PDT
University of Michigan Press To Continue Publishing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism" After Initially Dropping Book Monday, October 29, 2007 :
Last week the University of Michigan Press voted unanimously to continue distributing books from the London-based independent publishing house Pluto Press. The controversy began earlier this summer when the university press initially decided to stop distributing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 8:07am PDT
Times Continues War on South America’s Left Monday, October 29, 2007 : While the New York Times has become an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War, the paper remains a cheerleader for neoconservative political forces in South America. This again became clear with its October 28, 2007 profile of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who won a landslide victory yesterday to become Argentina’s next president....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 7:35am PDT
US should not compromise on Armenian Genocide debate Turks should not shy away from that, find excuses, resort to denial, or get angry about the whole thing. We are not blaiming nowadays Turks for what their Sultan ordered almost a hundred years ago. But the problem is that the whole issue has been so politicised....
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2007 8:56pm PDT
Independent Media: Where Now? Syndicated Content From Bristol...
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2007 10:57am PDT
Free Geek In San Diego? Let's try it! I am seeking people who'd like to get a computer recycling & instruction organization going in San Diego....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:10pm PDT
One Year Later, Justice Eludes Killers of American Journalist Brad Will Friday, October 26, 2007 :
On Saturday friends and family of the murdered journalist Brad Will are gathering in New York at St. Mark's Church to mark the first anniversary of his death. At the time of his death, Brad Will was covering the popular uprising in Oaxaca Mexico. The alleged executioners were identified as two members of the local city hall, two municipal police officers and the former justice of the peace of a nearby town. But to date no one has held been held accountable for hi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:16am PDT
The Shortwave Report 10/26 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, Oct 25, 2007 6:04pm PDT
EFF Wins Reexamination of Bogus Patent Wednesday, October 24, 2007 :San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won reexamination from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) of a bogus patent threatening mobile information access. The reexamination order is the third granted by the PTO after challenges from EFF's Patent Busting Project....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:56am PDT
Fuego en San Diego: Muy Poca Información en Español Originally From New America Media
La peor oleada de incendios en la historia del Condado de San Diego ha dejado un saldo de 250 mil personas evacuadas, 195 mil viviendas desalojadas y 100 mil acres consumidos por las llamas. “Y esto va a empeorar”, dijo el Sheriff Bill Kolender....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:49am PDT
Fuego in San Diego: Very Little Information in Spanish Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 : SAN DIEGO – As fires continue to rage in San Diego County, Hispanic residents have had trouble getting emergency information in Spanish. The worst wave of forest fires in the history of San Diego County left a total of 250,000 evacuated, 195,000 homes destroyed and 100,000 acres consumed by the blaze....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 7:49am PDT
US: Bush administration fast-tracks relaxation of media ownership constraints Tuesday, October 23, 2007 :Last week, the head of the US Federal Communications Commission unveiled a plan to scrap regulations on media ownership in order to facilitate increased corporate consolidation. The proposal, which would take effect in two months, is crafted for the exclusive benefit of multi-billion dollar media conglomerates and their private investors....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 7:39am PDT
New Orleans Labor Media Web Site Set-up A New Orleans labor media center was established during the ILCA convention and provided
photos, stories, audio and video of the conditions of the working class in New Orleans...
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 9:32am PDT
FCC Chair Kevin Martin Proposes Rules To Allow For Greater Media Consolidation Monday, October 22, 2007 :
The FCC is proposing to do away with media ownership rules that bar companies from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. In 2003, Kevin Martin voted with the then-FCC Chairman to lift the same media ownership rules but the effort was overturned by the landmark Prometheus v. FCC decision....
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 7:58am PDT
Sen Baback Obama BANS Indymedia Journalist From Rally In Tempe Az 
When Obama had a Rally last Friday on the campus of Arizona State University,his crew BANNED entrance of local Indymedia Journalist to cover the event because he wasn't on the corporate media list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 4:18pm PDT
EFF Suit Demands Telecom Lobbying Records from Director of National Intelligence Thursday, October 18, 2007 : San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today, demanding any information about telecommunications companies' efforts to get off the hook for their role in the government's illegal electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans....
Posted: Thu, Oct 18, 2007 7:40am PDT
Verizon Wireless blocks NARAL: contends it has the right to block messages it deems "controversial" or "unsavory." Wednesday, October 17, 2007 : Let's say you visit your local library and check out Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and The Kinsey Report, both of which are included in a conservative hit list of the "Ten Most Harmful Books of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Or maybe Heather Has Two Mommies, or a few books about guns and hunting....
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 7:37am PDT
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