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Howard Stern is far cruder than the other NAB Hate Radio Olympians, but he’s still too slick for the corporate media to catch on to. Could it be they’re not really trying?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:19am PDT
Limbaugh’s style of hate radio, embedded in a wildly distorted view of reality, is perhaps the most deeply embedded in the basic assumptions of America’s corporate media. In fact, he’s got more in common with PBS’s Newshour than you’d ever imagine....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:15am PDT
Prague authorities have revoked permits for all street demonstrations on September 26th.
This obvious abuse of power probably won't stop the thousands of activists gearing up to disrupt the IMF/World Bank meetings next week.
Activists from around the globe can also help out by signing the open protest letter to Czech President Vaclav Havel (once political prisoner himself), and by faxing it to his office and/or sending email.
© copyleft...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 12:40am PDT
Fearful that the FCC would respond favorably to grassroots demands for LPFM, the NAB launched an aggressive
PR offensive to sway public opinion. The attached PDF file, a facsimile NAB "Anti-LPFM Kit" shows the extent that the NAB has gone to prevent media from created at the community level....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 11:15pm PDT
Show your support and tell the IMF/WB to
CANCEL THE DEBT NOW !!!
Seattle, WA 9/24/00 1:30PM...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 10:28pm PDT
LPFM activist Peter Franck of the National Lawyers Guild on Democratic Communications issues a superb assessment of anti-LPFM legislation and NPR's role in it all....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 10:18pm PDT
No more than 500 LPFM applicants entered in the second window.......
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 9:55pm PDT
We should consider how to break the hammerlock that huge firms currently maintain around the windpipe of the First Amendment. And we'd better hurry.The trend lines of media ownership are steep and ominous in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 9:03pm PDT
Toxic Fire at Hunter's Point Shipyard in San Francisco - - Fire down below!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 7:18pm PDT
Call For A Nationwide Protest Against The Presidential Debate Exclusion...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 5:40pm PDT
time advance for community dinner...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 4:47pm PDT
There's a great collection of articles, interviews, and editorials available from the SF Bay Guardian on their web site....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 3:24pm PDT
NOW confronts the bigoted programing and corporate bullying by the NAB....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 1:20pm PDT
Stephen Dunifer launched Radio Free Berkeley in 1993 with a transmitter the size of a brick. In this interview, he reflects on efforts to build a grassroots movement to free the media from corporate control....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 7:42am PDT
Attacks on micro radio, million to buy congress, monotonous white dominated TV. Welcome to the world of the NAB....
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 9:05pm PDT
NAB and its members control broadcast policy. Privatization of public airwaves yields corporate media wasteland....
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 3:30pm PDT
The learning channel runs Program that slams earthfirst. as a secret terrorist society
Size 6.2 MB run time 8 min....
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 2:29pm PDT
Protest gore and let him know what California really thinks about him!!! This is a good warmup protest before we hit SF for the media protest!!!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 1:54pm PDT