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Village Voice: Top Journalist Fired, Writers Resign Following Merger with New Times Media We focus on the shakeup at the Village Voice, where one of the paper's top investigative reporters was fired and two of its prize-winning writers resigned following a merger with the New Times Media - a chain of weekly newspapers based in Phoenix. In this week's issues, about 20 staffers wrote an open letter protesting the dismissal of James Ridgeway - the paper's Washington correspondent and one of its chief investigative reporters covering national news. Ridgeway had written for the paper f...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:52am PDT
Breaking - Bay Guardian Tim Redmond on Democracy Now Today Soon to be available:
The Bay Guardian's publisher Tim Redmond was interviewed on Democracy Now today.
The subject was the NY Village Voice....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 6:52am PDT
Former AT&T Mole Outs NSA Spy Ring A reprint of former AT&T Tech Mark Klein's statement about the NSA
spy ring at AT&T....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 6:28am PDT
Wi-Fi in SF: Log-on rule would allow Google to track users' whereabouts If it's to be truely "free" wi-fi then there should be no log-on requirment by Google. They have enough data as it is. And the government is already all hot and bothered to get their hands on that....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 1:05am PDT
US propaganda magnifies Zarqawi threat: report WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to overstate the threat to stability posed by the al Qaeda leader in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Monday....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 11:07pm PDT
Google Wi-Fi Bid Lacking in Privacy, Speed, Digital Divide Elements Media Alliance joined with numerous other organizations to urge City officials to press for stronger public interest provisions in light of yesterday's announcement that Google/ Earthlink won the bidding process to build a citywide Wi-fi network. The bid by media darling Google, owned by close friends of Mayor Newsom, was rated poorly on “right to privacy" considerations and connection speed, and lacked funding for bridging the digital divide....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 5:47pm PDT
Arab Media Analysts on CBS Interview of Osama’s Bodyguard SAN FRANCISCO--When “60 Minutes” aired an interview with Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard on Sunday, American media may have broken taboos by giving voice to a member of Al Qaeda, but it didn’t break stereotypes, according to some Arab media analysts....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 5:44pm PDT
Ethnic Media As Advocates -- Is There a Problem Here? LOS ANGELES--Press coverage of the recent pro-immigrant demonstrations in Los Angeles and other cities across the country has included descriptions of how Spanish-language entertainment and news personalities joined forces to promote the protests....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 5:43pm PDT
Local KRON and KPIX-CBS TV News Is Bought and You Are Sold Down the River Looking at the Free Press's list of the stations running corporate press releases as news (http://www.prwatch.org/map/TV_Stations), they include one SF station, the CBS affiliate. But it seems there's a lot more of this (and at least one more flavor) than even they realize. Here was the headline in Wednesday's SF Chronicle: "Cash-strapped KRON is letting advertisers buy into news broadcasts. The boss says it's just a sign of the times."
Curiously, one of the quotes in the story...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 11:03am PDT
Robert Fisk on Iraq, Palestine and the Failure of the U.S. Corporate Media We speak with one of the most experienced war correspondents in the world today, Robert Fisk - chief Middle East correspondent of the London Independent - about Iraq, Palestinian and Israeli elections, the corporate media and much more....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:09am PDT
Amy Goodman Questions Fmr. Chief Military Spokesman in Iraq Reuters sponsored a debate this week in New York asking the question: "Iraq - is the media telling the real story?" The panel included journalists from a number of U.S. and international newspapers as well as Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, the former chief military spokesman in Iraq. At the event, Amy Goodman asked Boylan about the killing and detaining journalists by U.S. forces and the paying of Iraqi journalists to plant stories in the press....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:08am PDT
The Web: An iPod for your car The wealthy entertain themselves by using iPods in their cars....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 6:51pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/7/06 ¡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, Apr 6, 2006 4:13pm PDT
How Corporate-Funded Propaganda Is Airing On Local Newscasts As "News" A new study being released today by the Center for Media and Democracy found at least 77 TV stations around the country has aired corporate-sponsored video news releases over the past 10 months. The report accuses the TV stations actively disguise the content - which has been paid for by companies like General Motors, Panasonic and Pfizer -- to make it appear to be their own reporting. In a broadcast exclusive we speak with the authors of the report and air examples of the video news releases...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 8:30am PDT
Support an Independent Community Media Center in Marin SUPPORT MARIN'S NEW COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER! The Marin Telecommunications Agency (MTA) has delegated decisions on the shape and location of the new media center to the 'Media Center Governance Working Group'. Fortunately Media Action Marin (MAM) has one seat on this group. The final meetings of the Working Group are Wednesday and Thursday April 5-6 from 4-7pm at the Marin Civic Center. Please come and show your support for local, independent media....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 9:33pm PDT
Eye on the Middle East -- Arab Media Tracks U.S. Image-Polishing Efforts The United States is making a concerted effort to influence Arab media, with mixed results. Jalal Ghazi monitors and translates Arab media for New America Media and Link TV....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:35pm PDT
Conflict Claims IWPR Trainee Kamal Manahi Anbar, a young journalist with enormous promise, died last week while researching a story in Baghdad....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:22pm PDT
Media figures attacked Mexican-flag-wavers, but not those waving Irish, Italian, or Israel Summary: Following recent demonstrations in which protesters marched against proposed legislation that would criminalize undocumented workers, some in the media have criticized the demonstrators for carrying Mexican flags. But these same media figures have not complained about people waving other nations' flags, such as Irish flags at St. Patrick's Day events, Italian flags at Columbus Day events, or Israeli flags at Israel Day events....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 10:44pm PDT
Microsoft Makes Virtual Server R2 Free Price drops from $199 or $99 to nothing for flagship virtualization software....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 10:11am PDT
CWA organizing at Cingular! The Communications Workers of America has undertaken one of the nation's largest and most successful organizing campaigns at Cingular Wireless. The CWA now represents more than 38,000 workers at Cingular...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 2:41pm PDT
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