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AUTOLECT: Eclectic Hip Hop album “Every Mans Universe”
Conscious Underground Hip Hop
Release date: 11/15/05, thru City Hall Records...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 1:41pm PDT
Wireless World: Rehnquist's legacy
Rehnquist was a tool of the technology industry....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 1:23pm PDT
Government Trying to Stem the Tide of Images From New Orleans by Threatening Journalists?
Journalists covering New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina report that militarization in and around the city has hindered their work and threatened their physical safety. We hear from two journalists who were reporting in New Orleans recently....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 7:22am PDT
Hiding Bodies Won't Hide the Truth
Cadavers have a way of raising questions.
When people see them, they wonder, how did they get dead?
When a lot of people see a lot of dead bodies, politicians begin thinking of damage control....
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 2:46pm PDT
The Web: Searching for survivors online
The Internet served as an electronic ally in the wake of Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 6:17pm PDT
Radio Astrodome: Independent Media to Provide Critical Info for Displaced New Orleans Resi
Independent media activists are setting up a low-power radio station at the Houston Astrodome to provide critical information to hurricane Katrina evacuees. We speak with those working on launching the station and the challenges involved....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:27am PDT
Memo to the Media: Stop Enabling the White House Blame Game
When it comes to managing political crises (as opposed to national ones), the Bush White House has earned a reputation as masters of damage control. And rightly so -- let’s see you get reelected after Abu Ghraib, the “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” memo, no WMD, no bin Laden (dead or alive), and “Mission (Most Definitely Not) Accomplished”....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 6:45am PDT
Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media?
As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:57am PDT
Indybay Website Orientation, Saturday, October 1st
Have you enjoyed spending time at Indybay.org? Do you appreciate it as a special tool for dissemination of information about local activism and a place to have thoughtful, respectful discussions about current issues? Would you like to know how the website works? Have you thought about getting more involved? If so, then our next website orientation is for you. Learn more about Indybay.org and how you can help the site continue to be the useful project that it is....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:17pm PDT
Aaron Glantz talks about Iraq, Journalism, and current events on Gulf Coast
Aaron Glantz is today's guest on Media Matters....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 11:15am PDT
U.S. Military Admits It Killed Reuters Journalist, Calls It 'Appropriate'
U.S. military confirmed on Thursday that its soldiers killed a Reuters journalist in Iraq but said their action was "appropriate."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:44pm PDT
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