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Under intense US pressure, Qatar moves to sell Al Jazeera TV Following American pressure, a senior Qatari official said that the government is accelerating plans to put Al Jazeera TV on the market. Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other Bush administration officials have complained heatedly to Qatari leaders that Al Jazeera's broadcasts have been inflammatory, misleading and occasionally false, especially on Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2005 11:13pm PST
Environmental Revolution!! FINALLY SOMETHING REAL Legislation began last week in local counties to draft laws allowing weather experiments that have long term effects. help media do their job....
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2005 2:43pm PST
Wireless World: Powell's legacy at the FCC Great story about the FCC Chairman Michael Powell and his career there....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 9:58am PST
The Global Media Democracy Movement 
World Social Forum participants discuss how to hold corporate media accountable and how to build the alternative/independent media network....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:39am PST
White House Won't Contest Media Ownership Rules in Major Victory for Media Activists Grassroots media activists won a major victory Thursday when the Bush administration announced it would not seek to overturn a court ruling that has blocked the Federal Communications Commission from implementing sweepings regulations that would allow for greater media consolidation....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 8:42am PST
John L. Hess, Journalist (1917-2005) Link to story. John L. Hess passes away....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 3:04pm PST
Wireless World: Tracking pets with RFIDs Great story about tracking pets using RFID technology....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 12:42pm PST
BTL:Rightwing Talk Show Host Armstrong Williams Implicated in... ...Taxpayer-Funded Government Propaganda Campaign ~ Interview with Josh Silver, executive director of Free Press, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 7:56am PST
StreetLevel Screening at ATA: Feb. 6th Come see what all the fuss is about! StreetLevel TV screens their special anniversary issue at Artist's Television Access on February 6th!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 4:37pm PST
Jan. 20-22 broadcasts from S.F. (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB) Enemy Combatant Radio -- www.enemycombatantradio.net -- announces three days of special live radio coverage January 20th thru 22nd, 2005, as the San Francisco Bay Area protests Bush's re-coronation, endless war, empire and occupation on Thursday the 20th, and, two days later, takes to the streets to oppose the anti-choice right wing, which is bringing its so-called "walk for life" to the San Francisco waterfront....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 9:41pm PST
Pirate Cat TV to cover Bush Inauguration Protest: 
Watch Pirate Cat TV and listen to Pirate Cat Radio for live coverage of the 2005 Inauguration Protests....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 9:25am PST
Public Editor: Why the NY Times Doesn't Cover Environmental and Social Justice Issues! I just received the following e-mail from the NY Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent. My request: The NY Times should start an environmental and social justice section...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:52am PST
Ukraine Democratic Action multimedia (audio/ogg 1.9MB) Video/audio montage of the Ukraine Democratic Action following the realization the official vote count did not agree with exit polls....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:23pm PST
The Web: Browser wars flaring up again Great story about the return of Web browser wars....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 9:42am PST
SF pirate radio re: Pirate Cat Radio by Dan Strachota in the SF Weekly...
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 6:01pm PST
FAIR on Bush Admin Funding of Armstrong Williams Conservative pundit Armstrong Williams admits to taking almost a quarter of a million dollars from the U.S. government to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind legislation and the GAO scolds the Bush administration for the second time for using prepackaged video news releases the media runs as news....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 9:38am PST
CNN Fires Crossfire, Tucker Carlson Moves to MSNBC The new president of CNN, Jonathan Klein, announced last week the network has ended its relationship with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and will soon cancel its long-running program, Crossfire. We hear an excerpt of Crossfire featuring Jon Stewart of the The Daily Show and speak with Steve Rendall of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 9:36am PST
Bicycle Film Fest: Call For Entries Bicycle Film Fest: Call For Entries...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 2:30pm PST
Elvis Presley's comb Elvis Presleys comb hidden away for over 45 years in old ladys house in uk is up for Auction on e bay...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 12:55pm PST
Germany investigates US link to torture and kidnap case found this at http://logicvoice.blogspot.com...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 11:51am PST
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