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UPDATE: NBC Breaks Media Blackout of Mumia Photos; Smerconish and Faulkner outraged 
According to a new Counterpunch article by Linn Washington Jr, Today Show guests Michael Smerconish and Maureen Faulkner (authors of "Murdered By Mumia"), were reportedly outraged by the show, which entailed several challenging questions from co-host Matt Lauer.
Also, please contact The Today Show (today@msnbc.com) to thank them for their fair and balanced report....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 2:06am PST
San Diego Indymedia N-O-O-Z-R-E-A-L October-November, 2007 Part Two (video/quicktime 58.1MB) San Diego Indymedia N-O-O-Z-R-E-A-L is a nominally monthly compilation of excerpts of video posted to sandiego.indymedia.org. This first edition, spanning October-November, 2007, includes coverage of the October 22 Protest Against Police Brutality, Sister Spit: The Next Generation at The Rubber Rose, the Chican@ Park Donation Drop-off Site for migrant victims of the October fires, the Forgotten Fire Victims Press Conference, and the No Borders Camp. To submit video for December's N-O-O-Z-R-E-...
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 1:10pm PST
NBC's Today Show Spotlights New Mumia Abu-Jamal Crime Scene Photos Today's December 6 broadcast of NBC's Today Show, the highest rated morning news show in the country, featured the newly discovered Mumia Abu-Jamal / Daniel Faulkner crime scene photos taken by press photographer Pedro P. Polakoff....
Posted: Thu, Dec 6, 2007 4:35pm PST
EFF Calls on Senate Judiciary Committee and Full Senate to Take More Time and Not Let Telephone Companies Off the Hook Thursday, December 6, 2007 :Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up a bill introduced by Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) that would substitute the government for the phone companies in all current litigation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), co-lead counsel in the nearly 40 pending lawsuits against the major telephone carriers, strongly believes that Congress need not and should not grant amnesty for providing the National Security Agency (NSA)...
Posted: Thu, Dec 6, 2007 7:12am PST
Media Injects Immigrant Bashing into Presidential Campaigns Thursday, December 6, 2007 : Judging by the media questions at the Democratic and Republican presidential debates, immigration has replaced Iraq, health care, and the economy as the nation’s top issue. Forget about the billions of dollars being squandered in Iraq, or the 40 million Americans lacking health coverage---the media wants candidates to announce whether undocumented immigrants should get drivers licenses, or, at the December 4 Democratic debate, whether they would turn in an undocum...
Posted: Thu, Dec 6, 2007 7:12am PST
San Diego Indymedia N-O-O-Z-R-E-A-L October-November, 2007 Part One (video/quicktime 62.8MB) San Diego Indymedia N-O-O-Z-R-E-A-L is a nominally monthly compilation of excerpts of video posted to sandiego.indymedia.org. This first edition, spanning October-November, 2007, includes coverage of the October 22 Protest Against Police Brutality, Sister Spit: The Next Generation at The Rubber Rose, the Chican@ Park Donation Drop-off Site for migrant victims of the October fires, the Forgotten Fire Victims Press Conference, and the No Borders Camp. To submit video for December's N-O-O-Z-R-E-...
Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2007 10:51pm PST
North American Union Agenda Exists Despite official maps, documents, plans and bills in Congress the reality of the NAU and trans border superhighway is still denied as Ron Paul is attacked for speaking out about it....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 9:30pm PST
Beyond the Green Zone; excerpt of introduction at Foreign Policy in Focus Tuesday, December 4, 2007 :The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Haymarket Books, 2007)....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 7:08am PST
National Oral History Project StoryCorps Records Ordinary People Telling Their Stories to Each Other Monday, December 3, 2007 :We spend the hour with radio pioneer Dave Isay, who founded StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in the United States. Isay's new book is "Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project." We play several excerpts of StoryCorps recordings, of ordinary people telling their stories to each other and we speak with three of the people whose stories are featured in the book. They are among the many thousands who have recorde...
Posted: Mon, Dec 3, 2007 7:45am PST
Deception from the Dailies on Eve of Venezuela Referendum Sunday, December 2, 2007 The day before Sunday’s constitutional reform referendum in Venezuela, one can just feel the frustrations of the commercial media’s big players that there is really not much they can do, despite all their supposed power, to affect the outcome....
Posted: Sun, Dec 2, 2007 11:26am PST
Today, Dec 2nd: Live radio from Venezuela (audio/x-mpegurl 0.1KB) Radio Venezuela en Vivo:
Broadcasting Live from Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Referendum...
Posted: Sun, Dec 2, 2007 9:30am PST
PHILIPPINES: AKBAYAN condemns detention of journalists and warns govt against another crac 
AKBAYAN (Citizen's Action Party) condemned the arrest and rounding up of journalists and civil society leaders and warned the government today against using the Manila Pen stand-off to launch another crackdown against opposition, saying that it should instead face the issues that led to the stand-off squarely....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 1:37pm PST
ampb report #81 (audio/mpeg 31.1MB) A wrap-up of "pirate" radio news and other topics...
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 11:53am PST
EFF Wins Fast-Track Release of Telecom Lobbying Records 
Thursday, November 29, 2007 : San Francisco - Late Tuesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won the speedy release of telecom lobbying records from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 8:02am PST
Blogger Fights for Free Speech in New Jersey 
Thursday, November 29, 2007 : Manalapan, NJ - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a Superior Court judge in New Jersey today to preserve the free speech rights of an anonymous blogger facing legal threats from local government officials....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 8:01am PST
Press Freedom Under Attack - Andrew Gilligan Andrew Gilligan was at the center of a media storm in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq - here he talks about how the media is being manipulated across the Western world to prepare for another illegal war - this time against Iran...
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 5:15am PST
PeaceTalks: FCC Chairman proposes relaxing ban on cross ownership rules in major markets (audio/mpeg 31.4MB) George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Joe Torres of Free Press about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's proposal to relax the ban on cross ownership rules in major markets....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 5:59pm PST
World Assocaition of Newspapers with An-Nahar to Host "Press Under Seige" Dec-10-11 
Media in Danger conference
http://www.wan-press.org/tueni_award/articles.php?id=590
World Association of Newspapers
in partnership
with An-Nahar newspapers...
Posted: Tue, Nov 20, 2007 2:23pm PST
Pakistan: Dubai Should End Shutdown of Pakistani Channels (New York, November 20, 2007) – The Dubai government should allow Geo Television and ARY Digital, which broadcast from Dubai and function as Pakistan’s most independent and respected television stations, to resume operations immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. Musharraf isn’t content with muzzling critical media coverage of his repression within Pakistan – now he is pressuring Dubai to abet his crackdown on independent reporting....
Posted: Tue, Nov 20, 2007 6:46am PST
Crackdown On the Press: General Musharraf Shuts Down Two of Pakistan's Biggest Private Television News Channels Monday, November 19, 2007 :
Mazhar Abbas, the deputy director of one of the stations ARY One World television, joins us in New York He is also the Secretary-General of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. He has been a well-known champion of press freedom over the past 27 years....
Posted: Mon, Nov 19, 2007 7:34am PST
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