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NAB: Airwaves Belong to the People
Drafted by FAIR and signed by media activists including Noam Chomsky, Bob McChesney & Ben Bagdikian, this letter reminds the NAB that the airwaves belong to the people....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 6:38am PDT
NAB Hate Radio Olympics
It’s no accident that the Marconi Radio Award nominees include Don Imus, Howard Stern, and Rush Limbaugh, while past winners include Limbaugh, Stern, and Dr. Laura. Their styles of hate radio, carefully blended with plausible deniability, are anything but an abberation from the norm that America’s corporate broadcast media have sunk to....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:33am PDT
The NAB and Dr. Laura
“Dr.” Laura isn’t really a doctor--her degree is in physiology, not psychiatry or psychology. Nothing else about her is exactly what it seems, either. Thanks to the highly effective grassroots group StopDrLaura.com, people are fimally starting to get the picture....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:29am PDT
The NAB and Don Imus
Don Imus is so well connected to elite media and politicians, he couldn’t possibly be doing hate radio, could he? Not unless hate radio is integral to America’s corporate media system!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:24am PDT
The NAB and Howard Stern
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
The NAB and Rush Limbaugh
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 revoke permits for demos
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
NAB Propaganda Against LPFM
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
Seattle, Cancel the Debt Now!
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 Legislation and NPR Involvement
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
LPFM applications results
No more than 500 LPFM applicants entered in the second window.......
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 9:55pm PDT
The Media Big Six
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 Hunters Point Shipyard
Toxic Fire at Hunter's Point Shipyard in San Francisco - - Fire down below!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 7:18pm PDT
Protest Against Presidential Debate Exclusion
Call For A Nationwide Protest Against The Presidential Debate Exclusion...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 5:40pm PDT
diamond dave calls u to dinner
time advance for community dinner...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 4:47pm PDT
SF Bay Guardian Special on NAB
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 Protest Against NAB Report
NOW confronts the bigoted programing and corporate bullying by the NAB....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 1:20pm PDT
Interview with Stephen Dunifer
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