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Bailouts for the Media Moguls: Thinking Outside the Newspaper Box
by DeeDee Halleck, www.deedeehalleck.blogspot.com
John Nichols and Robert McChesney have written a widely posted Nation article searching for answers to the current emergencies in the newspaper business. ("The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers") They recognize the crisis as an opportunity to rethink public media in general and their suggestions for remedy are at least a provocative starter for the needed reassessment and creative activism. They suggest the government pump in $60 billion over the next three years, a pricetag that is similar to, though less than, the handouts to AIG and the US banks.

Independent Music on Radio: Future of Music Coalition Study on the Impact of Payola Policies on Playlists.
http://www.futureofmusic.org/research/playlisttrackingstudy.cfm
Artist education, research and advocacy organization Future of Music Coalition announces the release of a new report that analyzes radio playlists to determine whether the policy interventions resulting from 2003-2007 payola investigations have had any effect on the amount of independent music played on terrestrial radio.

SF Judge Questions Admin on Telecom Wiretapping
A federal judge in San Francisco is raising questions about the constitutionality of a law designed to dismiss suits against telecommunications companies accused of cooperating with government wiretapping.

Man Shoots Television
A Missouri man was charged with unlawful use of a firearm, after peppering his TV with bullets. The 70-year old homeowner was angry that he had lost his cable, and was unable to get his new D-TV converter box to work properly.

Commercial Broadcaster Public Interest Obligations
What public interest obligations, you say? But they do exist and recently the FCC has gone as far as to suggest that they may be a bit more stringently enforced.

How Much Does Consolidated Media Cost?
Congressional filings reveal, per Inside Radio, that the National Association of Broadcasters spent 2.5 million in the first quarter of 2008. Clear Channel and CBS Broadcasting chipped in an additional 1.7 million between January and March of 2008.

Why Obama Should Ditch YouTube
President-elect Barack Obama has now posted his second weekly address to YouTube, and it has already gotten more than 411,000 views.

Anti-Muslim Film Delivered to Newspaper Reader's Doorsteps
In the midst of remarkably cynical election-time mud-slinging, the Obsession campaign is truly in a class of its own.

Comrade, Can You Spare a Dime?
In a piece of election time silliness, Russia Today has revealed that the Russian mission to the United Nations received a nine page appeal for donations from the McCain/Palin campaign. Which is just a bit illegal. The McCain/Palin campaign said "oops - a computer error".

Chicago Comcast-NBC Hearing
Thanks to our friends at Chicago Media Action, audio is available from the Chicago hearing on the Comcast-NBC merger. Listen here.

Request for Hate Speech Inquiry Launched
by Gautham Nagesh, The Hill
A coalition of more than 30 organizations argue in a letter to the FCC that the Internet has made it harder for the public to separate the facts from bigotry masquerading as news.

Fox News is No News Outlet
MA Op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle November 13, 2009

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