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Sharp Critique of Wheeler Appt by Former FCC Commissioner
by Paul Jay, Real News Network
May 15th, 2013
A sharp critique of President Obama's appointment of former telecom lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chair by former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson, who served from 1966-1973 and was appointed by Lyndon Johnson. From Canada's Real News Network.

KFOG radio – Then and Now
by Lincoln Cushing, Kaiser Permanente Archives
May 15th, 2013
Kaiser archivist Lincoln Cushing sends this story about KFOG and Kaiser: once an owner and now a sponsor. A little Bay Area radio history on the album rock station of many people's youths.

Keeping It Real: An LPFM Pioneer
by Bruce Rushton, Illinois Times
Enjoy this fun article on a pioneer in low-power formerly "pirate" radio from the Illinois Times.

A Light Moment: Unfairness is Universal
by Frans De Waals, Ted Talks
This delightful video shows Capuchin monkeys reacting to unfairness and inequity when one gets compensated with cucumber bits for doing a task and another with the much better pay rate of a grape. We can all relate.

Media Literacy: Girls,Video Games and the Damsel in Distress
Feminist Frequency
A 20-minute video identifying the use of damsel in distress imagery in video games. Great for schools or the young girl in your life.

Hollywood Blames LA Officials for Loss of Public Access Television
Full Disclosure Network
Actor Ed Asner weighs in on the loss of public access in television in Los Angeles in this video by the Full Disclosure Network.

The New ‘Professionalized’ Al Jazeera Will Not Solve Democratic Deficits in US Public Media – We Need A Revolution.
by Scott Sanders, Mag-Net Blog
What connects Al-Jazeera and Chicago Public Media? This essay by Chicago Media Action Co-founder Scott Sanders connects dots between the uproar after CPM cancelled the Cornel/West show, the incoming Al-Jazeera America network and what all this means about the state of US public media.

Lowjack the Power
A fun video about radio, where it's been and what LPFM means.

Project Censored: The Movie
Coming soon ....

David Cay Johnston on Gigabit Nation
Author and journalist David Cay Johnston on cableco monopolies and how they distort economic development on Gigabit Nation

38-State Street View Prying Case Settled
by David Streifield, NY Times
It probably looks like we're picking on Google, but after 38 states filed suit to protect user privacy after Google's Street View mapping project randomly scooped up passwords, email account info and other data, privacy advocates had reason to be concerned.

NCMR: It's Our Time: Community Media's new Policy Agenda Starts Now
Join us in Denver for the new community media policy agenda, stop the spectrum speculators, and more media change fun and activism. April 5-7.

Blocking Internet for Everyone: Municipal Broadband on Democracy Now
Chris Mitchell on Democracy Now: How the telcos prevent affordable and accessible internet services to preserve the oligopoly

Homophobia Nixed By Associated Press
by Chuck Colbert, Press Pass Q
The A/P Stylebook has removed homophobia as an approved word for the dislike, hatred and fear of gay and lesbian sexuality. Chuck Colbert reports for Press Pass Q.

Rip Those Ads Apart: "New Coke" is Much Like The Old Coke
Media literacy may be the best present we can give the next generation. One of the best in the country at it is Albuquerque's Media Literacy Project.

There They Go Again: FCC Revolving Door to Big Media
by Craig Aaron, Huffington Post
Nobody is surprised by now. But it does kind've make you wake up and take notice when FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's former Chief of Staff takes the job as counsel for Tribune Co, right after securing cross-ownership waivers from the agency.

Academic Free Speech Case in Washington State
by David Demers, American Center for Civil Liberties
An interesting academic free speech case in Washington State now in the Court of Appeals pits tenured faculty free speech rights against employer rights. Here is a detailed summary of the case and what is at stake by the journalism professor who is the main plaintiff.

Organizations Urge Reintroduction of the Private Prisons Information Act
by Chris Petrella and Alex Friedman, Human Rights Defense Center
A joint letter signed by 33 criminal justice, civil rights and public interest organizations was submitted urging the reintroduction of the Private Prison Information Act. The Private Prison Information Act (PPIA) would require for-profit prison companies that contract with the federal government to comply with public records requests made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the same extent as federal agencies.

The Quality of Massive Open Online Education: How Free is it?
by Samantha Calamari, Media Alliance
The manner in which we seek and receive information is transforming at a rapid rate. So fast, in fact, we can't even see it change before our eyes.

University Suspends Journalism Student For Asking Questions For A Class Assignment
by Barry Petetchsky, Gawker.com
A short piece from gawker.com with a headline you don't want to hear

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