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by Ned Hibberd, Fox 26 Houston
Pretty rare that we post Fox News clips on the MA site, but here is a great story from Houston on Pacifica Radio's Prison Show that has been airing in Houston Texas for 32 years.
| The Prison Show On Fox News by Ned Hibberd, Fox 26 Houston Pretty rare that we post Fox News clips on the MA site, but here is a great story from Houston on Pacifica Radio's Prison Show that has been airing in Houston Texas for 32 years. |
.jpg) | Has the CPB Become Indispensable? by Andrew Lapin, Current Magazine The ever-imperiled public broadcasting subsidies that are constantly under attack are the subject of this report in Current Magazine, which summarizes an independent report commissioned by the CPB which predicts the collapse of the public broadcasting system if federal grants are significantly reduced or eliminated. |
 | Ukraine Moves to Censor Spongebob by Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo News - The Sideshow The Ukraine is considering a move to censor several children's shows after a new study from a conservative commission labeled the shows "a real threat" to the country's youth. The Ukraine's National Expert Commission for Protecting Public Morality released the report, which attacks several U.S. and international programs as detrimental to the country. |
 | Hate Radio Elevates Physical Stress National Hispanic Media Coalition A pilot study released by the National Hispanic Media Coalition ("NHMC") and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center ("CSRC") found that listeners subjected to hate speech targeting vulnerable groups experienced an increase in the production of a stress-related hormone that could, over time, have a significant negative impact on the listener's health. Findings suggest that increased production of this hormone occurs regardless of listeners' race, ethnicity, nativity, or ideological alignment with the speaker, suggesting that hate speech may harm not only its targets, but all that hear it as well. |
.jpg) | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Object to War "Reality" Show Nine Nobel Peace Laureates including Archbishop Tutu. Jody Williams and Oscar Arias Sanchez objected to NBC's "Stars Earn Stripes" celebrity war games. |
 | AT&T and Rural America: A Deconstruction This AT&T commercial opens with a wide shot of uninhabited, undeveloped, and empty green fields divided by a freeway of large moving trucks and cars. “This is Genco Services, McAllen, Texas” states the narrator, as his voice continues on we move into a shot of a single Longhorn steer. As someone who was raised in this very area of the country, this commercial literally made me laugh. |
 | Fault Lines (Al Jazeera English) on Web Surveillance Bills - "Controlling the Web" An incisive look at how anti-piracy proposals threaten computer users privacy and freedom. |
 | San Luis Obispo Supervisor Threatening Local Newspaper by Cal Coast News Staff - Karen Velie, Cal Coast News We haven't had time to investigate this further, but here is a report from a local paper/news site in San Luis Obispo reporting some harassment from a local supervisor that is possibly linked to their coverage of a crackdown on the homeless in the city. |
 | Kill the Copper and Move 'Em Along At the June 21st Guggenheim Securities Symposium, the CEO of Verizon laid out aggressive plans to move customers off of copper phone lines and into Fios service and not necessarily voluntarily. |
 | Hate Crime: 30 Years Later by Emil Gillermo, AALDEF Blog Emil Guillermo interviews the killer of Vincent Chin - 30 years after the young Asian man was beaten to death with a baseball bat. |
 | Need a Press List? The 2012-2013 Northern California press list has 1,110 media contacts at print, broadcast, ethnic, hyperlocal news and alternative outlets. Add a Media How-To Guide for everything you need to do guerilla publicity with limited time and money and get coverage for hard-to-cover stories. |
 | The Crime of Broadcasting by Irakli Metreveli , AFP Georgia's opposition accused the government Friday of trying to keep it off the airwaves after police impounded 300,000 satellite dishes intended to boost an opposition tycoon's TV station. |
 | It's Official - Sexy Women Are Objects by Phillipe Bernard, Psycholigical Science A new study published in Psychological Science finds that both men and women see images of sexy women’s bodies as objects, while they see sexy-looking men as people. |
 | Documentary Filmmaker Wins in Tax Court by Katherine Reith, International Documentary Organization Lee Storey, an attorney in the area of water rights and a documentary filmmaker, learned today that her documentary film Smile ‘Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story has been considered a for-profit endeavor in the eyes of the US Tax Court |
 | Community Broadband - What It Is by Christopher Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance 90-second animated piece explaining that broadband doesn't have to come from AT&T or Comcast. |
 | Religious Websites More Malignant Than Pornsites by Daniel Ionesco, PC World Religious and ideological websites can carry three times more malware threats than pornography sites, according to research from security firm Symantec. The firm’s annual Internet Security Threat Report also found that threats to mobile devices continue to grow, almost exclusively for Google’s Android mobile OS. |
.jpg) | Eritrea Tops List of World Press Censors by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), UK Guardian Eritrea leads the world in imposing censorship on the media, followed closely by North Korea, Syria and Iran, according to a journalism group. |
 | 2011 Banned Books List - 70% Female Authors by Tracy Rosenberg, American Library Association The ALA list of the top 10 books targeted for removal from schools and libraries is out for 2011. 7 out of the 10 books were written by women. |
 | Community Media Rights Are Common Ground by Autumn Labbe Renault, The Davis Enterprise Davis Media Access director Autumn Labbe-Renault blogs about lobbying Sacramento in opposition to SB 1161 |
 | Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking In August 2011, 35 ACLU affiliates filed over 380 public records requests with state and local law enforcement agencies to ask about their policies, procedures and practices for tracking cell phones. |