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 | Jose Luis Sin Censura: CANCELED!
Two major media watchdog groups have joined to file a complaint of failure to enforce broadcast decency standards for an LA-produced Spanish language talk show with a heavy dose of homophobia, nudity and slurs. |
| LA Clearchannel Hosts Suspended After Advertiser Boycott
Update 3/22/12 Los Angeles City Council passes a resolution denouncing hate speech and calling for more diversity on Los Angeles broadcast stations, and commends council member Jan Perry for penning the motion. The resolution passed with overwhelming support by a 13-2 margin. |
 | CA Disclose Act
While the goal needs to be to get money OUT of politics, in the meantime we have the Disclose Act, which will at least tell us who pays for what. |
 | Live From Occupy Wall Street
Update 11/23 - November has been marked by a series of confrontations over city center encampments all over the country from the Bay's Davis, Berkeley and Oakland to Portland, Atlanta, Chicago and Zucotti Park. The month has also featured an action at the San Francisco Bank of America, a trek from OWS-New York to Occupy DC and many other actions. |
 | Community Pushback on AT&T/T-Mobile
Update: 6/28/2011 - CA PUC Public Participation Hearing on AT&T Merger: Thursday July 7th at 6:00pm at 505 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, |
 | Paperwork Reduction or Information Reduction?
While as environmentally concerned as anyone, the latest idea to eliminate broadcast public files to save the trees, doesn't sound like a winner in the public interest department. |
 | AT&T / T-Mobile : Looking Like a Disaster
by Tracy Rosenberg
To this T-Mobile customer, last week's announcement of a proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile sent shivers up my spine. And not just because I anticipate a 25% increase in my monthly wireless bill.
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 | Text Message Petition: Take Action
Update: T-Mobile censoring Weedmaps.com. When Verizon refused to recognize the Abortion Right Action League's short code back in 2007, a petition with filed with the FCC. It just happened again. |
| Saving Public Access: Washington
On July 21st, CAP Act Sponsor Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin presented and withdrew an amendment to HR 3110 preventing channel-slamming and rearranging funding streams for public, educational and governmental channels. While she was forced to withdraw the amendment, Committee Chair Henry Waxman agreed to :llok more carefully at the issue and see what we can do". |
| California Assembly Passes Hate Speech Resolution
On June 21, 2010, the California Assembly passed Senator Cedillo's bill condemning an increase in media hate speech, particularly against Latinos, and called for more accurate and fair reporting.
Text of SCR 58 attached. |
 | The Media Attack Cluster
The Left Tracking Library has identified 76 individuals/organizations who compose a cluster of undue influence. There we are: holding up the 7th row. |
 | Collateral Murder: Whistleblowing 2010
Wikileaks - the new whistleblower website - came into being with a bang when they released a classified military video showing US service members shooting 2 Reuters reporters (and six others). |
| Officially The Worst: Comcast Wins
by Chris Morran, Consumerist
After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory -- it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010. |
| 16 Million Dollar Verdict in Strange Wrongful Death Case
by Sue Wilson
Sue Wilson reports from Sacramento where the Entercom radio chain was assessed a 16 million dollar wrongful death verdict in the Jennifer Strange case, where the Sacramento mother of three died after participating in a water-drinking contest at Sacramento radio station KDND. |
 | Race In The Media - from Loop 21
The myth of 21st Century U.S. society being post-racial and colorblind is critiqued and analyzed by "theloop21.com, a LA-based African-American owned on-line publication.
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 | Anti-Hate Speech Resolution Passes SF Board of Supervisors Unanimously
Update: On September 10th, Clearchannel station KNEW announced they were dropping Savage Nation from their SF schedule. On Tuesday August 11th, San Francisco became the first municipality in the country to support the National Hispanic Media Coalition's petition for an FCC docket and report on media hate speech and its possible impact on hate crimes. The vote was unanimous! |
| 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. |
| 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.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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".
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 | 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. |
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