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).
| 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. |
 | 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! |
 | Once More With Feeling: Media Must Report Gender Motivations for Mass Killings by Jennifer Pozner, WIMN's Voices A health club in Collier County, PA this week was the site of yet another horrific mass shooting by yet another disaffected man armed with ammo and a deep hatred of women. The shooter specifically targeted women, reportedly firing 52 shots, killing three women and injuring nine more before committing suicide. |
| Pictures from June 28th Picket: Stop Media Hate Speech On June 28th, before the Bay Area premiere of Broadcast Blues, community members gathered to advocate for an FCC docket and study of the impact of media hate speech. Click to see pictures! |
| Action Alert: Save San Francisco Public Access On Tuesday, May 19, 2009 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved, on first reading, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s State Video Franchise Holder Ordinance. |
| 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 |