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 | Court Challenge to Fleeting Expletives
by Jonathan Rintels, Center for Creative Voices In Media
Update: On June 21st, the Supreme Court overturned indecency penalties against Fox Broadcasting and ABC broadcasting, but declined to overturn the larger indecency regulatory structure initiated in the 1978 Pacifica vs FCC case immortalized by George Carlin as "The Seven Dirty Words". See below a press release from the Center for Creative Voices in Media. |
 | FBI Seizes Riseup Server
On April 18th, the FBI removed a server from the colocated hub in NYC shared by Riseup, The May 1/People First Collective and ECN. |
 | 2012 Board Election
by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance
It's that time again. MA members, we need you to vote in our uncontested board election and ratify some bylaws changes. |
 | A Left Mayoral Forum
MA joined with a dozen Oakland community groups to sponsor an October 11th forum hosted by Wilson Riles Jr. Watch the video! |
 | Turmoil at PBS
by Michael Getler, PBS
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler discusses the uproar over the Bechtel/Schwab-funded documentary: Turmoil and Triumph: The George Schultz Years. |
| Friends in Trouble: UC Protests
Two long-time MA friends are among the many facing some trouble for participating in the Education Day of Action on March 4th. |
 | Media Alliance Statement on Flashpoints
by Tracy Rosenberg
October 18th, 2009
As longtime advocates in KPFA's struggle a decade ago and the network democratization that followed: here are our thoughts on the appeal put out by Flashpoints after the program was hit hard by budgetary reductions.
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| National Writer's Union Opposes Google Book-Scanning Settlement
The National Writers Union today announced its opposition to the proposed $125 million settlement of a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit brought by writers and publishers against Google because its massive book-scanning project violated their copyrights.
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| Media Alliance's Spot.us Tips
Spot.us is an exciting initiative in community-funded journalism that directly connects journalists with citizens who want to see stories told. |
| What Happened to INN?
The International News Net (INN), a 5-day a week newscast on Free Speech TV, produced for seven years by a largely volunteer progressive news collective, recently canceled production. What happened? |
| Bay Area Toxic Tour
Spot.us is an innovative direct-funding mechanism for independent journalism. Check out the recent story on the Port of Oakland and pollution in East Oakland. |
| Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
by Clay Shirky, Shirky.com
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. |
| The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
by Robert McChesney and John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Communities across America are suffering through a crisis that could leave a dramatically diminished version of democracy in its wake. It is not the economic meltdown, although the crisis is related to the broader day of reckoning that appears to have arrived. The crisis of which we speak involves more than mere economics. Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States. |
| Video of "A Conversation About the Chronicle"
Video of the Society of Professional Journalists event "A Conversation About the Chronicle" at the San Francisco Public Library at: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=460 |
| Hearst Threatens to Close the Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle, a newspaper industry icon, is teetering on the brink of collapse unless it can find a buyer or wring painful concessions from its employee unions. |
| On the Police and Nadra Foster
This is a transcript of a talk by noted civil rights attorney Osha Neumann given on January 22nd at La Pena at a benefit for the volunteer journalist. |
| Resisting the Corporations: Indymedia and the Knight Foundation
A $200,000 grant proposal, submitted by a group of Indymedia volunteers to the Knight News Challenge contest, has been blocked by other IMCs and subsequently dropped due to the abiding ethos that Indymedia is a counter to corporate, money-fixated media entities.
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| Ciudad Juarez Crime Reporter Murdered
El Diario de Juarez journalist Armando Rodriguez Carreon was well-known for countless stories about gangland killings in his hometown of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua |
| Terrorizing Dissent: The Story of St Paul
Twin Cities Indymedia and the Glass Bead Collective have assembled a 30 minute video documenting the surveillance, pre-emptive raids and arrests at the 2008 Republican Convention in St Paul, MN. The film is available online (if you've got some bandwidth). |
 | Interested in Community Media? Be a KPFA Program Council Rep.
KPFA is looking for Listener Representatives to sit on the KPFA Program Council. The Program Council is a vital part of the functioning of KPFA - a working committee composed of a diverse group of staff, board, management and listeners meeting to coordinate and schedule programming and to review proposals for new programs on KPFA. |
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