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Media Minutes: October 24, 2008

candace — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:20:10 -0700

Public interest groups and tech innovators are cheering an FCC report that may clear the way for using empty TV channels to connect millions of people to the Internet. And dozens of small, independent magazines have been forced to shut down their operations.

Media Minutes (2008-10-24)

candace — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:57:17 -0700

Fund Independent Media

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:47:13 -0700

Media for Us: Take Back the Media

Mary Alice Crim — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:02:38 -0700

Start: 10/03/2008 - 07:03

End: 10/11/2008 - 17:53

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Media Reform week is here to give you ideas, hope and friends to join with on the journey to taking back our media. More information is available here.

St. Paul's Police Protest the Press

Stevie Converse — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:40:14 -0700

Unprecedented Police Riot Against Peaceful Protesters and Journalists

Stevie Converse — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:18:47 -0700

Dan Rather Speaks About Media Consolidation at the Big Tent's Digg Stage

Stevie Converse — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:28:54 -0700

My Take on NCMR 2008

Stevie Converse — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:46:26 -0700

About a month ago, I attended the National Conference for Media Reform 2008—first time I’ve attended one of these things. I really didn’t know what to expect. I wanted to get more informed about what’s gone wrong with our mainstream media and get a better handle on what I can do as a concerned citizen.

ReelChanges.org: Tax-Deductible Public Financing of Quality-Screened Documentary Projects

hplotkin — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:19:00 -0700

FUFA Takes on Media Ownership

FUFA — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:56:00 -0700

FUFA (Females United for Action) is “a coalition of young women leaders that is dedicated to educate not only ourselves, but others as well, on issues that affect women and girls. We organize to bring attention to the issues and take action to address them. FUFA is formed by girls and young women from all over the city of Chicago, from all backgrounds & nationalities, ranging from 12 years of age & up.”

Iraq Veterans Against War, one Long Island mans account, and the bigger issue of propaganda and censorship in the war

Sun, 18 May 2008 12:35:00 -0700

A censored war, censored veterans, media black
out of Pentagon propaganda "experts" on their payroll and the upcoming
war with Iran. What is the facts? will we ever know?

We start
our story with Joe Everybody, Kristofer Goldsmith,who starts his on
Sept. 11 2001, with rage in his heart, he signed up to protect America

Eco-media in the Arts: Transnational Temps

deck — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:48:00 -0700

Why "Earth Art for the 21st Century"? Like a lot of people, the artists who formed Transnational Temps in 2001 (info about the collective follows this article) sensed that coverage of global warming and other environmental issues was woefully inadequate. Commercially sponsored "informative" programming continues to suffer from attention deficit disorders, to say nothing of conflicts of interest. The Internet has presented a means to address the situation.

Join Us In Minneapolis

headzup — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:32:00 -0700

As many of you already know, Headzup's satirical cartoons have been known to traverse the globe within minutes of publication by being passed from cell phone to cell phone as forwarded picture messages. By carefully crafting our daily cartoons to "fly under the radar" of monopolistic mobile network operators, we are working to establish an early beachhead from which other progressive voices can be heard.

Amy Goodman Interview

Stevie Converse — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:38:43 -0700

Amy Goodman is one of the leading journalists of our time. -She is executive producer and host of Democracy Now, a daily, independent radio and television news program broadcast on 650 stations around the world.

Palabras de Resistencia de Medios/Words of Media Resistance

Poor News Network — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:34:00 -0700

Pobreza,
Raza, Discapacidad y intellectuales Migratorios de la Prensa Pobre y
Voces De Inmigrantes en Resistancia testifican la verdad a la FCC sobre
el asunto de la Neutralidad del Internet.

Poverty, Race, Disability and Migrant scholars from
PoorNewsNetwork(PNN) in collaboration with Media organizers from all
ova da bay speak truth to the FCC on Net Neutrality

Selling You on Big Media

Josh Stearns — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:22:00 -0700

Here at Free Press we work on three main areas of media policy.
We focuses on issues of media ownership, the future of the Internet, and noncommercial or public media. We have always seen these three issues as intimately connected to the health of our democracy.

A recent story points out the overlap of these three issues and reminds us why each is so vitally important. Last week NBC Universal (owned by General Electric) announced that it was teaming up with an ad agency to create special shows around new products. Now ad writers and company shills will be writing your sitcoms.

Meet me in Minneapolis

Amy Goodman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:08:00 -0700

We started Democracy Now! for a simple reason: to uncover the truth and to tell the stories that most media ignore. One of the most important stories they are missing is the exciting grassroots movement for better media.

Corporate Media vs. Community Television

mpetti — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:38:00 -0700

One of the greatest lifestyle advertisements that exist in
the technology world today is the “Mac vs. PC” ad. It’s priceless, really. The marketers at Mac should win an award for
that one. Young vs. old, hip vs. lame, traditional
vs. unconventional, it’s all there.

Advocacy or Research - In the Eye of the Beholder?

tellsomebody — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:00:00 -0700

”…the role of advocate is, no matter what kind of information comes out, to sort of disparage it, and, you know, they’re fighting for a result, not the truth. And they already think they know the truth..”

Slavery: Alive and well in USA Pt.2, Indian pipefitters abused in H2B Visa scam, MSM picks up story full year after facts releas

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:13:00 -0700

Main Stream Media, are they lazy, or is it in their best interest not to report factual information.