corporate media

Why Not Occupy Newsrooms?

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:55:49 -0400

Full article: New York Times
David Carr
Forget about occupying Wall Street; maybe it's time to start occupying Main Street, a place big media enterprises have bled dry by offering less and less news while dumping and furloughing journalists in seemingly every quarter. The consequences of bad decisions by media CEOs have landed on everyone except those who made them.

Protesters Angry at News Corp. Push for Rupert Murdoch Ouster

Stevie Converse — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:10:22 -0400

Full article: Los Angeles Times
Jessica Gelt
As News Corp.'s annual shareholders meeting got underway Friday, about 125 vocal activists gathered in front of 20th Century Fox studio, calling for the resignation of Rupert Murdoch and railing against the media giant's mishandling of the phone hacking scandal. The overarching theme that emerged was that there were crooks in power and it was time to make a change.

Leaked FCC Doc Reveals Details of AT&T's Strategy for T-Mobile Deal

Stevie Converse — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:37:31 -0400

Full article: TechCrunch
Jordan Crook
A partially redacted letter from AT&T lawyers to FCC officials was accidentally posted on the FCC website, and it reveals quite a bit about AT&T's strategy for its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile. What's best for AT&T isn't what's best for everyone, and it's the FCC and the Department of Justice's job to ensure the public interest is protected at all costs, regardless of AT&T's preferences and financial situation.

U.S. Media Groups Buy Back Shares

Stevie Converse — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:32:01 -0400

Full article: Financial Times
David Gelles
Large cash piles at big U.S. media companies have led to a wave of buy-backs that have returned more than $14 billion to shareholders this year. Led by television groups including Time Warner, Time Warner Cable and Disney, media companies have executed the third-most buy-backs of the 67 company groups it tracks.

This Media Is Corrupt -- We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Journalists

Stevie Converse — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:54:24 -0400

Full article: Guardian
George Monbiot
The corporate media is a gigantic astroturfing operation: a fake grassroots crusade serving elite interests. Most national journalists are embedded, immersed in the society, beliefs and culture of the people they are meant to hold to account. They are fascinated by power struggles among the elite but have little interest in the conflict between the elite and those they dominate. But this is just part of the problem.

It's Now 'NBC Owned Television Stations'

Stevie Converse — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:29:58 -0400

Full article: TV News Check
Harry A. Jessell
The newly installed head of the NBC O&Os made it clear what her priority is, changing the name of the station group from NBC Local Media to NBC Owned Television Stations.

Corporate Media Missing Stories as Corporations Quash Coverage

Stevie Converse — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:27:47 -0400

Full article: The UpTake
Sam Mayfield
As you might expect, members of the independent media spoken to by The UpTake at the National Conference For Media Reform generally had low opinions of the corporate-owned media. But attendees at the conference are also worried about another corporate ill: the control corporations want to exert over a tool citizens and independent media have been using to go around corporate owned news channels. That tool is your cell phone.

Google 2.4 Percent Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes

Stevie Converse — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:13:14 -0400

Full article: Bloomberg
Jesse Drucker
Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization. The U.S. corporate income-tax rate is 35 percent.

Media Minutes: June 11, 2010

Stevie Converse — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:11:17 -0400

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) made it clear to Comcast and NBC that the proposed merger of the two companies should not simply be rubber-stamped. And online newspaper San Francisco Public Press is about to launch its first print edition with the help of more than 50 journalists and other nonprofit groups.

Media Minutes: June 11, 2010

Stevie Converse — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:05:46 -0400