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wired is finally covering NAB protests wired is finally covering the nab protests...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 4:23pm PDT
audio of NAB protests Big Broadasting's biggest players get roasted outside their own convention. This is the press conference you would expect them to hold, but are too chicken to speak the truth. Total running time: 24:17 - Posted on the A-Infos Radio Project (click link below)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 3:02pm PDT
inspired by colin powell these are the notes I made for an ad-lib story phoned to KBOO....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:41pm PDT
Labor unions support NAB panel Labor unions endorse actions Panel Thursday night...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:07pm PDT
Zapatista Women Seize Radio Station Zapatista women peacefully seized a radio station to demonstrate for the rights of women and indigenous Indians, on International Women's Day, March 2000....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 10:07am PDT
NAB: Airwaves Belong to the People Drafted by FAIR and signed by media activists including Noam Chomsky, Bob McChesney & Ben Bagdikian, this letter reminds the NAB that the airwaves belong to the people....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 6:38am PDT
NAB Hate Radio Olympics It’s no accident that the Marconi Radio Award nominees include Don Imus, Howard Stern, and Rush Limbaugh, while past winners include Limbaugh, Stern, and Dr. Laura. Their styles of hate radio, carefully blended with plausible deniability, are anything but an abberation from the norm that America’s corporate broadcast media have sunk to....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:33am PDT
The NAB and Dr. Laura “Dr.” Laura isn’t really a doctor--her degree is in physiology, not psychiatry or psychology. Nothing else about her is exactly what it seems, either. Thanks to the highly effective grassroots group StopDrLaura.com, people are fimally starting to get the picture....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:29am PDT
The NAB and Don Imus Don Imus is so well connected to elite media and politicians, he couldn’t possibly be doing hate radio, could he? Not unless hate radio is integral to America’s corporate media system!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:24am PDT
The NAB and Howard Stern Howard Stern is far cruder than the other NAB Hate Radio Olympians, but he’s still too slick for the corporate media to catch on to. Could it be they’re not really trying?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:19am PDT
The NAB and Rush Limbaugh Limbaugh’s style of hate radio, embedded in a wildly distorted view of reality, is perhaps the most deeply embedded in the basic assumptions of America’s corporate media. In fact, he’s got more in common with PBS’s Newshour than you’d ever imagine....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:15am PDT
Prague authorities revoke permits for demos Prague authorities have revoked permits for all street demonstrations on September 26th.
This obvious abuse of power probably won't stop the thousands of activists gearing up to disrupt the IMF/World Bank meetings next week.
Activists from around the globe can also help out by signing the open protest letter to Czech President Vaclav Havel (once political prisoner himself), and by faxing it to his office and/or sending email.
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Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 12:40am PDT
NAB Propaganda Against LPFM Fearful that the FCC would respond favorably to grassroots demands for LPFM, the NAB launched an aggressive
PR offensive to sway public opinion. The attached PDF file, a facsimile NAB "Anti-LPFM Kit" shows the extent that the NAB has gone to prevent media from created at the community level....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 11:15pm PDT
Seattle, Cancel the Debt Now! Show your support and tell the IMF/WB to
CANCEL THE DEBT NOW !!!
Seattle, WA 9/24/00 1:30PM...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 10:28pm PDT
LPFM Legislation and NPR Involvement LPFM activist Peter Franck of the National Lawyers Guild on Democratic Communications issues a superb assessment of anti-LPFM legislation and NPR's role in it all....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 10:18pm PDT
LPFM applications results No more than 500 LPFM applicants entered in the second window.......
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 9:55pm PDT
The Media Big Six We should consider how to break the hammerlock that huge firms currently maintain around the windpipe of the First Amendment. And we'd better hurry.The trend lines of media ownership are steep and ominous in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 9:03pm PDT
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