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-  2006
Election
 "Republicans
See Long-Term Victory in Defeat on Stimulus Plan."
... "GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] Sees Positives In Negative Stand:
Leaders Seize On Spending Issue." ... "After giving the package zero [Republican]
votes in the House, and 0 with their [Republican] counterparts in the Senate
likely to provide in a crucial procedural vote today only the handful of
votes needed to avoid a filibuster, Republicans are relishing the opportunity
to make a big statement. [Texas Republican Representative] Rep. Pete Sessions
(R-Tex. [Representative-Texas]) suggested last week that the party is learning
from the disruptive tactics of the Taliban, and the GOP these days does
have the bravado of an insurgent band that has pulled together after a
big defeat to carry off a quick, if not particularly damaging, raid on
the powers that be." ... "And it means rallying to Rush Limbaugh, who has
put himself forward as a de facto party leader, penning an op-ed article
in the Wall Street Journal and accepting the on-air apologies of [Georgia
Republican Representative] Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga. [Republican-Georgia]),
who criticized the radio host and paid for it in a deluge of angry calls."
... "[Republican National Committee chairman Michael S. Steele congratulated
congressional Republicans in some of his first remarks as Republican chairman,]
"The goose egg that you laid on the president's desk was just beautiful,"
he told them. "You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind,
government -- federal, state or local -- has never created one job. It's
destroyed a lot of them."" ... "Steele is also facing a distraction --
a federal inquiry into allegations that his 2006 [election Maryland] Senate
campaign paid a defunct company run by his sister for services that were
never performed. The campaign's finance chairman made the allegations to
federal prosecutors last year as he sought leniency during plea negotiations
on unrelated fraud charges." -By Alec MacGillis and
Perry Bacon Jr. -WashingtonPost
 Media
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- Radio
- Market
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Diego - Sacramento
-  California
-  Ohio
-  Minnesota
-  Wisconsin
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"Another Right-Wing Conspiracy in Washington?" ... "The commercial use of public airwaves is supposed to reflect the diversity of the local community, but that's not how it works in Washington [DC, America's capital]. On the AM dial, WMAL (630) features wall-to-wall conservative talk. So do stations WTNT (570) and WHFS (1580). For the past two years, OBAMA 1260 -- even with a weak signal that cannot be heard in downtown Washington -- was the exception. No longer. Starting tomorrow, our nation's capital, where Democrats control the House, the Senate and the White House, and where Democrats outnumber Republicans 10 to one, will have no progressive voices on the air." ... "Or maybe one." ... "To mollify critics, Red Zebra has said it will add Ed Schultz to its conservative lineup on 570 AM. This means Shultz will be outgunned in this market by at least 15 conservative talkers: Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Chris Plante, Michael Smerconish, Michael Savage, Andy Parks, Fred Grandy, Bill Bennett, Monica Crowley, Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller and Lars Larsen. No matter how good Schultz is, that's not a fair contest -- nor a fair use of the public airwaves." ... "Unfortunately, what's happening in Washington reflects what has happened in one city after another across the country. In Miami [Florida], Clear Channel recently dumped progressive talk for sports: Clear Channel stations made the same move in San Diego [California] and Cincinnati [Ohio]. Sacramento [California] abandoned progressive talk for gospel music. In fact, according to a study released by the Center for American Progress and Free Press, there are nine hours of conservative talk for every one hour of progressive talk." ... "Why? Station owners complain they can't get good ratings or make any money with progressive talk, but that's nonsense. In Minnesota, independent owner Janet Robert has operated KTNF (950 AM) profitably for five years. In Madison, Wis. [Wisconsin], WXXM, 92.1 FM, just scored its highest ratings ever. And KPOJ in Portland, Ore. [Oregon], soared with progressive talk from No. 23 in market ratings to No. 1. Nationwide, progressive talkers Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller have proven that, given a level playing field, they can more than hold their own in ratings -- and make money for their stations." ... "In fact, the only reason there's not more competition on American airwaves is that the handful of companies that own most radio stations do everything they can to block it." ... "There is no free market in talk radio today, only an exclusive, tightly held, conservative media conspiracy." -By Bill Press -WashingtonPost
Michael
Steele - Radio
- Politics
- Corporate
- Media
- Government
- Marketing
"The RNC [Republican National Committee] begs for help on right wing talk radio." ... "C&Lers Tony and Karen emailed me this tidbit and I thought I would share." "Please take a look at the RNC [Republican National Committee] website - http://www.rnc.org/ On the right hand side is a link that goes to a list of all of the right wing radio shows, along with a plea to promote the RNC. The [Republican President] Bush administration was constantly denying that talk radio was just another arm of their party. The RNC seems to have given up this pretense. It was blatant government propaganda for eight years. Sickening!""Is there any doubt that Rush Limbaugh rules the GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican]? [Republican Chairman] Michael Steele has to beg for help from wingnut talk radio. How embarrassing. " -By John Amato -CrooksAndLiars.com 
 China
-  US
-  British
-  Hong
Kong -  Taiwan
-  Foreign
- Language
-  Websites
-  Police
- Law
- Journalists
- Radio
-  Sports
"China 'bans BBC Chinese website': China appears to have banned a number of foreign websites, including the [United Kingdom's British Broadcasting Corporation] BBC's Chinese language news site and Voice of America in Chinese." ... "The sites had been unblocked after journalists attending the Beijing [China's capital] Olympics complained that the government was censoring sites deemed sensitive." ... "The BBC expressed disappointment at the apparent reinstatement of the ban." ... "But a Chinese government spokesman told journalists that some sites contained content that violated Chinese law." ... "Among the other sites blocked are Asiaweek, Reporters Without Borders and some Hong Kong and Taiwan sites." ... "China imposes strict controls on the dissemination of information through the web, employing teams of people to remove sensitive content, police bloggers and remove access to certain sites." ... "In a statement, the BBC said it was disappointed that Chinese-speaking audiences in China were denied access to BBCChinese.com." ... "It said that except during the 2008 Games, the website had been blocked since its inception nearly a decade ago, and Mandarin radio broadcasts had been "subject to persistent frequency interference for decades"." -BBC/News BBCChinese.com
Radio
-
-  Opinion
- Politics
-  People
- 2008
Election -  Obama
- Government
-  Retirement
- Money
"Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger." ... "... [M]any on the losing end of last week's [2008] election want to hold on to their anger. And there are those in the media -- led by the likes of [radio talker Rush] Limbaugh and [Fox tv talker Sean] Hannity -- only too ready to feed that animus, along with their own ratings." ... "In a time when the nation calls out for cool leadership and rational discussion, Limbaugh stirs the caldron, a tendency he proved in a particularly grotesque way last week when he accused Obama's party of plotting a government takeover of 401(k) retirement plans." ... ""They're going to take your 401(k), put it in the Social Security trust fund, whatever the hell that is," Limbaugh woofed. "Trust fund, my rear end."" ... "A slight problem with Limbaugh's report: Obama and the Democrats have proposed no such thing." ... "To broadcast such a report -- so drained of context as to constitute a lie -- would be a shameless act at any time. But Limbaugh needlessly stirred the fears of the millions he holds in his thrall -- making the 401(k) thievery sound like nearly a done deal. Shameless." -By James Rainey -LAtimes
Secret
-  John
McCain - Terrorism
-  History
- Money
- Politics
- Radio
- Federal
- Law
- Enforcement
- 2008
Election -  Clinton
-  New
York - Arizona
"Why is the NY Times continuing to ignore McCain's "own Bill Ayers"?" ... "... [The New York[ Times has yet to mention, let alone devote an entire article to, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's relationship with radio host and convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy [Republican President Nixon associate]." ... "As Media Matters for America has noted, Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap "leftist guerillas" at the 1972 Republican National Convention -- a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis. (The murder, firebombing, and kidnapping plots were never carried out; the break-ins were.) During the 1990s, Liddy reportedly instructed his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents and also reportedly said he had named his shooting targets after [Democratic President] Bill and [New York Senator] Hillary Clinton." ... "Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain's campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy's radio show during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled "John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07" includes a discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an "old friend." During the segment, McCain praised Liddy's "adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great," said he was "proud" of Liddy, and said that "it's always a pleasure for me to come on your program."" ... "Additionally, in 1998, Liddy reportedly held a fundraiser at his home for McCain. Liddy was reportedly scheduled to speak at another fundraiser for McCain in 2000. The Charlotte Observer reported on January 23, 2000, that McCain's campaign vouched for Liddy's "character":" "His [McCain's] campaign officials said Liddy's character will appeal to many voters because he was following orders from [Republican] President Nixon and kept silent afterward.""Liddy's 2000 speech was reportedly canceled due to bad weather." ... "In his May 4 [Chicago] Tribune column, [columnist Steve] Chapman wrote:" "What McCain didn't mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers -- in the form of G. Gordon Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary. That was just one element of what Liddy did, and proposed to do, in a secret White House effort to subvert the Constitution. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him."" -By Jon Sime -MediaMatters.org 
 Jim
David Adkisson - Terrorism
- Media
-Politics
- Radio
- TV/Channel
-  Tennessee
- Religion
- Law
- Police
"Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity on accused shooter's reading list: 4-page letter outlines frustration, hatred of 'liberal movement'." ... "Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell [Tennessee] home of a man who said he attacked a church in order to kill liberals "who are ruining the country," court records show." ... "Knoxville police Sunday evening searched the Levy Drive home of Jim David Adkisson after he allegedly entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and killed two people and wounded six others during the presentation of a children's musical." ... "Knoxville Police Department Officer Steve Still requested the search warrant after interviewing Adkisson. who was subdued by several church members after firing three rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun into the congregation." ... "Adkisson targeted the church, Still wrote in the document obtained by WBIR-TV, Channel 10, "because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets."" ... "Adkisson told Still that "he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them in to office."" ... "Inside the house, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly [the latter two work for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp subsidiary Fox TV]." ... "The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday's mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of "the liberal movement," and he planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning." ... "Adkisson, 58, of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he stated his "hatred of the liberal movement," Owen said. "Liberals in general, as well as gays."" ... "Owen said Adkisson specifically targeted the church for its beliefs, rather than a particular member of the congregation." -By Hayes Hickman with contributions by Bob Fowler, J.J. Stambaugh, Frank Munger and Amy McRary -KnoxNews.com 
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"July 18 Deadline for Cross-Ownership Move Requests: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Gives Broadcasters, Media Activists Until July 18 to File Requests for Moving Appeal of FCC Decision." ... "The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave broadcasters and media activists until July 18 to file their requests for moving the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission's decision to loosen the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership." ... "That's according to one of the parties involved." -By John Eggerton -BroadcastingCable.com
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Kenya
- Terrorism
- Radio
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Agricultural
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Land
- Wealth
- British
- History
- "How
Kenya came undone: Long-simmering ethnic tensions
threaten to tear apart East Africa's most stable, prosperous country."
... "While the most recent spark for the violence was the deeply flawed
elections in which Mr. [Mwai] Kibaki was declared president, the underlying
source of the country's tension is a perception that one ethnic group –
Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe – has unfairly benefited from the nation's wealth
solely because of its proximity to people in power. Resentment between
Kenya's ethnic communities is chronic, observers say, but mistrust of Kikuyus
has been building ever since Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, took
power after independence from Britain in 1963." ... "Under Mr. Kenyatta
– himself a Kikuyu – Kikuyus rose to high positions in government, took
over major firms, and bought much of the farm land sold off by departing
white settlers in the fertile Rift Valley. But it took a sense of betrayal
to produce the violence of today, experts say. In 2002, a remarkably broad
coalition of opposition leaders from different ethnic groups overthrew
the 24-year dictatorship of President Daniel arap Moi. The new government
signed a memorandum of understanding to share power." ... "But in 2003,
Kibaki revoked that agreement and went back to the old habit of filling
government positions – including, crucially, the Electoral Commission of
Kenya – with personal allies and members of his own ethnic group, the Kikuyus.
Furious at what they considered a betrayal, and cut off from access to
power, former allies such as populist opposition leader Raila Odinga –
a member of the Luo ethnic group who claims that he won the Dec. 27 vote
– broke from the government and started a campaign for "majimbo,"
Swahili for self-rule, and resistance to Kikuyu domination." ... "For most
Kenyans, this tribal fight is not just about the presidency, but land –
the ultimate source of wealth in a mainly agricultural society. And the
Rift Valley – Kenya's bread basket – is the main battlefield, as small
"indigenous" armies with bows, arrows, and machetes march to expel the
Kikuyu "newcomers."" ... "Some politicians used radio broadcasts to spread
hatred against Kikuyus, and proclaimed that the time had come to remove
the "weeds" from their lands." ... "Stoked with hate, the ethnic clashes
began in earnest, particularly in the areas where Kikuyus had settled in
the Rift Valley. Between the elections of 1992 and 1997, more than 2,000
Kenyans were killed and more than 300,000 Kenyans were displaced, most
of them Kikuyus." ... "Politicians have used the belief that Kikuyus control
the economy as a battle cry, pitting Kikuyus as the perpetual "haves" against
the Luos, Kalenjins, and other tribes as the perpetual "have-nots."" (1,
2,
3,
4)
-By Scott Baldauf -CSMonitor
Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- 
South
Carolina - Radio
- Ads
- Economic
- Jobs
- 2008
Election - 
Illinois
- "Clinton,
Obama take war of words to airwaves." ... "Three
days ahead of South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary] Clinton aired a radio ad here
ridiculing [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama's
recent comments about Republican ideas." ... ""Aren't those the ideas that
got us into the economic mess we're in today?" the ad's narrator asks."
... "Obama, an Illinois senator who would be the first black U.S. [United
States] president, responded later in the day with his own radio ad bluntly
confronting Clinton." ... ""Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected,"
the narrator of Obama's ad says. "She'll say anything and change nothing.""
... ""Now she's making false attacks on Barack Obama," the ad's narrator
says." ... ""She championed NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement),
even though it has cost South Carolina thousands of jobs. And worst of
all, it was Hillary Clinton who voted for [Republican President] George
Bush's war in Iraq."" (1, 2,
3)
-By John Whitesides with contributions by Stuart Grudgings
-Reuters
Radio
- Advertising- Religious
- Rhetoric
- Politics
- Lawsuit
- 
Military
- "Advertisers
Drop Savage Over Hateful Remarks, USO Hints At Suit."
... "At least four major firms have pulled advertising from Michael Savage's
nationally syndicated radio show following a campaign highlighting his
inflammatory rhetoric. One other company, Geico insurance, is expected
to follow suit." ... "The campaign, launched
recently by Brave New Films, generated thousands of calls urging advertisers
on the Savage Nation show to sever financial ties to the widely popular
(and frequently offensive) talk host." ... "The USO [United Service Organizations],
a non-profit that does work for U.S. [United States] armed forces, wrote
Brave New Films complaining about being targeted and even hinting at a
lawsuit." ... ""Considering the USO's role in the world," said Leighton
Woodhouse, a spokesperson for Brave New Films, "we would have expected
them to be the first to distance themselves from someone who is deliberately
fanning the flames of hatred between Muslims and non-Muslims; we were sorely
disappointed."" -By Sam
Stein -HuffingtonPost.com
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- Hillary
Clinton
- Radio
- Ad
- 
Nevada
- Illinois
- 
Iowa- 
North
Carolina - "Edwards
hits Obama on independent ads." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards said Friday that [2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama needs to “speak
up, if he really means what he says” about ending divisive politics and
denounce a Nevada ad funded by an independent group that supports the Illinois
senator’s presidential bid." ... ""Everyone pledged that this kind of divisive
politics that divides the Democratic Party, and could divide America, would
come to an end. [Senator] Sen. Obama made that pledge, I was sitting five
feet from him when he made it," Edwards told the crowd at a Nevada campaign
event." ... "“And now it turns out that in the last 24 hours there's a
radio ad, a malicious radio ad, attacking [Senator] Sen. Clinton. That
is exactly the kind of divisive politics. It's being run right here, in
Las Vegas [Nevada]. I denounce it. This kind of ad, I don't care who's
doing it — in this case it's [Senator] Sen. Obama's supporters — but this
sort of thing needs to stop.["]" ... "“And from what I've seen, [Senator]
Sen. Obama has not said a single word about this. Nothing. When two days
ago, three days ago, he said on a stage in front of America and said, 'This
kind of politics has no place in America,’” said Edwards." ... "“He should
speak up, if he really means what he says, and this is not just talk, he
should speak up and denounce this type of divisive politics.”" ... "John
Edwards was criticized by Obama in Iowa for not calling an independent
group that supported the former North Carolina senator to demand they pull
ads they were running in support of his candidacy." -By
Rebecca Sinderbrand -CNN
Hillary
Clinton
- John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- Race
- Language
- Radio
- Ads
- Nevada
- Union
- Money
- 2008
Election - Iowa
- North
Carolina - "Clinton,
Edwards campaigns blast radio ads backing Obama."
... "The campaigns of [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidates]
Hillary Clinton and John Edwards took aim at [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama Thursday over radio ads in Nevada
funded by a third-party group that is backing his candidacy." ... "The
buy is allegedly being funded by the Unite Here Campaign Committee on behalf
of the Culinary Workers Union, which has endorsed Obama." ... "On a conference
call with reporters late this afternoon, Hispanic supporters of Clinton’s
presidential candidacy criticized the union for incorrectly implying that
“Si Se Puede” – a slogan associated with the late activist Cesar Chavez
– was also the Obama campaign’s official slogan." ... "John Edwards was
criticized by Obama in Iowa for not calling an independent group that supported
the former North Carolina senator to demand they pull ads they were running
in support of his candidacy. “When Sen. Obama says ‘turn the page,’ he
obviously means turn to whatever page is most convenient. He loudly and
repeatedly attacked independent ads by unions in Iowa as the product of
special interests,” said Edwards Deputy Campaign Manager Jonathan Prince."
... "“But when a different outside group starts running ads on his behalf
in Nevada, there's not a peep from him or his campaign. It must be because
he's burning up the phone lines calling the head of Unite Here personally
to demand he pulls the ads down right away.”" -By
Rebecca Sinderbrand -CNN
US
- 
Iran
- Military
- Radio
- 
Intelligence
- Video
- "U.S.:
Voices on Recording May Not Have Been From Iranian Speedboats:
Chilling Threat Could Have Come From the Shore or Another Ship, Navy Says."
... "Just two days after the U.S. [United States] Navy released the eerie
video of Iranian speedboats swarming around American warships, which featured
a chilling threat in English, the Navy is saying that the voice on the
tape could have come from the shore or from another ship." ... "The near-clash
occurred over the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz. On the U.S.-released
recording, a voice can be heard saying to the Americans, "I am coming to
you. You will explode after a few minutes."" ... "The Navy never said specifically
where the voices came from, but many were left with the impression they
had come from the speedboats because of the way the Navy footage was edited."
... "The Iranians have denied using the threatening language and are saying
U.S.-released video is fabricated." (1, 2)
-By Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl
-ABCNEWS.com
Declassified
- US
- Government
- 
Vietnam
- Military
- Intelligence
- Wireless
- Radio
- 
Electronic
- Communications
- "Declassified
study puts Vietnam events in new light: US [United
States] signals intelligence [SIGINT] during the war came up short in major
turning points, according to an NSA [National Security Agency] history."
... "US signals intelligence – the much-vaunted ability of American military
and spy units to eavesdrop on the radio calls and other electronic communications
of an adversary – failed at crucial moments during the Vietnam War, according
to a just-declassified National Security Agency history of the effort."
... "The 10,000 cryptographers and other signals personnel in Southeast
Asia at the time did not predict the start of the Tet offensive on Jan.
31, 1968. Prior to that, signals intelligence may have actually misled
[Democratic] President Johnson and other top policymakers about the nature
of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which a supposed North Vietnamese
attack on US forces triggered a major escalation in the war." ... "US eavesdroppers
had many successes during the war, according to the lengthy document, particularly
in picking up the tactical communications of North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong fighters in the field." ... "But when it comes to major events, signals
intelligence is not magic, as the history makes clear. That is a point
current policymakers would do well to remember as they struggle to interpret
intelligence dealing with the complex modern problems of nuclear proliferation
and Islamist extremism." ... "In both the Tet and Gulf of Tonkin cases,
"critical information was mishandled, misinterpreted, lost, or ignored,"
writes NSA historian Robert Hanyok in the agency history. " -By
Peter Grier -CSMonitor
Kevin
Jeffrey Martin - Corporate
- Government
- Politics
- Investigation
- Media
- Communications
- Broadcast
- Radio
- History
- Electronic
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E-Mails
Kevin
Jeffrey Martin - Corporate
- Government
- Politics
- Investigation
- Media
- Communications
- Broadcast
- Radio
-Historical
- E-Mails
Kevin
Jeffrey Martin - Corporate
- Government
- Politics
- Media
- Communications
- Broadcast/
- Radio
Media
- Business
- Politics
- Television
- Radio
- Telecommunications
- Illinois
- New
York
- "Plan
Would Ease Limits on Media Owners." ... "The head
of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan
to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule
that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio
station in the same city." ... "[Republican] Kevin J. Martin, chairman
of the commission, wants to repeal the rule in the next two months — a
plan that, if successful, would be a big victory for some executives of
media conglomerates." ... "Among them are Samuel Zell, the Chicago [Illinois]
investor who is seeking to complete a buyout of the Tribune Company, and
Rupert Murdoch, who has lobbied against the rule for years so that he can
continue controlling both The New York Post and a Fox television station
in New York." ... "The proposal appears to have the support of a majority
of the five commission members, agency officials said, although it is not
clear that Mr. Martin would proceed with a sweeping deregulatory approach
on a vote of 3 to 2 — something his predecessor tried without success.In
interviews on Wednesday, the agency’s two Democratic members raised questions
about Mr. Martin’s approach." (1, 2)
-By Stephen Labaton -NYTimes
Mitch
McConnell - 
Children
- 
Health
- Politics
- E-Mails
- Media
- Radio
- Ad
- Money
- 
Kentucky
- Maryland
- "McConnell
knew of e-mails about boy: TV interview included denial."
... "Senate Minority Leader [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell
knew last week --at a time when he was denying it -- that his staff had
sent e-mails encouraging reporters to look into the background of a 12-year-old
boy used by Democrats to support expansion of a health-care program." ...
"In an interview Friday with WHAS-TV reporter Mark Hebert, the Kentucky
Republican said his staff had not been involved in trying to push reporters
to look into the financial situation of the boy's family." ... "But McConnell's
communications director, Don Stewart, said in an interview Monday with
The Courier-Journal that he had told McConnell about the Oct. 8 e-mails
sometime around Thursday, the day before the interview with Hebert." ...
""The initial e-mails sent by Stewart were aimed at alerting reporters
that bloggers were raising questions about the boy, Graeme Frost of Baltimore
[Maryland], and his family's financial circumstances. He backed off that
claim in his subsequent e-mails, he said, based on a report from a blogger
whom he respected." ... "Stewart said he informed McConnell of his personal
role in the matter around Thursday." ... "The next day, Friday, Hebert
asked McConnell about the e-mails. The exchange was broadcast Sunday night
and again last evening." ... "Hebert asked the senator whether his office
was attempting to get reporters to look into Frost's background." ... ""No,"
McConnell answered." ... "The senator was then asked, "What was the deal
with the e-mail from your staffer?"" ... "McConnell replied: "There was
no involvement whatsoever."" ... "The boy and his family's circumstances
became an issue after he was recruited by the Democrats to respond to [Republican]
President Bush's Sept. 29 radio address regarding the expanded health program,
which Bush vetoed Oct. 3." ... "Graeme and his sister, Gemma, suffered
severe injuries in a 2004 car crash and were beneficiaries of the insurance
program." -By James R. Carroll
-Courier-Journal.com
Racism
- Radio
- Politics
- "Gibson
knew school shooter was white because "[b]lack shooters don't" shoot themselves;
"they shoot and move on"." ... "On the October 10
broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing
14-year-old Asa
H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high
school before killing himself, Fox News host [Republican] John
Gibson asserted that "because the school is very heavily African-American,
I did leap to a conclusion" that "the shooter might have been African-American."
Gibson went on to say that he "knew this was not a classic hip-hop shooting"
once he learned Coon killed himself. Gibson continued: "Hip-hoppers do
not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn't need to hear the kid
was white with blond hair. Once he'd shot himself in the head, no hip-hopper."
Gibson later stated, "I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as
he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot
again." Gibson added: "I know there's a few of you who want to call me
racist. But when you do, remind -- let me remind you, African-Americans
are dying in major cities because people won't face this problem."" ...
"After a commercial break, Gibson repeated his assertion: "All right, it
turns out, though, the kid in Cleveland who did the shooting today -- three
teachers, three students -- white." Gibson added: "And I could tell right
away 'cause he killed himself. Black shooters don't do that; they shoot
and move on."" -MediaMatters.org
US
- 
Iraq
- Military
- Television
- Radio
- Online-
"PEJ
Study: War Coverage Down, Campaign Reporting Up."
... "Coverage of events related to the Iraq War decreased during the second
quarter of 2007, but remained the top news issue, according to the Project
for Excellence in Journalism, which noted 15% of stories across print,
broadcast and online dealt with Iraq-related issues." ... "That is down
from 22% during the first quarter of the year. As in the first quarter,
the Fox News Channel devoted roughly half as much coverage to the war (8%)
than its rivals, CNN (18%) and MSNBC (15%)." ... "The PEJ study focused
on 48 different outlets from five sectors of the media -- newspapers, broadcast
television, radio, online, and cable." -By Joe Strupp
-EditorAndPublisher.com
Rudy
Giuliani
- Media
- Politics
- Opinion
-
- Radio
- Marketing
- Ohio
- New
York
- 2008
Election - "Giuliani's
Fox-y pal cash flap." ... "It's no secret that Sean
Hannity, the conservative Fox News commentator, has helped to raise [2008
election Republican Presidential Candidate] Rudy Giuliani's profile - but
now he's helped the former mayor [New York City, New York] raise money,
too." ... "In a little noticed event this month, Hannity - co-host of Fox
News' "Hannity & Colmes" and host of a popular WABC radio show - introduced
the Republican front-runner at a closed-door, $250-per-head fund-raiser
Aug. 9 in Cincinnati [Ohio], campaign officials acknowledge." ... "In so
doing, some believe that Hannity - while clearly a commentator paid to
express his opinions -crossed the line from punditry into financial rainmaking
for a presidential candidate whose bottom line is now better for it." ...
""Fox's in-kind contribution to Republican politicians in the form of softball
coverage is one thing," said Steve Rendall, senior analyst at Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting, a left-leaning media watchdog group. "But this
is the first time they have crossed this line into fund-raising."" ...
"More independent observers said Hannity's appearance underscored the blurring
lines between news and advocacy and could be interpreted as a kind of endorsement."
... "The Hotline, a political journal, has noted that through July 15,
Giuliani had enjoyed 115 minutes of free face time on Fox - more than half
of that on "Hannity & Colmes." His airtime on Fox was 25% higher than
any other Republican candidate, data show." -By David
Saltonstall -NYDailyNews.com
Don
Imus - Racism
- Money
- Radio
- Media
- Job
- Civil
Rights - Sports
- Women
- Politics
- "Don
Imus Sued by Rutgers Basketball Player." ... "Don
Imus is facing his first lawsuit from a player on the Rutgers Women's Basketball
team for derogatory comments that cost him his job as a radio host in April,
ABC News has learned." ... "Of the networks that aired "Imus in the Morning,"
the lawsuit alleges that they "wrongfully, intentionally, willfully ...
created, tolerated and maintained an atmosphere in which the making of
outrageous statements and comments was acceptable, encouraged, and/or rewarded
for many years prior to this occurrence and/or overtly encouraged the statements
made."" ... "The lawsuit alleges that use of the slanderous terms was intentional
and motivated by greed and financial gain: In using insults against otherwise
innocent people, Imus would get higher ratings, making more money for him
and his employers. Among other infractions, the suit alleges that Imus
violated the players' civil rights." ... "Earlier today, The Associated
Press reported that Imus had reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with
former employer CBS over his firing. ABC News has learned that Imus could
be back to broadcasting as early as January, and is being courted by major
media outlets. That settlement, said [attorney Richard] Ancowitz, rewards
Imus while leaving little justice for the women of the Rutgers basketball
team." (1, 2)
-By Lara Setrakian with contributions by Michelle
Ruiz and Lauren Pearle -ABCNEWS.com
Wireless
- Communications
- Market
- Emergency
- Radio
-
- 
- 
Technology
- "FCC
Rules Allow One Bidder To Buy More Than Half of Spectrum."
... "A single company could bid for more than half the lucrative spectrum
to be auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission after the
final rules for the sale failed to include a provision prohibiting this
from occurring." ... "There had been pressure on FCC policymakers to include
such a rule to ensure that an incumbent wireless carrier such as Verizon
Wireless or AT&T Inc. wouldn't be able to take the lion's share of
the spectrum being sold." ... "Potential new entrants to the market, such
as Google Inc., as well as a handful of public interest groups had been
pushing the FCC to include the rule." ... "Two sections make up 32 megahertz
of the 62 megahertz of prized airwaves being sold off. They include one
22-megahertz swath with so-called open-access requirements attached --
which is actually six separate pieces that can be added together, and another
10-megahertz chunk that will be used to provide wireless broadband service
to the emergency services community, with any spare capacity able to be
used for commercial purposes." ... "The remaining 30 megahertz has been
broken up into several hundred licenses." -By Corey
Boles -WSJ.com
Noteworthy
- Wireless
- Radio
- History
- Electronic
- Tech
- Human
- Animals
- WalMart
- Business
- Consumer
- Civil
Liberties - Politics
- "Microchips
in humans: High-tech helpers or Big Brother surveillance?"
... "City Watcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted
little notice itself -- until a year ago, when two of its employees had
glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their
forearms." ... "The "chipping" of two workers with RFIDs -- radio frequency
identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick
-- was merely a way of restricting access to vaults that held sensitive
data and images for police departments, a layer of security beyond key
cards and clearance codes, the company said." ... "But the news that Americans
had, for the first time, been injected with electronic identifiers to perform
their jobs fired up a debate over the proliferation of ever-more-precise
tracking technologies and their ability to erode privacy in the digital
age." ... "Thirty years ago, the first electronic tags were fixed to the
ears of cattle, to permit ranchers to track a herd's reproductive and eating
habits. In the 1990s, millions of chips were implanted in livestock, fish,
pets, even racehorses." ... "Microchips are now fixed to car windshields
as toll-paying devices, on "contactless" payment cards (Chase's "Blink,"
or MasterCard's "PayPass"). They're embedded in Michelin tires, library
books, passports and, unbeknownst to many consumers, on a host of individual
items at Wal-Mart and Best Buy." ... ""We're really on the verge of creating
a surveillance society in America, where every movement, every action --
some would even claim, our very thoughts -- will be tracked, monitored,
recorded and correlated," says Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology
and Liberty Program at the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington
D.C." -AP
via -CNN
Government
- Radio
- Phone
- 
Patent
- Tech
- Drug
- Laws
- Consumer
- Politics
- "UPDATE:
New Bush Aide Has Extensive Corporate Lobbying Ties."
... "The line between lobbying the federal government and running it just
got blurrier." ... "A new high-ranking adviser to President George W. Bush
will enter the White House with recent lobbying ties to dozens of companies
seeking the federal government's help on everything from proposed acquisitions
to patent disputes." ... "Ed Gillespie, named Wednesday as the next White
House counselor, is a partner in Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC,
a lobbying firm whose clients include: Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), which
needs antitrust approval to acquire a rival; Qualcomm (QCOM), which wants
Bush to veto a federal agency's ban on imported cell phones made with its
chips; and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a
trade group trying to limit drug industry regulation." ... "Consumer advocates
lamented Bush's decision to put Gillespie in his inner circle, fearing
that the interests of average citizens would be trumped by those of corporate
America." -AP
via -CNN
Radio
- 
Massachusetts
- People
- "'Open
Source' host Lydon asks listeners to assist show financially."
... "Is "Open Source" closing? Ever since the public radio program lost
its major backer, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, last October,
it has been openly soliciting funds. But the two-year-old program, which
is hosted and produced by Boston [Massachusetts] radio veteran Christopher
Lydon, reached a new level of seeming desperation last Friday, when Lydon
posted " S.O.S. from Open Source" on the program's website (radioopensource.org)
and a series of fund-raising e-mails went out urging potential donors to
call producer Mary McGrath's cellphone with pledges." ... ""We need the
money," said Lydon during a phone conversation yesterday. "We need to get
through the summer and solidify the foundation. This is the way public
broadcasting does it. We turn to the audience."" -By
Clea Simon -Boston/Globe
Los
Angeles - California
- US
Immigration - Children
- People
- Civil
Righs - Free
Speech - TV
- Radio
- Photo
- Journalist
- Censorship
- "Cop
Tactics At Immigration Rally Draw Ire: L.A. Police
Seen Firing Rubber Bullets Into Crowds That Included Children. " ... "Police
Chief William J. Bratton said Wednesday some of the police tactics to clear
immigration protesters from a park were "inappropriate," as numerous news
videos showed officers striking people with batons and firing rubber bullets
into crowds that included children." ... "After a peaceful day of immigration
marches, Los Angeles police say a small group in a downtown park pelted
them with rocks and bottles, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.
Police responded with force." ... "The Radio and Television News Association
of Southern California called for an investigation." ... ""There is evidence
that officers knocked reporters to the ground, used batons on photographers
and damaged cameras, possibly motivated by anger over journalists photographing
efforts by officers to control the movements of marchers," the group said
in a statement." -AP
via -CBSNews
Imus
- Racist
- Gay
- Woman
- Journalist
- Politician
- Radio
- Business
- 
University
- Women's
- Sports
- Opinion
- "[Howard]
Kurtz: "Imus made fun of blacks, Jews, gays, politicians. He called them
lying weasels. This was part of his charm"." ...
"On April 12, during a report on the controversy sparked by Don Imus' remarks
about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, ABC's World News
aired comments by Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, in
which he said: "Over the years, Imus made fun of blacks, Jews, gays, politicians.
He called them lying weasels. This was part of his charm." Kurtz's quote
aired shortly after CBS Radio announced
it would discontinue broadcasting Imus in the Morning." ... "Despite
Imus' propensity for incendiary remarks, Kurtz has previously been a guest
on the Imus program, a fact he acknowledged in his April 12 Washington
Post column.
Kurtz wrote: "Journalists like me who have gone on Imus's show have done
so because we enjoyed the opportunity to talk about politics and media
without the stuffiness of so many other programs. And it's probably true
that too many of us looked the other way when he went over the line with
some of his cruder comedy bits." Yet, as Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
documented,
Kurtz wrote in his 1996 book, Hot Air (Crown) that "Imus's sexist,
homophobic, and politically incorrect routines echo what many journalists
joke about in private."" -MediaMatters.org
Radio
- TV
- Business
- Opinion
- University
- Women's
- Sports
- People
- Gay
- Religion
- Politics
- Don
Imus - "It's
not just Imus." ... "On April 11, NBC News announced
that it was dropping MSNBC's simulcast of Imus in the Morning in the wake
of the controversy that erupted over host Don Imus' reference to the Rutgers
University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." The following
day, CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves announced
that CBS -- which owns both the radio station that broadcast Imus' program
and Westwood One, which syndicated the program -- has fired Imus and would
cease broadcasting his radio show. But as Media Matters for America has
extensively documented, bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other
characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity
continue to permeate the airwaves through personalities such as Glenn
Beck, Neal
Boortz, Rush
Limbaugh, Bill
O'Reilly, Michael
Savage, Michael
Smerconish, and John
Gibson." -MediaMatters.org
Don
Imus - Radio
- Media
- University
- Women's
- Sports
- People
- Politics
- "CBS
Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur: Dismissal Caps Week
Of Uproar Over Radio Host's Comments About Rutgers Women's Basketball Team."
... "CBS announced Thursday that it has fired Don Imus from his
radio program, following a week of uproar over the radio host's derogatory
comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team." ... ""There has been
much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people,
particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society,"
CBS
President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in
announcing
the decision." ... "One of those discussions took place at noon today
with a coalition of leaders from the civil rights and women's movements,
who said it was time for Imus to go, reports CBS News correspondent
Nancy Cordes." ... "Losing Imus will be a financial hit to CBS Radio,
which also suffered when shock jock Howard Stern departed for satellite
radio early last year. The program is worth about $15 million in annual
revenue to CBS, which owns Imus' home radio station, WFAN-AM in
New York, and manages Westwood One, the company that syndicates the show
across the country. CBS Corp. is also the parent company of CBSNews.com."
(1, 2)
-AP -CBSNews
Don
Imus - TV
- Radio
- Employee
- University
- Women's
- Sports
- Civil
Righs - Advertising
- Politics
- "MSNBC
Drops Imus Program Amid Furor Over Remarks." ...
"MSNBC said Wednesday it will drop its simulcast of the "Imus in the Morning"
radio program. The decision comes amid growing outrage about radio host
Don Imus' demeaning comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team."
... "Imus triggered the uproar on his April 4 show when he referred to
the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
His comments have been widely denounced by civil rights and women's groups."
... "The program originates from New York radio station WFAN and is syndicated
to other radio stations by CBS Radio. Both, like CBSNews.com, are part
of CBS Corp." ... "MSNBC's decision to drop the simulcast came after a
growing list of sponsors — including American Express Co., Staples Inc.,
Procter & Gamble Co., and General Motors Corp. — said they were pulling
ads from Imus' show for the indefinite future."
-WCBStv.com
John
Edwards
- Free
Speech - 2008
Election - Don
Imus - Media
- 
Entertainment
- Business
- Politics
- Language
- Women
- University
- Sports
- "Edwards
On Imus Spat: 'I Believe In Forgiveness: Presidential
Candidate Stays Mum On Future Imus Appearances." ... "Democratic Presidential
candidate John Edwards' spoke exclusively to CBS 2 on Wednesday morning
about the Don Imus and Rutgers University controversy, and though he feels
Imus deserves a second chance, he wasn't so sure about his future on Imus'
popular radio show." ... ""I believe in redemption, I believe in forgiveness,"
Edwards said of Imus, who was suspended earlier in the week after calling
the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos."" ... "Unlike candidates
Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, who say they will continue to appear on
Imus' radio show, Edwards says he hasn't seen enough from the shock jock
to make that decision just yet." ... ""What he said is wrong because it's
wrong. It has to be condemned, we have to speak out when people use this
kind of language," Edwards said. "This is a very serious matter, it should
be taken very seriously."" -By Marcia Kramer
-WCBStv.com
2008
Election - Don
Imus - Media
- Television
- 
Humor
- Business
- Employee
- Language
- Censorship
- Politics
- Women
- University
- Sports
- Daughters
- Human
Rights - PeopleIllinois
- "Obama:
Fire Imus: [Illinois Democratic Senator and Democratic
Presidential candidate] Obama [is] First White House Contender to Call
for Imus' Firing Over Racial Slur." ... "In an interview with ABC News
Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of
talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus'
show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television." ... ""I understand
MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say
that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they
made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would
hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."" ... "Obama said he appeared
once on Imus' show two years ago, and "I have no intention of returning.""
... ""He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of
the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with
today in America. The notions that as young African-American women — who
I hope will be athletes — that that somehow makes them less beautiful or
less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested
in supporting."" ... "Tuesday, the basketball team held a press conference."
... ""I think that this has scarred me for life," said Matee Ajavon. "We
grew up in a world where racism exists, and there's nothing we can do to
change that."" ... ""What we've been seeing around this country is this
constant ratcheting up of a coarsening of the culture that all of have
to think about," Obama said." ... ""Insults, humor that degrades women,
humor that is based in racism and racial stereotypes isn't fun," the senator
told ABC News." ... ""And the notion that somehow it's cute or amusing,
or a useful diversion, I think, is something that all of us have to recognize
is just not the case. We all have First Amendment rights. And I am a constitutional
lawyer and strongly believe in free speech, but as a culture, we really
have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information
are we feeding our kids," he concluded." (1, 2)
-By Jake Tapper with contributions by Clayton Sandell
-ABCNEWS.com
2008
Election - Don
Imus - Politicians
- Journalists
- NY
- Ariz
- "Rudy,
McCain say they forgive and support." ... "Embattled
radio host Don Imus is getting support from many of the politicians and
journalists who frequently grace his show - including presidential hopeful
[Republican] Rudy Giuliani." ... "Despite many calls for the shock jock's
resignation, Giuliani said he would again appear with Imus, and after talking
to him on the phone he believes Imus "understands that he made a very,
very big mistake."" ... "[Republican Presidential candidate and Arizona
Senator] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a frequent guest whose campaign Imus
has backed, said he would continue to appear with the cranky commentator."
... "[Democratic Presidential candidate and New York Senator] Sen. Hillary
Clinton (N.Y.), however, said Imus' cracks just confirmed her opinion."
... ""I've never wanted to go on his show and I certainly don't ever intend
to go on his show, and I felt that way before his latest outrageous, hateful,
hurtful comments," she said." -By Jonathan Lemire
-NYDailyNews.com
US
- Government
- Money
- Politics
- Legislators
- Election
2006 - TV
- Radio
- Ads
- 
Washington
- 
Virginia
- 
Indiana
- 
Connecticut
- Iraq
- 
Afghanistan
- Military
- "Dems
using hourly wage issue against GOP rivals." ...
"Democratic challengers in more than two-dozen House and Senate races are
attacking Republicans in Congress for taking pay raises while voting against
a minimum wage increase." ... "The attacks are contained in television
and radio ads running from Washington state to Virginia. In some races,
such as House contests in Indiana and Connecticut, Democrats also link
pay raises to Republican votes against combat bonuses for U.S. troops fighting
in Iraq and Afghanistan." ... "Most members of Congress currently earn
$165,200 a year; top leaders earn more. That's $31,600 more than in 1997,
when the federal minimum wage was raised to the current $5.15 an hour.
Unless legislators act during a lame-duck session after [2006] Election
Day, lawmakers who will be part of the Congress that convenes in January
will get an automatic 2% raise to $168,504." -By Andrea
Stone -USATODAY
US
Immigration - Law
- Politics
- Language
- Los
Angeles - California
- Media
- "How
DJs Put 500,000 Marchers in Motion." ... "He's one
of the hottest Spanish-language radio personalities in the nation. So when
Los Angeles deejay Eddie Sotelo joined hands with his radio rivals to urge
listeners to turn out for a pro-immigrant rally in downtown Los Angeles
[California] on Saturday, organizers hoped for a big turnout." ... "But
many said Monday that they were stunned by how many responded to the call
to march against federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented
immigrants and penalize those who assist them." ... "As a result, what
was initially expected to draw fewer than 20,000 ballooned into a massive
march that police estimated at 500,000 and said was one of the largest
demonstrations in Los Angeles' history." ... "The deejays did more than
publicize the march. Working with the organizers, they also helped develop
some ground rules: Marchers had to be peaceful and clean up after themselves."
... "They were also encouraged to wave American flags." (1, 2)
-By Teresa Watanabe and Hector Becerra with contributions
by Scott Martelle -LAtimes
Language
- Computer
- Internet
- Radio
- Media
- "`Podcast'
is lexicon's Word of the Year." ... "The editors
of the New Oxford American Dictionary have validated the sudden spread
of podcasting by naming "podcast" the Word of the Year for 2005." ... ""Podcast,"
defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program,
made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player,"
will be added to the next edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary."
... "The word originated as a play on the word "broadcast" using the name
of Apple's popular handheld digital music player, the iPod." -By
Nathan Bierma -ChicagoTribune
Iran
- Entertainment
- TV
- Radio
- 
Music
- Religious
- Law
- History
- "Iran's
president bans all Western music." ... "Hard-line
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned all Western music from Iran's
state radio and TV stations — an eerie reminder of the 1979 Islamic revolution
when popular music was outlawed as "un-Islamic" under Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini." ... "But as revolutionary fervor started to fade, some light
classical music was allowed on Iranian radio and television; some public
concerts reappeared in the late 1980s." ... "In the 1990s, particularly
during the presidency of reformist Mohammad Khatami starting in 1997, authorities
began relaxing restrictions further." ... "Ahmadinejad's order means the
state broadcasting authority must execute the decree and prepare a report
on its implementation within six months, according to the IRAN Persian
daily." -AP
via -USATODAY
Political
- Government
- Radio
- TV
- Media
- Editorial
- Money
- History
- "Report:
Former CPB chair violated law: Is accused of trying
to turn public radio, TV into GOP mouthpiece." .. "The former chairman
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting broke federal law by interfering
with PBS programming and appearing to use political tests in hiring the
corporation's new president, internal investigators said Tuesday."
.. "The corporation - which funnels hundreds of millions of federal dollars
to National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting Service and noncommercial
radio and television stations - was created by Congress in the late 1960s
to shield public broadcasting from political influence." .. "Specifically,
the report said [Republican Kenneth Y.] Tomlinson violated the Public Broadcasting
Act of 1967 and ethical standards by dealing directly with one of the creators
of the conservative-leaning "Journal Editorial Report," hosted by the editor
of The Wall Street Journal editorial page."
-AP via -MSNBC
US
- World
- Karl
Rove
- Political
- Government- Radio
- Television
- Language
- Media
- "Rove
friend is at center of inquiry." ... "Kenneth Tomlinson,
who is also a close friend of Karl Rove, the White House political guru,
was removed last week from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
after its inspector general concluded an investigation that was critical
of him. That examination looked at his efforts as chairman to seek more
politically conservative programs on public radio and television in the
United States." ... "But Tomlinson remains an important official as the
chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, whose members include
the secretary of state. It supervises the U.S. government's foreign broadcasting
operations, including the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Sawa
and Alhurra, transmits programs in 61 languages and says it has more than
100 million listeners each week." ... ""People involved in the inquiry
said that investigators had already interviewed a significant number of
officials at the agency and that if the accusations were substantiated,
they could involve criminal violations." -By Stephen
Labaton with contributions by Steven R. Weisman
-NYTimes via -IHT.com
Uganda
- 
- Free
Speech -
-
- "In
Uganda, when does brash talk radio become sedition?
Radio talk show host Andrew Mwenda angered Uganda's government after controversial
remarks." ... "As political editor and columnist for the independent Daily
Monitor, and as talk show host for the paper's radio station, KFM, Mr.
Mwenda has earned a reputation as a sharp critic of Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni." ... "But Mwenda crossed a line August 10, when he blamed the
Ugandan government for the death of Sudanese Vice President John Garang,
who died last month in a helicopter crash." ... "Uganda's broadcasting
council took KFM off the air the next day, later saying his program was
likely to lead to violence. Then the government jailed him for three days.
Mwenda was freed on bail last week, but he now faces charges of sedition,
which could entail a five-year jail term." -By Blake
Lambert -CSMonitor
Mauritania
-
-
-
-
- "Troops
in Mauritania Seize State Media." ... "Presidential
guard troops in Mauritania's capital took control of the national radio
and television stations Wednesday and seized a building housing the army
chief of staff headquarters while the president was out of the country,
witnesses said." ... "Heavily armed soldiers deployed in force around the
presidential palace, ministries and other strategic buildings and on the
streets of the capital Nouakchott, blocking key roads and several entrances
to the city, an Associated Press reporter on the scene said. " -By
Ahmed Mohamed -Guardian.co.uk
Mauritania
-
-
-
-
- 
- "Army
officers declare coup in Mauritania: Members of presidential
guard take over TV, radio, block streets in capital." ... "A group of Mauritanian
army officers announced the overthrow of the nation's president on Wednesday,
hours after troops took control of the national media and seized the army
chief of staff headquarters in the capital of this oil-rich Islamic nation."
... "The group, which identified itself as the Military Council for Justice
and Democracy, announced the coup against President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Taya,
who was abroad, through the state-run news agency."
-AP and -Reuters
contributions via -MSNBC
- 
-
- Microsoft
News - "Microsoft
faces new antitrust battle." ... "A new front in
the Microsoft antitrust wars was opened on Thursday as rival software maker
RealNetworks accused the company of illegally trying to monopolise the
market for digital media software and said it would seek damages of more
than $1bn." -By Richard Waters and Scott Morrison
-FT.com
-
-
-
- "MLB.TV
Puts Live Games Online." ... "Looking to cash in
on the popularity -- and exclusivity -- of online audio broadcasts of baseball
games, Major League Baseball's Web portal on Tuesday launched a new MLB.TV
service that offers on-demand and live access to pay-per-view video feeds."
... "The MLB.TV service, an extension of a three-year exclusive deal with
Seattle-based RealNetworks (Quote,
Company
Info) will employ IP tracking to protect network television rights
of local games but, because the technology has been unreliable as a geo-location
tool, it's likely to raise the ire of MLB's television partners that shell
out billions of broadcast rights." ... "According to Arbitron's Webcast
Audience Profiles, fans who tune in and pay for baseball Webcasts were
a prized lot." -By Ryan Naraine
-InternetNews.com
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- "Liberal
Radio Is Planned by Rich Group of Democrats." ...
"The group, led by Sheldon and Anita Drobny, venture capitalists from Chicago
who have been major campaign donors for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is in
talks with Al Franken, the comedian and author of "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big
Fat Idiot." It hopes to enlist other well-known entertainers with a liberal
point of view for a 14-hour, daily slate of commercial programs that would
heavily rely on comedy and political satire." ... "The plan faces several
business and content challenges, from finding a network of radio stations
to buy the program to overcoming the poor track record of liberal radio
shows. But it is the most ambitious undertaking yet to come from liberal
Democrats who believe they are overshadowed in the political propaganda
wars by conservative radio and television personalities." -By
Jim Rutenberg -NYTimes
via -Google-News
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- "Liberal-leaning
radio network planned." ... ""We believe this is
a tremendous business opportunity," Atlanta radio executive Jon Sinton
said Monday. Sinton, who would be the network's chief executive, added,
"There are so many right-wing talk shows, we think it's created a hole
in the market you could drive a truck through."" ... "The group, led by
Anita Drobny, consists of investors who have financially supported Democratic
candidates." ... "Their group will be called AnShell Media L.L.C. and they
are initially investing $10 million while hoping for assistance from like-minded
entrepreneurs." -By Will Lester
-AP via -Salon
http://nih.gov/news/radio
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U.S. Census Bureau - Profile America - "Profile America is a daily, 60-second features that uses interesting vignettes from key events, observances or commemorations for that day to highlight information collected by the Census Bureau. Radio stations may download these files from the Internet or request a CD of these features by calling (301)763-3011 or writing broadcast@census.gov." ... "Sound files for Profile America features are available for audition in RealAudio format and downloadable broadcast quality .mp3 files." - http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/radio/paindex.html
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