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RUSSIA: Media Coalition Call On Putin To Reject Restrictive Media Law Amendments
November 20, AP/Yahoo
Also see:
  • Worldwide Media Groups Urge Putin Against Censoring Press With Antiterrorism Laws (PRESS RELEASE)

UK: Communications Bill Unveiled: Foreign Ownership, New Regulation Could Transform British Media
November 20, MediaGuardian.co.uk
Also see:
  • Under New Communications Bill, UK Public Broadcasters Will Have To Pay Sky For Carriage
  • U.S. Radio Giant Clear Channel Eyes UK's Biggest Commercial Stations

US: Net Spying Gets OK From Secret Court
November 20, CNET News.com via Journalism.org
Also see:
  • Court Ruling Raises Red Flag Over Privacy
  • Secret Court Overturns Limits On Surveillance To Combat Terror

US: Critics Say Personal Privacy Takes Alarming Hit With Passage Of Homeland Security Bill
November 20, SFGate.com
Also see:
  • Homeland Security Bill Has Internet Provisions
  • New Homeland Security Bill Sacrifices Freedom Of Information, Media Groups Warn (PRESS RELEASE)
  • Homeland Security Bill Would Greatly Expand Internet Surveillance
  • Safire: Say Goodbye To Personal Privacy (COMMENTARY)

US: Radio Deregulation Report Finds Less Diversity, Competition on the Air
November 19, Center for Digital Democracy via Benton Foundation
Also see:
  • FMC Issues Damning Report On Radio-Biz Consolidation

INTERNATIONAL: New UN Report Shows Internet Use In Africa And Asia Grew Over 40% In 2001
November 19, BBC

US: Fox TV Chairman Rejects Allegations That He Gave President Advice After September 11
November 19, Washington Post
Also see:
  • Bob Woodward's New Book "Bush At War" Hits Bookstores

US: Pentagon Begins Training Reporters For Possible War In Iraq
November 18, Reuters via Moreover.com

INTERNATIONAL: U.S. Radio Giant Clear Channel Eyes UK's Biggest Commercial Stations
November 18, Washington Post
Also see:
  • Clear Channel Hires Democratic Staffer As Lobbyist

US: Youth-Led Study Finds Clear Channel Radio Station Fails To Serve Community
November 13, Youth Media Council
Also see:
  • Download the community assessment report on KMEL (PDF file)

US: Magazines Keep Cover Models White, Fearing Black Faces Are Bad Business
November 18, The New York Times (free registration req'd)

ITALY: Former Prime Minister Sentenced For Journalist's Murder
November 18, MediaGuardian.co.uk

US: Comcast-AT&T Merger Approved, New Cable & Broadband Giant Called "Dangerous" By Consumer Groups
November 14, Philadelphia Inquirer
Also see:
  • Center For Digital Democracy: Merger Will Harm Consumers And Citizens (PRESS RELEASE)
  • Consumers' Union: "Dangerous" Merger Will Control 40% Of U.S. Households (PRESS RELEASE)
  • Lone FCC Democrat Dissents: Merger Is Not In The Public Interest (PDF File)

ISRAEL: Opposing Political Parties Use Exact Same PR Firms
November 11, Jerusalem Post via Globalvision News Network

LIBERIA: Gov't Shuts Down Amateur Radio Stations As "Threats To National Security"
November 14, The News (Monrovia) via allAfrica.com