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Let Dennis Debate!

Posted by MediaChannel on 07 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: USDemocrats, VIDEO, Politics, Disney, 08 Election, ABC

“The airwaves belong to the people. They don’t belong to ABC.” Dennis Kucinich addressed a lively crowd of supporters at a rally outside the ABC-sponsored debate at Saint Anselm College on Saturday. ABC has been widely criticized for its decision to exclude Kucinich from this final debate before New Hampshire’s primary.

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Strike’s War Of Words Resumes

Posted by Variety.com on 11 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, NBC Universal, Disney, Television, Activism, Cable, Pop Culture, Human Rights

By Dave McNary, Variety.com
The tone of the WGA strike — now in its sixth week — keeps getting nastier, with both sides abandoning any pretense of diplomacy.

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From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images

Posted by Black Agenda Report on 04 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Ownership, News Corp, AOLTimeWarner, Viacom, Commentary, NBC Universal, Disney, GE, FCC, MTV, Race in Media, Radio, Clear Channel, Pop Culture, US Congress, Indecency, Gender

There can be no doubt that much Hip Hop product is pathological. But whose product is it? Industry activist Lisa Fager went to Capitol Hill to school lawmakers on the real purveyors of audio and video mayhem: the music and communications corporations that control the destructive content that saturates the market.

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Download This: YouTube Phenom Has A Big Secret

Posted by Wall Street Journal on 06 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Disney, New Media, YouTube, Pop Culture

By Ethan Smith and Peter Lattman, WSJ
Traditional media conglomerates are going to new lengths to take advantage of the Internet’s ability to generate word-of-mouth buzz.

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Mergers Fail To Lift Media Stocks

Posted by CNN on 02 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership, News Corp, Fox News, AOLTimeWarner, CNN, CBS, North America, US, NBC Universal, Disney, GE, Economics, New Media, Television, Rupert Murdoch, Radio, Google, Wall Street Journal, Business, CNBC, Satellite Radio, Satellite TV

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN
Despite consolidation in the sector, media stocks underperformed the broader market in the first half of 2007.

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Media Conglomerates In The Past, Panel Says

Posted by Hollywood Reporter on 27 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Disney, Economics, New Media, Google, Business

By Georg Szalai, Hollywood Reporter
Is the heyday of media and entertainment conglomerates behind us? A panel of industry analysts discussed this and other questions as part of a PricewaterhouseCoopers event–several of them arguing that conglomeratization has no real benefits, especially in the digital age.

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Much Too Golden Years

Posted by Forbes on 07 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Disney, GE, Economics, AT&T, Business

By Elizabeth MacDonald, Forbes
Fat cat chief executives are almost always used as Exhibit A in the national debate about the rich getting richer.

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ABC Sues Critical Blog Out of Existence

Posted by MediaChannel on 05 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: News, US, Blogs, Free Speech, Politics, Disney

“Fair use” and political enmity come together as Disney censors a “fifth-tier” blogger taking them to task for extremist right-wing talk radio.

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North Korea Quietly Emerges as Major Player in Animation Industry

Posted by MediaChannel on 07 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Disney, NK, KR

The South Korean animation industry is well known for its work on Western television such as “The Simpsons,” “The Pink Panther,” and the light-sabers in “Star Wars.” But Noth Korean animation has been quietly working on films such as “The Lion King” and “Pocahantas.”

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Martin Bashir and James Goldston Overhaul Nightline

Posted by MediaChannel on 04 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: News, US, UK, Disney

Dismissed as tabloid Brits when they joined an ailing US news show, the duo behind the notorious Michael Jackson film talk about how they’re “improving” ABC’s Nightline

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