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Kuwait: Proposed Internet law aims to silence critical bloggers
Posted by World Association of Newspapers on 14 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy, Middle East
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By IFEX, WAN Kuwait’s Public Prosecutors Office (PPO) is set to finalize a bill that will punish “Internet offenders.” |
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New York Times Attempts to Define and Dictate Black Politics
Posted by Black Agenda Report on 13 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, New York Times, Obama, 08 Election
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By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report The nation’s most influential newspaper predicts that Black politics as we know it is headed for extinction. |
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Web Firms Acknowledge Tracking Behavior Without Consent
Posted by Washington Post on 12 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America, Policy
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By Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post In response to a bipartisan House inquiry, Google says it uses technology to more precisely follow Web surfing across affiliated sites. |
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Media Fight Looms on Privacy Laws
Posted by The Australian on 11 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy, Australia
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By Jane Schulze, The Australian Australia’s top news organisations are readying for a showdown if the Australian Law Reform Commission recommends tough new privacy laws today, as expected. |
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NBC Universal surpasses $1 billion in Olympic ads
Posted by AP on 08 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By AP A day before the Olympics kick off in Beijing, NBC Universal announced it has garnered more than $1 billion in advertising revenue for the event for which it spent $894 million to acquire the U.S. broadcast and digital rights. |
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Major U.S. Internet Companies Agree On A Code Of Conduct For Operating In Repressive Countries
Posted by LA Times on 05 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times It’s been a journey longer than the meandering, months-long trip the Olympic torch is taking to Friday’s opening ceremonies in Beijing. |
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Murdoch Says U.S. TV Advertising Good, Eyes Asia
Posted by Reuters on 04 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Asia
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By Rina Chandran, Reuters News Corp (NWSa.N) chief Rupert Murdoch said television advertising in the United States was good, despite a slowing economy, while Asia was a long-term bet driven by the emergence of a wealthy middle class. |
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Journalists Should Speak Up In Media-Consolidation Fight
Posted by Seattle Times on 01 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Ryan Bletten, The Seattle Times If an industry is shedding jobs and ripping the heart out of its core product, logic would dictate that people in that industry try to cure what is wrong. |
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Mediaset Sues Google, YouTube, Seeking EU500 Million
Posted by Bloomberg on 31 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Europe
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By Chiara Remondini, Bloomberg Mediaset SpA, the television company controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sued the YouTube video-sharing Web site and its owner Google Inc., seeking “at least'’ 500 million euros ($779 million). |
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Cablevision Finalizes $650M Deal to Buy Newsday
Posted by Newsday on 30 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday Cablevision Systems Corp. finalized its $650 million purchase of 97 percent of Newsday on Tuesday |
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FCC To Rule Comcast Can’t Block Web Videos
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 29 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy
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By AMY SCHATZ, Wall Street Journal Federal regulators are set to announce this week that Comcast Corp. wrongly slowed some of its customers’ Internet traffic, in a victory for consumer groups and high-tech companies that have fought to keep Web traffic free from interference. |
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Kenyan Government Publishes New Communications Bill
Posted by Media Network Weblog on 28 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Africa
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By Andy Sennitt, Media Network Weblog The Kenyan Government has dropped plans to bar cross-media ownership and to empower the Internal Security Minister to order invasion of broadcasting stations. These clauses that sought to muzzle the media, have been taken away from the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill 2008. |
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Newspaper Profits Plummet, Future Bleak
Posted by CBS News on 25 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America
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By CBS News Drop In Ad Revenue Worst Since Great Depression; May Get Worse |
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Nas & ColorOfChange.org Give 620,000 Petitions to Fox News
Posted by MediaChannel on 25 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News Corp, Fox News, North America, VIDEO, Race in Media
Hip hop artist Nas and members of ColorOfChange.org deliver over 620,000 petitions calling on Fox News to stop its racist coverage of the Obamas. Sign the petition here.
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Krugman reveals the NYT urged him to ‘lay off’ the Bush administration
Posted by Think Progress on 24 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Bias, North America, USGOP, VIDEO, Politics
On Friday at the Netroots Nation conference, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman spoke on a panel about “How the media learned to bend over backwards to please the right.” Krugman discussed the right wing’s success at pressuring the media and how some of that filtered down to him.
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