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Hispanic Congressmen Demand Corporate Action Against CNN Host
Posted by guardian.co.uk on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Free Speech, Politics, Hillary, Media Freedom, Policy, 08 Election, Latin America
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By Elana Schor, guardian.co.uk Latino members of Congress condemned the TV network for failing to recognise the “potentially dangerous” consequences of Dobbs’s “divisive commentary”. |
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Stricter rules loom for media owners
Posted by LA Times on 25 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy, FCC, US Congress
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times The FCC defied some members of Congress in 2007 by easing a ban on ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city. Yesterday, the lawmakers took the first step toward getting even. |
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After The ABC News Debacle: How To Change Media
Posted by Danny Schechter on 18 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Bias, Ownership, Commentary, Politics, Action, Media Freedom, Journalism, Policy, Iraq War, Activism, 08 Election, Democracy, Media
Media Hypocrites Love Personality Politics
Posted by Salon on 17 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Horowitz, Policy
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By Glenn Greenwald, Salon Why is the GOP smear machine so good at re-creating the social dynamics of high school, pitting the Republican jocks against the Democratic nerds? |
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Hillary Drops Health Care Tale — After Press Challenges
Posted by AP on 07 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Politics, Hillary, Policy, 08 Election, Health Care
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By AP An aide said Clinton would stop using the story of a Meigs County woman and her stillborn child. |
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Justice Department Sues Fox
Posted by Variety.com on 07 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy
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By Cynthia Littleton, Variety The Justice Department has taken on the role of the FCC’s enforcer, filing a lawsuit Friday against Fox and Sinclair Broadcast Group to collect $56,000 in fines. |
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The Machinery Of Hope
Posted by Rolling Stone on 07 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, USGOP, USDemocrats, Politics, Obama, Policy, 08 Election
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By Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone Inside the grass-roots field operation of Barack Obama… |
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CAUGHT: Comcast paying to push public out of Internet debate
Posted by MediaChannel on 29 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Policy, Activism
We caught Comcast stacking a FCC hearing with paid (and apparently sleepy) seat-fillers so that the public couldn’t get in. Tell the FCC to Stop Comcast.
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Senate OKs Bill To Extend Eavesdropping
Posted by LA Times on 13 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Free Speech, Politics, Ethics, Policy, Telecommunications, privacy
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By Greg Miller, LA Times The Senate approved espionage legislation that would expand the government’s authority to intercept international phone calls and e-mails and to block lawsuits against U.S. telecommunications companies that aided in past spying efforts. |
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Obama And The Media
Posted by Seattle Times on 08 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Politics, Obama, Policy, 08 Election, Media Analysis
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By Seattle Times “His populist bent on media issues is especially encouraging. He doesn’t merely speak about it; he fights for it.” |
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Merchants Of Trivia
Posted by Rolling Stone on 17 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, USGOP, Politics, Obama, Hillary, Edwards, Journalism, Policy, 08 Election, Media Analysis
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By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Why do the media insist on reducing one of the most exciting presidential primary seasons in American history to a simple horse race? |
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Web Publishers: Only Tentative Ad Spend During Primaries
Posted by Media Week on 14 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Politics, Journalism, New Media, Policy, 08 Election
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By Mike Shields, Media Week As voters ponder a return to the Clinton-era leadership of a decade ago, the 2008 presidential hopefuls are running their media like they’re stuck in the ’90s. |
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Dear Dennis, You’re Hereby Uninvited To The Debate
Posted by LA Times on 14 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, USDemocrats, Politics, Policy, 08 Election, ABC
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By Andrew Malcolm, LA Times Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the perennial Democratic presidential candidate who just as perennially loses, is fast becoming a perennial debate absentee too. |
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The Search Party
Posted by New Yorker on 08 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, USDemocrats, Bush, Politics, Technology, New Media, Policy, Activism, Google, Business, privacy
Politicians To Focus Media Spend On 25 States
Posted by Media Week on 07 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Politics, Policy, 08 Election, advertise, Cable
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By Katy Bachman, Media Week After the last primary-season campaign ad runs in New Hampshire this Tuesday, the presidential candidates will be forced to rethink their media strategies. |
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