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Arab TV Broadcasters Face Curbs
Posted by BBC News on 13 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Television, Religious Right, Satellite TV, Human Rights
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By BBC News Arab countries have agreed to allow punishment of satellite channels deemed to have offended Arab leaders, or national or religious symbols. |
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Iraq TV, Then And Now
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 29 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, Middle East, Television, Cable, Pop Culture, Satellite TV
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By Gina Chon and Sarmad Al., Wall Street Journal ‘Friends’, ‘Dr. Phil’ and satellite dishes take place of action flicks and Saddam. |
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News Without The Nonsense
Posted by Boston Globe on 20 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Television, Cable, Satellite TV
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By Andrew Stroehlein, Boston Globe It’s probably the world’s best-funded television news operation, and it has a team of experienced professional reporters. Yet after a full year on air, Al Jazeera English remains unavailable to most Americans. |
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Beating Pakistan’s TV news Blackout
Posted by Christine on 09 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Cable, Satellite TV, Human Rights
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By Syed Shoaib Hasan, BBC News “They have been selling like hot cakes,” says a satellite dish dealer in Islamabad. |
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A Spectrum Of Possibilities
Posted by Boston Globe on 27 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, New Media, FCC, Television, Telecommunications, Radio, Google, Satellite Radio, Satellite TV
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Boston Globe The U.S., once the leader in Internet usage, is falling behind other nations in the switch to ultra-fast broadband connections. |
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Why ‘Fairness’ Fails
Posted by The Phoenix on 26 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, Free Speech, Politics, Media Freedom, New Media, FCC, Television, Radio, YouTube, Cable, Licensing, Satellite Radio, Satellite TV, Right v. Left
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The Phoenix The excesses of right-wing talk radio have sparked a move to re-impose an equal-time doctrine. It’s a bad idea. |
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Rather Says Odds Getting Longer For Couric
Posted by TV Week on 24 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, CBS, Technology, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Television, Advertising, Pop Culture, Satellite TV, Alternative Press
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By Greg Baumann, TV Week Dan Rather, who last month accused broadcast networks of dumbing down and tarting up their newscasts, said he can foresee a time when media company executives retreat from evening news production. |
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Some In Congress Pushing For Reinstatement Of Fairness Doctrine
Posted by LA Times on 23 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, Free Speech, Politics, Media Freedom, FCC, Television, Radio, Satellite Radio, Satellite TV
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times After conservative talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage helped torpedo a major immigration bill, some in Congress have suggested reinstating the Fairness Doctrine to balance out those powerful syndicated voices. |
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New Technology Helping Rather Deliver Old-Fashioned TV Journalism
Posted by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on 23 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Ownership, Free Speech, Technology, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Television, Activism, Telecommunications, Radio, Satellite Radio, Satellite TV, Mexico, Documentary
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By Tim Cuprisin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “We’re trying to do something new, but insofar as we have a model, ‘See It Now,’ which was the breakthrough Ed Murrow series in ’50s, is the model in my own head,” says Dan Rather, talking about his new work with HDNet. |
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House Protects Public Broadcasting
Posted by AP on 19 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Politics, PBS, Television, Radio, US Congress, Satellite Radio, Satellite TV
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AP The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush’s plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
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Beyond The Beltway: Net Neutrality Support Is Stronger Than Ever
Posted by Huffington Post on 18 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, New Media, FCC, Cable, Business, Satellite TV
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By Timothy Karr, Huffington Post The results are in at the Federal Communications Commission–well over 95% of comments called for rules that prohibit phone and cable companies from seeing through their plans to become the new gatekeepers to the Internet |
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Iran’s Press TV To Give Alternative View
Posted by LA Times on 13 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, CNN, UK, Journalism, Middle East, Television, BBC, Satellite TV, MSNBC, Alternative Press, Al-Jazeera
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By Ramin Mostaghim and Borzou Daragahi, LA Times The 24-hour satellite news channel will compete with Western outlets to counter what Tehran sees as propaganda. |
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Live Earth Internet Streaming Sets Record
Posted by Reuters on 09 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Environment, Technology, New Media, Activism, Telecommunications, Al Gore, Pop Culture, Satellite TV
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Reuters The Live Earth global pop concerts on Saturday broke a record for an online entertainment show by generating more than 9 million Internet streams, Microsoft Corp. Web portal MSN said. |
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TV News Attempts An Online Comeback
Posted by Baltimore Sun on 09 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership, AOLTimeWarner, CNN, Free Speech, NBC Universal, IR, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Iraq War, Advertising, Telecommunications, Cable, ABC News, Satellite TV, MSNBC
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By David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun For more than two decades, discussions of TV news have been dominated by a discourse of decline. But for all the talk of dinosaurs and audience erosion, major TV news programs have found new life on computer screens, iPods and cell phones during the past year. |
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Iran Launches English-Language Satellite TV Channel
Posted by Reuters on 03 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Asia, Free Speech, IR, Media Freedom, Journalism, Television, Democracy, Satellite TV, Al-Jazeera
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Reuters Iran launched an English-language satellite television channel on Monday saying it was seeking to redress the balance of world news coverage which was now in the grip of the West. |
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