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البابا شنودة : بنديكت خسر كل المسلمين



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البابا شنودة : بنديكت خسر كل المسلمين
محيط - منذ 5 ساعة/ساعات
القاهرة :اكد البابا شنودة الثالث بابا الإسكندرية وبطريرك الكرازة المرقسية أن بابا الفاتيكان بنديكت السادس عشر جرح بتصريحاته المتكررة المسيحيين وخسر كل المسلمين. وقال البابا شنودة في حوار مع صحيفة "الاهرام" المصرية نشرته امس السبت "إن بنديكت خسر كثيرا من الطوائف المسيحية ...
شنودة ينتقد بابا روما: يجرح المسيحيين بعدما خسر المسلمين ... الكنيستان المصرية ... دار الحياة
البابا شنودة الثالث ينتقد البابا بنديكت رويترز العربية
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News of the movement for March 28, 2007

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News of the movement for March 28, 2007
Free Press is hiring. We are seeking dynamic, highly organized, self-directed people who are fun to be around for several positions. If you want to work hard for a great cause and really make a difference, check out the job descriptions.

Media Reform Daily
Save the Internet
Musicians Campaign for Free Internet
Sensing a revolution in the way Internet traffic is managed, rock 'n' roll musicians find themselves in the unusual position of defending the status quo.
Dibya Sarkar, Associated Press
Independent Musicians Launch 'Rock The Net'
The Internet has helped independent musicians and labels boost sales by 30 percent in the last year. They understand the need to fight for Net Neutrality and mobilize their fans.
Harold Feld, Wet Machine
Beware of Telemarketing that Attacks Net Neutrality
An automated telemarketing message is asking citizens to call their state representative and warn them against supporting Net Neutrality in Oregon.
Portland Indy Media Center
Make Net Neutrality the Law in 2007
State Policy Tracker
AT&T Limits Itself and Maligns Cities
The president of the Tennessee Municipal League told a state House committee that, when it comes to video franchising, the only competitive barriers AT&T faces are those that it has imposed on itself.
Milt Capps, Nashville Post
Florida Takes Another Crack at Statewide Video Franchising
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said that intense lobbying efforts of the state's telephone companies have made him skeptical that stripping the video franchising authority of localities is in the best interest of consumers.
Michael Martinez, National Journal
State Video Franchise Bill Hearing in New York
The New York state franchising bill has a lot of opposition from municipalities, cable companies -- and Verizon.
Save Access
Check for Media Legislation in Your State
Policy:at the FCC
The FCC and Armstrong Williams' Continuing Legacy
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has resurrected the pundit payola scandal involving Armstrong Williams from a buried investigation and asked FCC Chair Kevin Martin for a status report.
Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy
FCC Split over TV Violence Report
An upcoming FCC report recommending steps that Congress can take to regulate television violence has sharply divided the agency's five members.
David Hatch, National Journal
FCC White Space Test Results by July
More details are now available on the FCC's testing of a device that could use former TV airwaves to offer consumers broadband access.
Broadband Reports
After Penalty, FCC Fine with Univision Sale
Federal regulators approved the $12.3 billion sale of Univision to a group of private investors after the Spanish-language network agreed to a $24 million payment to settle allegations that it violated children's TV regulations.
Brooks Boliek, Hollywood Reporter
Policy: In Congress
Copyright and Innovation Can Coexist
A bill recently introduced in Congress addresses extremely harsh copyright laws and adds crucial protections for the rights of innovators and fans.
Derek Slater, TomPaine.com
It's Digital Decision Time Say Public Interest Advocates
Three media advocate groups have asked House Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) to push the FCC to finish its inquiry into DTV public interest obligations.
Broadcasting & Cable
Millions May Miss Digital TV Deadline
One in five U.S. households depends on rabbit ears or a rooftop antenna to watch TV. Without converter boxes, most of their sets will go blank the day in 2009 when analog signals will be turned off.
Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
MLB: We'll Meet Face-to-Face with Cable
Under pressure from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Major League Baseball President Bob DuPuy agreed to meet with In Demand Networks to discuss a possible deal that could provide the cable-backed program supplier with the league's Extra Innings package.
Steve Donohue, Multichannel News
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News of the movement for March 23, 2007

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News of the movement for March 23, 2007

Media Reform Daily



Save the Internet
Josh Silver and Mike McCurry Face Off on Net Neutrality
Free Press Executive Director Josh Silver faces off with telco industry shill Mike McCurry in a debate about the importance of Net Neutrality for innovation, investment, competition and consumer access.
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FCC Launches Inquiry into Net Neutrality
The FCC launched an inquiry into practices by broadband providers, focusing on whether there is a need for the agency to adopt regulations to ensure Net Neutrality.
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FCC to Examine Future of Internet Access
The FCC took a small step to address a growing debate on whether high-speed Internet providers like AT&T and Comcast should be barred from charging extra fees to guarantee access to the Internet.
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Copps and Adelstein Unhappy with Broadband Reclassification and Net Neutrality NOI
We've never had a national debate about whether the FCC should be in the business of making rules for the Internet. It's just happening, through deference, design, and Congressional inactivity.
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Net Neutrality: Inquiring Minds Want to Know
The Republican FCC Commissioners' vision for the future of the Internet is not one shared by most Americans. It's to these everyday Internet users, business entrepreneurs and technological innovators whom the FCC should be listening.
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Simply conducting an Inquiry on the state of the Internet while the big players are on their best behavior will prove nothing. A case-by-case complaint process will be inefficient at best.

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Maine Net Neutrality Bill Introduced
A bill has been introduced in the Maine Legislature to protect Net Neutrality and is now in Committee.
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FCC Classifies Wireless Broadband as an Information Service
The FCC declared that wireless broadband Internet access service is an information service under the Communications Act.
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MAP Reacts to FCC Broadband Ruling
"If the Commission genuinely wants to 'standardize treatment of broadband services across platforms,' it must require wireless services to allow subscribers to attach any device to its network," says Harold Feld of Media Access Project.
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FCC Gives OK to Digital Audio Broadcasting
The FCC gave FM broadcasters the ability to launch digital radio multicast services without seeking prior approval from the commission.
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MAP Reacts to Digital Audio Broadcasting Order
The FCC's digital audio broadcasting order is not a complete solution to the lack of diverse voices and perspectives. The Commission should seize this opportunity to increase the participation of minorities and females in radio broadcasting.



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Journalism and Beyond
Lone Wolf
Josh Wolf is caught in an age when the distinction between objectivity and advocacy is increasingly blurred, citizens are generating content for mainstream media, and the definition of a journalist has become murkier.
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Lapdog, Meet Watchdog
During the run-up to the Iraq occupation, the press had failed to uncover the untruths behind the administration spin. Is the press being more diligent these days? There's fodder for both optimists and pessimists.
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U.S. Attorneys and Politics Dominate as Talkhosts Pick and Choose
Even though the political confrontation over the fired U.S. attorneys and the 2008 presidential campaign were the two biggest talk show subjects last week, whether or not you heard about them at all depended on who was doing the talking.
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täglicher Newsletter
16 Mar 2007



Frau suchte Mordanleitung bei Google    zum Beitrag
USA - Eine Frau aus New Jersey hatte laut einem Bericht des "DailyRecord" geplant, ihren Mann zu töten. Um für die Tat allerdings auch richtig gerüstet zu sein, befragte sie unter anderem die Suchmaschine Google, welches der beste Weg sei, das Opfer ins Jenseits zu befördern.

Tage bevor Melanie McGuire ihre Mann umgebracht habe, hatte sie genau um 17:45 und 24 Sekunden am 18. April ...




Coca-Cola soll Namen ändern    zum Beitrag
Bolivien - Laut US-Medien wurde der Konzern "The Coca-Cola Company" von bolivianischen Koka-Bauern dazu aufgefordert, das Wort "Coca" aus seinem Namenszug und der Bezeichnung für das Getränk "Coca-Cola" zu entfernen.

Wie eine Kommission der bolivianischen Koka-Bauern erklärte, gehöre die Kokapflanze zum kulturellen Erbe ihres Landes, weshalb Unternehmen, welche die Pflanze nicht nu ...




Gewaltige Wassereis-Vorkommen auf Mars    zum Beitrag
Paris/ Frankreich - Der Südpol des Mars ist von einem Meer aus gefrorenem Wasser bedeckt. Würde dieses abschmelzen, so könnten die Wassermassen den ganzen Planeten mit einem elf Meter hohen globalen Ozean füllen.

Das internationale Wissenschaftsteam um Jeffrey Plaut vom California Institute of Technology in Pasadena hat mit Hilfe der Radardaten der MARSIS(Mars Advanced Radar for Su ...




Irrtum über angebliches Jesus-Grab    zum Beitrag >>>
Jerusalem/ Israel - Mit der Behauptung, man habe in Israel das Grab Jesus' und Maria Magdalenas entdeckt, erregte das Filmteam des Discovery Channel um Oscar-Regisseur James Cameron weltweites Aufsehen. Jetzt zeigt sich, dass die Inschriften wahrscheinlich falsch interpretiert wurden.

Wie Associated Press berichtet, entdeckte der Schriftgelehrte Stephen Pfann von der "University of ...




Russland will 2017 bemannt zum Mars    zum Beitrag >>>
Moskau/ Russland - In den internationalen Wettlauf zum Mars greift nun auch Russland offiziell ein und will schon 2017/2018 Kosmonauten zum Roten Planeten schicken.

Grund für die Richtungsänderung in der bisherigen Mars-Strategie, die man bisher nur durch internationale Zusammenarbeit als sinnvoll erachtete, liegt, so berichtet "Spiegel-Online", in dem angekündigten Alleingang der A ...




Ungeheuer im Vansee gesichtet    zum Beitrag >>>
Tatvan/Türkei - Laut einem Bericht der Zeitung "Die Welt" unter Berufung auf die Nachrichtenagentur Anadolu sollen kürzlich ein Kapitän und seine Schiffsbesatzung das berüchtigte Vansee-Monster gesichtet haben. Nun wurde angekündigt Nachforschungen anzustellen.

Wie die Mannschaft und ihr Kapitän beschrieben, hätten sie das Ungeheuer im türkischen See zunächst für ein Schnellboot geh ...




Jesus ist kein Alien    zum Beitrag >>>
Venezuela - Viele Theorien drehen sich darum, wer Jesus Christus "wirklich" war. Wie ein Bischof aus Venezuela nun feststellte, sei Jesus allerdings weder ein Revolutionär noch ein Sozialist, geschweige denn ein Außerirdischer gewesen.

Insbesondere nach dem kürzlichen Trubel um die angebliche Entdeckung von Jesus' Grab, wo er selbst, sein Sohn und seine Gemahlin ihre letzte Ruhe ge ...




Tag der Astrologie 2007    zum Beitrag >>>
Heidelberg/ Deutschland - Am 21. März veranstaltet der „Deutsche Astrologenverband (DAV)“ in 33 Städten und Regionen Deutschlands erstmals den „Tag der Astrologie“.

Das Datum ist natürlich astrologisch begründet, denn der 21. März ist der Tag, an dem die Sonne auf ihrer scheinbaren Bahn um die Erde ins Tierkreiszeichen Widder tritt und nach dem astrologischen „Kalender“ ein neuer Ja ...




Geister an Schule in Mombasa?    zum Beitrag >>>
Mombasa/Kenia - An einer Gesamtschule in Mombasa soll eine schreckliche Panik ausgebrochen sein, bei der mehrere Schüler der Lehreinrichtungen behaupteten, von bösen Geistern attackiert worden zu sein. Derweil wurde der Unterricht vorübergehend ausgesetzt.

Begonnen habe das seltsame Geschehen mit einer Schülerin, welche unerlaubt einen Ring trug. Als sie diesen abstreifte und überga ...







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Media Reform Daily
News of the movement for March 16, 2007
Free Press is hiring. We are seeking dynamic, highly organized, self-directed people who are fun to be around for several positions. If you want to work hard for a great cause and really make a difference, check out the job descriptions.

Policy:
at the FCC
FCC to Hold Open Commission Meeting March 22
The FCC will hold an Open Meeting on several subjects on Thursday, March 22, at 9:30 a.m. in Washington, D.C. Subjects include broadband industry practices, classifying wireless broadband as information services, and digital audio regulations.
Federal Communicatons Commission
Martin Seeking to Unclog FCC
FCC chairman Kevin Martin is attempting to break a regulatory logjam at the commission by forcing votes on issues the democratic commissioners believe need further consumer protections.
Brooks Boliek, Hollywood Reporter
NAACP Opposes a La Carte
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has written FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and the other commissioners registering their opposition to a la carte cable pricing.
John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Cable Television and Hamburger Buns, a la Carte
When it comes to cable TV, consumers are typically forced to buy a "basic tier" of channels in order to buy certain other "premium" channels they might want, such as HBO or ESPN. Consumers would be better off with an a la carte system.
HearUsNow.org
Public Interest Obligations of DTV Broadcasters Timeline
The nation's 1,600 television stations are slowly converting from traditional analog technology to a digital television format. The Benton Foundation has published a timeline of DTV policy events that comprise "more than 4,000 days of inaction."
Benton Foundation
Journalism and Beyond
Josh Wolf Captured on Video
New video evidence from a 2005 protest rally shows Josh Wolf shooting video at the event and responding to police orders to move back. The journalist has been imprisoned for more than 200 days for refusing to turn over raw footage to federal authorities.
Howard Vicini, Indy Bay
Advocate's Union Files Grievance with Tribune Co.
The union representing 40 editorial employees at The Advocate and Greenwich Time is filing a grievance against the Tribune Co., which is selling the two papers to Gannett.
A.J. O'Connell and Amanda Pinto, Stamford Times
Tribune Rethinks Part of 'Self-Help' Plan
The rethinking going on at Tribune Co. shows once again how an auction of the company has been stymied by an unexpectedly severe deterioration in the newspaper business.
Sarah Ellison, Wall Street Journal
Coming Newspaper Wars: The Freebies
It's already started in Europe. It's about to arrive in the United States. It's what's fast becoming a global war between traditional paid newspapers and the hordes of free dailies sprouting up in cities worldwide. And Boston is next.
Lisa Snedeker, Media Life
Authenticity Issues Cloud Prospects for Online Politics
The explosion of Internet use coupled with new online tools has been a boon to politics. But for Google, it has created a paradox: As a global platform for free expression, how do you handle a flood of vicious and false content?
Frank Davies, San Jose Mercury News
A 'Powerful Testament' to Local TV News
A powerful tornado tore through the small town of Enterprise, Ala. Many people lost their lives. But one grandmother, who was watching a local meterologist with her grandchildren, heeded his warning and survived the storm.
TV Newsday
Down and Out in the 'Burbs
There are media geeks who have been waiting 10 years for the Web to take over community news. But building a successful site from scratch is proving to be an elusive goal.
Jon Fine, Business Week
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News of the movement for February 20, 2007

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Media Reform Daily
News of the movement for February 20, 2007

The FCC is holding its third official Public Hearing on Media Ownership in Harrisburg, Pa., on Feb. 23, beginning at 9 a.m. For more info on the location, transportation and tips for testifying, click here
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Save the Internet
Neutrality on the Net Gets High '08 Profile
Net Neutrality could have a special energy in the political season, since every Republican and Democrat who uses the Internet is threatened by the prospect of corporate-controlled access to Web sites.
Charles Babington, Washington Post
Opposing Net Neutrality a Political Third Rail
Opposing Net Neutrality has become a political third rail for candidates who seek elected office, according to a story in the Washington Post.
Timothy Karr, SavetheInternet.com
Tim Wu Identifies the Critical Public Policy Issue of Our Time
In his new paper, Tim Wu has put his finger on the critical issue of public policy of our time. Do we regulate to increase public welfare, or do we only regulate to cure "market failure"?
Harold Feld, Wet Machine
Asm. Mark Leno to Introduce Net Neutrality Legislation
Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) will introduce Net Neutrality legislation that will preserve the free and open Internet as we know it -- a driving force of economic innovation, a valuable research tool and a forum for civic involvement.
Shannan Velayas, IndyBay.org
Net Neutrality Bill Offered in Maryland
Not content to wait for Congress to act, a group of Maryland state legislators is backing a smaller-scale attempt at putting a Net Neutrality mandate in place.
Anne Broache, CNet
Unrepresented at FTC Broadband Workshop
The main mission of the Federal Trade Commission is protecting "consumers" against anti-competitive practices. But at its workshop on Broadband Connectivity this week, the FTC proved in real time that it was incapable of its mission.
David Isenberg, Isen Blog
The Latest 'Hyperbolic' Attack on Net Neutrality
Broadband Internet is a fundamental public service; an essential information utility in this era. Academics and universities should examine this issue in a way which does true service to the debate.
Jeffrey Chester, Digital Destiny
Make Net Neutrality the Law in 2007
Stop Big Media
FCC Announces Details for Public Hearing
The FCC announced the time and location of its third hearing on Media Ownership in Harrisburg, Pa. It will start at 9 a.m. at the Whitaker Center for Science and Arts.
Federal Communications Commission
Hearing Seeks Views on FCC Rules
Advocates from a wide spectrum of causes are expected to turn out in force Friday to tell the FCC commissioners that the current media ownership rules are draining the broadcasting industry of diversity and competition.
Barry Fox, Patriot-News
Pennsylvania Representatives Demand Greater Public Input on Media Ownership Rules
Four Pennsylvania representatives sent a letter to the FCC expressing concern that the public has not been given adequate notice of its Feb. 23 hearing.
Reps. Mike Doyle, Tim Holden, Robert Brady and Allyson Schwartz
Private Equity Is a Problem for Public Media
A wave of media privatization is sweeping the world without much notice. But the effects are just as harmful to journalism as corporate ownership: Cost-cutting in newsrooms, a short-term orientation that undermines infrastructure upgrades -- and even less transparency.
Eli Noam, Financial Times
Demise of the Foreign Correspondent
Instead of stepping up coverage of international affairs, American newspapers and television networks are steadily cutting back.
Pamela Constable, Washington Post
Putting a Noose Around the News
If it seems to you you're getting the same news no matter which channel you watch, you're right, and you can thank newspaper consolidation for that.
Jayne Lyn Stahl, Huffington Post
Tribune Moves Closer to a Corporate Rewrite
As the auction for Tribune Co. limps to a close, it is becoming clear that newspaper publishers can't sell their way out of their current woes.
Sarah Ellison, Wall Street Journal
Paper-TV Ties Stall Sale of Tribune
Tribune Co. took a calculated risk when it purchased Times Mirror Co. in 2000, acquiring newspapers in markets where it already owned TV stations despite federal rules barring such combinations.
Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
Tell the FCC to Stop Big Media
Defending Local Access
FCC Undermines Community Broadband
The FCC's new Video Franchising Rules weaken community oversight of video and broadband providers by limiting the authority of local governments to determine how telecom giants enter the local market and diminishing local negotiating power.
Jennifer Harris and Jeffrey Chester, Center for Digital Democracy
Cable War Fails to Offer Rate Relief in Montgomery County, Md.
Montgomery County, Md. leaders had hoped that competition from Verizon would help lower cable prices. But Comcast said cable bills would climb in line with increases for subscribers throughout Maryland, the District and Northern Virginia.
Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post
Missouri's Cable Franchising Bill Could Be Unconstitutional
Consumer advocates and Missouri municipalities say the opt-out provision of Missouri's video franchising bill could violate the state constitution and put cable service in low-income areas at risk.
Derek Kravitz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Cable Picture Could Get Even Worse in Massachusetts
By allowing cable companies to negotiate directly with the state, the towns and cities of Massachusetts -- and cable subscribers -- would have even less impact on the cable giants than they do today if a proposed state franchise bill is passed.
Berkshire Eagle
The Flip Side of Network TV
The Georgia General Assembly is considering big changes in state franchising rules that threaten public access stations across the state.
Scott Leith, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Is Your State Fighting Corporate Control?
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PBS's NOW reports in For Your Eyes Only? on new evidence suggesting the existence of a secret government program that intercepts millions of private e-mails each day in the name of terrorist surveillance.
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News of the movement for February 9, 2007

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News of the movement for February 9, 2007
Save the Internet
Wireless Net Neutrality
Over the next decade, regulators will spend increasing time on the conflicts between the private interests of the wireless industry and the public's interest in the best uses of its spectrum.
Tim Wu, TimWu.org
A Non-Remedy for Net Neutrality Violations
Some want the Federal Trade Commission to enforce Net Neutrality. But can you name one FTC decision in the last 25 years that has been more than a slap on the wrists?
David Isenberg, Isen Blog
Shockingly, Infrastructure Investment Is Booming
Last week a think tank tried to blame Net Neutrality advocates for potential bandwidth shortages. But the concept of Net Neutrality laws resulting in capacity Armageddon simply isn't factual.
Broadband Reports
Could Canada Kill Net Neutrality?
Advisers to the Canadian minister of industry seem to favor the telecoms arguments in favor of a two-tier Internet system over the public interest, according to reports.
K.C. Jones, Information Week
Make Net Neutrality the Law in 2007
Stop Big Media
FCC Announces Next Public Hearing on Media in Harrisburg, Pa.
The FCC today announced that the third public hearing on media ownership issues will be held in Harrisburg, Pa. on Fri., Feb. 23.
Federal Communications Commission
FCC Answers House Commerce Committee Oversight Questions
FCC Chairman Martin and the FCC Commissioners have responded to a letter regarding the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Hearing on oversight of the FCC scheduled for Feb. 15, 2007.
Benton Foundation
Cronkite: Quest for Media Profits Hurts
Pressures by media companies to generate ever-greater profits are threatening the very freedom the nation was built upon, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite warned in a speech at Columbia University.
Associated Press
Timing May Hurt Auction of Tribune
Timing seems to be a factor working against Tribune Co. as the media company that owns the Los Angeles Times attempts to auction itself off.
Thomas S. Mulligan, Los Angeles Times
CBS Sells Seven Local Stations for $185 Million
CBS announced it would sell seven of the local TV stations it owns in four mid-size and small markets to Cerberus Capital Management for $185 million.
Michele Greppi, TV Week
Fringe Stations Fall on Hard Times
No news is bad news for viewers of KFTY-TV, the Clear Channel-owned independent station on the north side of the San Francisco market that will no longer provide local news.
Michele Greppi, TV Week
Speak Up for Localism in Your Newspaper
Journalism and Beyond
Wake-Up Call to A.M. News: Moms Tuning Out
Morning broadcast shows, once a staple for women, are seeing audiences shrink as news sources multiply and mommy blogs discuss more authentic experiences.
Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times
How TV Stations Can Win Big in 2008 Elections
Broadcasters can serve the public and make a place for every last political ad dollar by creating lively Web sites offering intense coverage of races with blogs, user video -- and provocative commentary by recently laid-off political columnists.
Mark Effron, TV Newsday
Chavez as Castro? It's Not that Simple in Venezuela
Alarms are sounding over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's decision not to renew a TV station license, but the situation is more complex. RCTV promoted and participated in a military coup against Chavez and blacked out any pro-Chavez coverage.
Bart Jones, Houston Chronicle
Independent Journalism Under Siege in Middle East
Press freedom is quickly losing ground in the Middle East as authoritarian governments retreat from liberalization undertaken early in the Bush administration's push for democracy.
Miret el Naggar, McClatchy Newspapers
media minutes
This week: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin gets grilled by members of the Senate Commerce Committee. And a new book chronicles how consolidation has decimated the American media environment. Listen here.
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Abolish the Federal Reserve
from a House speech by Dr. Ron Paul; Congressman,Texas
U.S. House of Representatives
Complete official version available on www.house.gov (click here)

Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, middle and working-class Americans have been victimized by a boom-and-bust monetary policy. In addition, most Americans have suffered a steadily eroding purchasing power because of the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies. This represents a real, if hidden, tax imposed on the American people.

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the burst of the dotcom bubble last year, every economic downturn suffered by the country over the last 80 years can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial "boom" followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

With a stable currency, American exporters will no longer be held hostage to an erratic monetary policy. Stabilizing the currency will also give Americans new incentives to save as they will no longer have to fear inflation eroding their savings. Those members concerned about increasing America's exports or the low rate of savings should be enthusiastic supporters of this legislation.

Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. Federal Reserve policies also benefit big spending politicians who use the inflated currency created by the Fed to hide the true costs of the welfare-warfare state. It is time for Congress to put the interests of the American people ahead of the special interests and their own appetite for big government.

Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy.

In fact, Congress' constitutional mandate regarding monetary policy should only permit currency backed by stable commodities such as silver and gold to be used as legal tender. Therefore, abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to a constitutional system will enable America to return to the type of monetary system envisioned by our nation's founders: one where the value of money is consistent because it is tied to a commodity such as gold. Such a monetary system is the basis of a true free-market economy.

In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand up for working Americans by putting an end to the manipulation of the money supply which erodes Americans' standard of living, enlarges big government, and enriches well-connected elites, by cosponsoring my legislation to abolish the Federal Reserve.


Fake Terror: The Road to Dictatorship
by Mike Rivero, WhatReallyHappened.com

Crassus seized upon the slave revolt led by Sparticus in order to strike terror into the hearts of Rome, whose garrison Sparticus had already defeated in battle.

But Sparticus had no intention of marching on Rome itself, a move he
knew to be suicidal. Sparticus and his band wanted nothing to do with the Roman empire and had planned from the start merely to loot enough money from their former owners in the Italian countryside to hire a mercenary fleet in which to sail to freedom.

Sailing away was the last thing Crassus wanted Sparticus to do. He needed a convenient enemy with which to terrorize Rome itself for his personal political gain. So Crassus bribed the mercenary fleet to sail without Sparticus, then positioned two Roman legions in such a way that Sparticus had no choice but to march on Rome.

Terrified of the impending arrival of the much-feared army of gladiators, Rome declared Crassus Praetor. Crassus then crushed Sparticus' army and even though Pompeii took the credit, Crassus was elected Consul of Rome the following year.

With this maneuver, the Romans surrendered their Republican form of
government. Soon would follow the first Triumvirate, consisting of Crassus, Pompeii, and Julius Caesar, followed by the reign of the god-like Emperors of Rome.

The Romans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting
the rule of Emperors.

Julius Caesar's political opponent, Cicero, for all his literary
accomplishments, played the same games in his campaign against Julius
Caesar, claiming that Rome was falling victim to an internal "vast right wing" conspiracy in which any expressed desire for legislative limits on government was treated as suspicious behavior. Cicero, in order to demonstrate to the Romans just how unsafe Rome has become hired thugs to cause as much disturbance as possible, and campaigned on a promise to end the internal strife if elected and granted extraordinary powers.

What Cicero only dreamed of, Adolph Hitler succeeded in doing. Elected
Chancellor of Germany, Hitler, like Crassus, had no intention of living with the strict limits to his power imposed by German law.

Unlike Cicero, Hitler's thugs were easy to recognize; they all wore the same brown shirts. But their actions were no different than those of their Roman predecessors. They staged beatings, set fires, caused as much trouble as they could, while Hitler made speeches promising that he could end the crime wave of subversives and terrorism if he was granted extraordinary powers.

The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the rule of Der Fuhrer.

The state-sponsored schools will never tell you this, but governments
routinely rely on hoaxes to sell their agendas to an otherwise reluctant public.

The Romans accepted the Emperors and the Germans accepted Hitler not
because they wanted to, but because the carefully crafted illusions of
threat appeared to leave no other choice.

Our government too uses hoaxes to create the illusion that We The People have no choice but the direction the government wishes us to go in.

In 1898, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal were arguing for American intervention in Cuba. Hearst is reported to have dispatched a photographer to Cuba to photograph the coming war with Spain. When the photographer asked just what war that might be, Hearst is reported to have replied, "You take the photographs, and I will provide the war". Hearst was true to his word, as his newspaper published stories of great atrocities being committed against the Cuban people, most of which turned out to be complete fabrications.

On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, lying in Havana harbor in a show of US resolve to protect her interests, exploded violently. Captain Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, urged that no assumptions of enemy attack be made until there was a full investigation of the cause of the explosion.

For this, Captain Sigsbee was excoriated in the press for "refusing to see the obvious". The Atlantic Monthly declared flat out that to suppose the explosion to be anything other than a deliberate act by Spain was "completely at defiance of the laws of probability".

Under the slogan "Remember the Maine", Americans went to war with Spain, eventually winning the Phillipines (and annexing Hawaii along the way).

In 1975, an investigation led by Admiral Hyman Rickover examined the data recovered from a 1911 examination of the wreck and concluded that there had been no evidence of an external explosion. The most likely cause of the sinking was a coal dust explosion in a coal bunker imprudently located next to the ship's magazines. Captain Sigsbee's caution had been well founded.



President Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed a war. He needed the fever of a major war to mask the symptoms of a still deathly ill economy struggling back from the Great Depression (and mutating towards Socialism at the same time).

Roosevelt wanted a war with Germany to stop Hitler, but despite
several provocations in the Atlantic, the American people, still struggling with that troublesome economy, were opposed to any wars. Roosevelt violated neutrality with lend lease, and even ordered the sinking of several German ships in the Atlantic, but Hitler refused to be provoked.

Roosevelt needed an enemy, and if America would not willingly attack that enemy, then one would have to be maneuvered into attacking America, much as Marcus Licinius Crassus has maneuvered Sparticus into attacking Rome.

The way open to war was created when Japan signed the tripartite
agreement with Italy and Germany, with all parties pledging mutual defense to each other. Whereas Hitler would never declare war on the United States no matter the provocation, the means to force Japan to do so were readily at hand.

The first step was to place oil and steel embargoes on Japan, using Japan's wars on the Asian mainland as a reason. This forced Japan to consider seizing the oil and mineral rich regions in Indonesia. With the European powers militarily exhausted by the war in Europe, the United States was the only power in the Pacific able to stop Japan from invading the Dutch East Indies, and by moving the Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Roosevelt made a pre-emptive strike on that fleet the mandatory first step in any Japanese plan to extend it's empire into the "southern resource area".

Roosevelt boxed in Japan just as completely as Crassus had boxed in
Sparticus. Japan needed oil. They had to invade Indonesia to get it, and to do that they first had to remove the threat of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. There never really was any other course open to them.

To enrage the American people as much as possible, Roosevelt needed the first overt attack by Japan to be as bloody as possible, appearing as a sneak attack much as the Japanese had done to the Russians. From that moment up until the attack on Pearl Harbor itself, Roosevelt and his associates made sure that the commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, were kept in the dark as much as possible about the location of the Japanese fleet and it's intentions, then later scapegoated for the attack. (Congress recently exonerated both Short and Kimmel, posthumously restoring them to their former ranks).

But as the Army board had concluded at the time, and subsequent de-
classified documents confirmed, Washington DC knew the attack was
coming, knew exactly where the Japanese fleet was, and knew where it was headed.

On November 29th, Secretary of State Hull showed United Press reporter
Joe Leib a message with the time and place of the attack, and the New York Times in it's special 12/8/41 Pearl Harbor edition, on page 13, reported that the time and place of the attack had been known in advance!

The much repeated claim that the Japanese fleet maintained radio silence on it's way to Hawaii was a lie. Among other intercepts still held in the Archives of the NSA is the UNCODED message sent by the Japanese tanker Shirya stating, "proceeding to a position 30.00 N, 154.20 E. Expect to arrive at that point on 3 December." (near HI)

President Lyndon Johnson wanted a war in Vietnam. He wanted it to help his friends who owned defense companies to do a little business. He needed it to get the Pentagon and CIA to quit trying to invade Cuba. And most of all, he needed a provocation to convince the American people that there was really "no other choice".

On August 5, 1964, newspapers across America reported "renewed attacks" against American destroyers operating in Vietnamese waters, specifically the Gulf of Tonkin. The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" on the USS Maddox while it was on "routine patrol".

The truth is that USS Maddox was involved in aggressive intelligence
gathering in coordination with actual attacks by South Vietnam and the
Laotian Air Force against targets in North Vietnam.

The truth is also that there was no attack by torpedo boats against the USS Maddox. Captain John J. Herrick, the task force commander in the Gulf, cabled Washington DC that the report was the result of an "over-eager" sonarman who had picked up the sounds of his own ship's screws and panicked. But even with this knowledge that the report was false, Lyndon Johnson went on national TV that night to announce the commencement of air strikes against North Vietnam, "retaliation" for an attack that had never occurred.



President George Bush wanted a war in Iraq. Like Crassus, George Bush is motivated by money. Specifically oil money. But with the OPEC alliance failing to keep limits on oil production in the Mideast, the market was being glutted with oil pumped from underneath Iraq, which sat over roughly 1/3 of the oil reserves of the entire region.

George wanted a war to stop that flow of oil, to keep prices (and profits) from falling any further than they already had. But like Roosevelt, he needed the "other side" to make the first move.

Iraq had long been trying to acquire greater access to the Persian Gulf, and felt limited confined a narrow strip of land along Kuwait's northern border, which placed Iraqi interests in close proximity with hostile Iran.

George Bush, who had been covertly arming Iraq during its war with Iran, sent word via April Glaspie that the United States would not intervene if Saddam Hussein grabbed a larger part of Kuwait. Saddam fell for the bait and invaded.

Of course, Americans were not about to send their sons and daughters to risk their lives for petroleum products. So George Bush arranged a hoax, using public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which has grown rich on taxpayer money by being most industrious and creative liars! Hill & Knowlton concocted a monumental fraud in which the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, went on TV pretending to be a nurse, and related a horror story in which Iraqi troops looted the incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital, leaving the premature babies on the cold floor to die.

The media, part of the swindle from the start, never bothered asking why the "nurse" didn't just pick the babies up and wrap them in blankets or something.

Enraged by the incubator story, Americans supported operation Desert
Storm, which never removed Saddam Hussein from power but which did
take Kuwait's oil off of the market for almost 2 years and limited Iraq's oil exports to this very day. That our sons and daughters came home with serious and lingering medical illnesses was apparently not too great a price to pay for increased oil profits.

Following the victory in Iraq, yet another war appeared to be in the
offering in the mineral rich regions of Bosnia. Yet again, a hoax was used to create support for military action.

The above photo of Fikret Alic, a Muslim, staring through a barbed wire fence, was used to "prove" that the Bosnians were running modern day "Concentration Camps". As the headline of "Belsen 92" indicates, all possible associations with the Nazi horrors were made to sell the necessity of sending yet more American troops into someone else's nation.

But when German Journalists went to Trnopolje, the site of the supposed Bosnian Concentration Camp. to film a documentary, they discovered that the photo was a fake! The camp at Trnopolje was not a concentration camp but a refugee center. Nor was it surrounded by barbed wire.

Careful examination of the original photo revealed that the photographer had shot the photo through a broken section of fence surrounding a tool shed. It was the photographer who was on the inside, shooting out at the refugees.

Once again, Americans had been hoaxed into support of actions they might otherwise not have agreed with.

While several American Presidents have willingly started wars for personal purposes, perhaps no President has ever carried it to the extreme that Bill Clinton has.

Coincident with the expected public statement of Monica Lewinsky following her testimony, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan and Afghanistan, claiming to have had irrefutable proof that bogeyman extraordinaire (and former Afghani ally) Osama Bin Ladin was creating terrorist chemical weapons there.

Examination of the photos of the debris revealed none of the expected
structures one would find in a laboratory that handled lethal weapons-grade materials. Assurances from the CIA that they had a positive soil test for biological weapons fell on their face when it was revealed that there had been no open soil anywhere near the pre-bombed facility.

Sudan requested that international observers come test the remains of the factory for any signs of the nerve gas Clinton had insisted was there. None was found. The Sudanese plant was a harmless aspirin factory, and the owner has sued for damages.

Later examination of the site hit in Afghanistan revealed it to be a mosque.

Meanwhile, back in Kosovo, stories about genocide and atrocities were
flooding the media (in time to distract from the Sudanese embarrassments), just as lurid and sensational and as it turns out often just as fictional as most of William Randolph Hearst's stories of atrocities against the Cubans.

Again, the government and the media were hoaxing Americans. The above
photo was shown on all the American networks, claiming to be one of
Slobodan Milosovic's Migs, shot down while attacking civilians. Closer
examination (click on the photo) shows it to be stenciled in English!

Like Germany under Chancellor Hitler, there have been events in our nation which strike fear into the hearts of the citizens, such as the New York World Trade Tower bombing, the OK City Federal Building, and the Olympic Park bomb (nicely timed to divert the media from witnesses to the TWA 800 shoot down).

The media has been very quick to blame such events on "radicals",
"subversives", "vast right wing conspiracies", and other "enemies in our midst", no different than the lies used by Cicero and Hitler.

But on closer examination, such "domestic terrorist" events do not appear to be what they are made out to be. The FBI had an informant inside the World Trade Tower bombers, Emad Salam, who offered to sabotage the bomb.

The FBI told him "no". The so-called "hot bed" of white separatism at Elohim City, occasional home to Tim McVeigh in the weeks prior to the OK City bombing, was founded and is being run by an FBI informant!

And nobody has ever really explained what this second Ryder truck was
doing in a secret camp half way from Elohim City to Oklahoma City two
weeks before the bombing.

So, here we are today. Like the Romans of Crassus' and Cicero's time, or the Germans under a newly elected Hitler, we are being warned that a dangerous enemy threatens us, implacable, invisible, omnipresent, and invulnerable as long as our government is hamstrung by that silly old Bill of Rights.

Already there have appeared articles debating whether or not
"extraordinary measures" (i.e. torture) are not fully justified under
certain circumstances such as those we are purported to face.

As was the case in Rome and Germany, the government continues to plead
with the public for an expansion of its power and authority, to "deal with the crisis".

However, as Casio watch timers are paraded before the cameras, to the
stentorian tones of the talking heads' constant dire warnings, it is
legitimate to question just how real the crises is, and how much is the result of political machinations by our own leaders.

Are the terrorists really a threat, or just hired actors with bombs and Casio watches, paid for by Cicero and given brown shirts to wear by Hitler?

Is terrorism inside the United States really from outside, or is it a stage managed production, designed to cause Americans to believe they have no choice but to surrender the Republic and accept the totalitarian rule of a new emperor, or a new Fuhrer?

Once lost, the Romans never got their Republic back. Once lost, the
Germans never got their Republic back. In both cases, the nation had to totally collapse before freedom was restored to the people.

Remember that when Crassus tells you that Sparticus approaches.

Remember that when thugs in the streets act in a manner clearly designed to provoke the public fear.

Remember that when the Reichstag burns down.


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Media Reform Daily
Who Will Hire the Next Molly Ivins?
As we mourn the passing this week of Molly Ivins, let us consider a young woman starting out today with the talent and promise that Molly showed when she began her career. In this time of media consolidation, what opportunities are open to her?
Evan Frisch, Daily Kos
Save the Internet
Markey Pledges Network Neutrality Fight
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said he planned an active agenda for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, adding that a blueprint for affordable and ubiquitous broadband access was job one.
John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Congress: Starting from Scratch on a National Media Policy
Unless Congress requires telephone and cable companies to act as neutral providers of Internet access, they will use their control over Internet access to speed up or down connections to Web sites to benefit themselves financially.
Catholic News Service
Five Questions for Jeff Chester
The reason that the cable and phone companies oppose Net Neutrality is they're desperate to extend their monopoly business model from multichannel video to the broadband world. They are trying to hijack the Internet in the United States.
Kent Gibbons, Multichannel News
Big Media Threatens Free Web
Timothy Karr, campaign director of SavetheInternet.com, warned students at Rutgers about the dangers facing the Internet from Big Media.
Tim Person, Rutgers Daily Targum
Lightspeed's Slow Start
AT&T is gearing up for the next big telecom battle -- for the supremacy of the Internet. But despite AT&T's stellar performance of late, the company faces serious questions about whether its Project Lightspeed can deliver on its promise.
Business Week
The Fragile Balance of Net Neutrality
An antitrust solution to Net Neutralilty is not a good alternative to good legislation. The government must set some basic rules for everyone to play by.
AssortedStuff
Make Net Neutrality the Law in 2007
Stop Big Media
Senate Committee Grills FCC Commissioners
A tone was set for the Feb. 1 Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the FCC that was more or less civil but not exactly a game of softball. It was the first time for any of the commissioners to appear before a Democratically controlled committee.
TV Technology
Loose FCC Regulation Means TV Monopolies
The battle between Mediacom and Sinclair has a conspicuous cause and an obvious solution. In recent years the FCC has all but abandoned historical restrictions on multiple ownership of broadcast licenses, creating an environment ripe for monopolies.
Scott G. Buchanan, Des Moines Register
Bad Radio Hurts Musicians
Just 15 formats make up three-quarters of all commercial radio programming. Over half the large station groups' programming is devoted to country, classic rock, talk, sports, news, oldies, contemporary hit radio, and adult contemporary.
Illinois Entertainer
Speak Up for Localism in Your Newspaper
Journalism and Beyond
When Will Journalism Get Serious About its Mission Again?
Is the media out of control or under control? Journalist Bill Moyers told a packed house of more than 3,000 activists and organizers attending the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis that the independent press is under constant siege.
Leigh Donaldson, Portland Press-Herald
The Importance of 'Seeing' the War
It is necessary to stand up for the principle of showing the public as much of the war as possible. We need the media to bring us the information and the images so we can take full measure of the military's position in Iraq. Otherwise we are blind.
Gal Beckerman, Columbia Journalism Review
Need for Media Reform is Topic of Debate
Top journalists and media reformers will gather at the Columbia School of Journalism on Feb. 8 to discuss whether or not media reform is good for journalism. Keynote speaker is Walter Cronkite, and panelists include FCC Commissioner Michael Copps.
Columbia School of Journalism
Conflict in Plane Sight
Can reporters accept gifts or special kindnesses from sources and still cover them objectively? And even if they can, doesn't such largess leave the appearance of conflict, which can be just as damaging?
Broadcasting & Cable
Flying High with the Money Honey
What happens when duties as a journalist -- duties to inform the public -- conflict with reporting news that would displease network-approved consorts on the intercontinental banquet circuit? Do we get the news, or do they get the Money Honey?
Edward Wasserman, Miami Herald
Murdoch Confesses to Propaganda on Iraq
Murdoch was asked if News Corp. had managed to shape the agenda on the war in Iraq. His answer? "We tried ..."
ePluribus Media
Molly Ivins: The Plucking Truth
The New York Times continues to censor Molly Ivins posthumously. They refuse to publish the colorful phrase she had written about a chicken slaughtering festival that prompted her ouster from the paper. But other papers printed it willingly.
Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher
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Members of the Defend The Press coalition spoke at the National Press Club about the court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada and pressure on journalists to participate in his prosecution. Watch here.
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Feb. 15th Strike! Walk Out!

Students at UC - Santa Barbara have initiated a one day student strike against the war on February 15th. Students at Columbia University, Occidental College, Fordham University, San Francisco State, U.C. Berkeley and Columbia College (Chicago) have now joined this call for a strike at their campuses and are planning protests on February 15th. February 15th marks the 4th anniversary of when millions of people came out around the world to protest Bush's planned war on Iraq. In the wake of Bush's escalation of a war that has already caused the deaths of 655,000 Iraqis and over 3,000 US soldiers, and threats to attack Iran, this student strike is urgently needed, and must spread to other campuses quickly. Now is not the time to be waiting for Congress to make slow incremental stops towards some eventual phased withdrawal. Now is the time for millions of people to get out and demand an end to the war immediately. Below is the call from several students at UC - Santa Barbara for the student strike: We, the students and staff of UC Santa Barbara, want to challenge our generation to put an end to the U.S. conquest of Iraq. Right now most opposition to the war is only symbolic. Congress is being sheepish and choosing not to end the war because we, the people, are not forcing them to act. Thus, if we really want to affect policies we need to withdraw our compliance and stop business as usual. Shutting down the university is the most immediate and powerful thing students can do on this front. Striking sends the message to our university's administration and the world that we will not tolerate our institution's grossly disproportionate ties to corporations and federal agencies that do nothing other than profit off war and prepare nuclear weapons. It also sends a message to the government that we will not be complicit in any illegal or immoral war. We have chosen to strike on the 15th of February in order to commemorate the largest peace demonstrations in human history. Following our strike will be a week-long teach-in designed to educate ourselves and those around us on the atrocities perpetrated by the U.S. government in Iraq. We are calling on the youth of our nation to join us in demonstrating our resistance to the government's disregard for human life. Join the strike! *** February 15: Student Strike Against the War A challenge to all students reading this: Forward this to everyone you know. Get together everyone you can on your campus tonight, read the call from students at UC - Santa Barbara, and organize a strike against the war on your campus Feb. 15th. Email us at youth_students@worldcantwait.org to let us know your campus is going on strike. From there, announce the strike in your classes & dorms, ask every student group to endorse the strike, ask professors to cancel their classes that day and instead talk to students about the reality of what's going on in Iraq right now, and spread this strike to other campuses. History is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

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News of the movement for February 1, 2007
FCC has imposed a new set of limitations on the power of local franchising authorities to negotiate with telcos who want to offer video services. Find out at Save Access why Congress should stop the FCC.
Media Reform Daily
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In Control, Democrats Host FCC's Martin
Although FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and the rest of the commissioners may face some tough questions, the tone of the Senate Commerce Committee meeting on the FCC is expected to be civil.
Brooks Boliek, Hollywood Reporter
New Questions for Senate Commerce Committee Oversight Hearings
At the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, FCC commissioners will likely be asked to talk about why, after six years of study, the FCC has yet to define the public interest obligations of digital broadcasters.
Broadcasting & Cable
FCC Expects to Face Queries on AT&T-BellSouth Merger
The Republican-majority FCC is getting its first taste of what life will be like under a Democratic-controlled Congress. They face the Senate Commerce Committee this morning and a House subcommittee later this month.
John Dunbar, Associated Press
Senator to Raise TV Concerns with FCC
A proposal to make Major League Baseball's "Extra Innings" exclusive to DirecTV has drawn the ire of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). He plans to raise the matter with the chairman of the FCC at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing today.
Associated Press
Sen. Feingold Calls for Strong Consent Decree on Payola
Senator Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) has sent a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee Chairman asking for questioning about payola and a strong decreee on the topic at the FCC oversight hearing.
FMBQ
Martin: Competitors Need Must-Have Cable Nets
In Senate testimony prepared for a Commerce Committee oversight hearing, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin indicated that he supports the extension of rules that force cable companies to sell programming to competing pay TV distributors.
Ted Hearn, Multichannel News
House FCC Oversight Hearing Scheduled for Feb. 15
The House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee will hold an oversight hearing on the FCC on Feb. 15.
John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
FCC Releases Data on High Speed Internet Access
The FCC released new data on high-speed connections to the Internet in the United States.
Federal Communications Commission
Initial Settlement Proposal for Radio Payola: $10 Million
An FCC proposal that the nation's four largest radio broadcasters pay $10 million in payments and other contributions for a payola settlement may overstep the commission's authority and may be revamped.
Paul Davidson, USA Today
National Conference for Media Reform
Grassroots Support for Independent Media
Big media corporations have got you by the cables, by the towers, by the satellites. The media channels most consumed by Americans are owned by a rapidly dwindling number of mega-corporations. Yet, big media companies still want more.
Tony Nadler, Pulse of the Twin Cities
Media: Reform or Remake?
It goes without saying that in a democracy media should operate as another check against the abuse of political power. But in America the mainstream media don't act as deterrent to abuses of power.
Colin Benjamin, Black Star News
Free the Press
A five-year-old movement to reform the news media is growing. At the recent National Conference for Media Reform, activists and journalists are moving beyond complaining about the media and are working together to change it at its roots.
Stephen Carter-Novotni, Fort Worth Weekly
Save the Internet
Net Neutrality a Top Issue for Congressman
Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Vir.) says Congress needs to deal with Net Neutrality before any other legislation concerning broadband provided is acted upon.
Grant Gross, Macworld
Net Neutrality, Broadband Taxes Top House Tech Agenda
A key House Democrat said his 2007 goals are to enact legislation related to Net Neutrality, patents, and broadband regulation and taxation, including authorizing local governments to offer their own Internet service.
Anne Broache, CNet
Lessig's Five-Point Net Proposal to Congress
Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig has identified five Internet-related issues that Congress should address this session.
Lawrence Lessig, Lessig Blog
IPTV and Net Neutrality, Part 2
When incumbents or cable MSOs can't get built-in favors in the way networks are managed, they petition state legislatures to have bias built into the law. This is the type of IPTV backroom lobbying game that undermines fairness in broadband access.
Loring Wirbel, EE Times
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Media Reform Daily
News of the movement for January 30, 2007
Stop Big Media
Local Media Diversity Matters
The FCC does not have the means or the will to determine whether its policies are promoting or discouraging independent and diverse speech. It has relied on flawed research and an unreliable and increasingly irrelevant market concentration formula.
Mark Lloyd and Phil Napoli, Center for American Progress
Cultivating the Media Garden
At the National Convention for Media Reform, media organizers, activists, and interested citizens packed the ballroom of the Memphis Convention Center to rally in a deafening call for change in the corporate media.
Laura S. Washington, In These Times
Media Reform Comes of Age
If you want to help change the media, get informed and get involved. Here are five steps you can take toward building a better media system.
Kevin Howley, Bloomington Alternative
Media Ownership, Lies, and the Internet
Despite the efforts of Big Media hacks to spread false claims about competition and access to local news, the fact is there are no more media outlets actually producing news than there ever was. And media conglomerates own most of those.
News Corpse
Write a Letter to Your Newspaper
Journalism and Beyond
Defend the Press, Sarah Olson, Declare Victory in Watada Court Martial
The U.S. government has agreed to drop two charges against Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada. As part of the agreement, two reporters, including Sarah Olson, who had been issued subpoenas to appear before the court-martial will not have to testify.
Center for Media and Democracy
Lt. Watada Prosecutors Surrender on Journalist Subpoenas
Army prosecutors of Lt. Ehren Watada dropped two charges and dismissed the subpoenas of two journalists, Oakland-based Sarah Olson and Greg Kakesako of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Jeff Paterson, CouragetoResist.org
Staying Inside the Beltway
Despite overwhelming public sentiment opposing the Iraq War expressed in opinion polls, in the streets of D.C. and elsewhere around the country, the network Sunday shows booked guests representative of the center-right spectrum in official Washington.
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Future of the Internet
Get Progressive in Telecom
The U.S. needs to rewrite two key parts of its telecom policy. Universal service must be brought into the 21st century to address not the lack of a phone line, but the lack of broadband.
Rick Merritt, EE Times
Us, Not You, for Person of the Year
If 2006 recognized "You" as Time's Person of the Year because of your technology-enabled capabilities, how about making 2007 the Year of Us by putting technology to even better use -- leveling the playing field for everyone?
Paul Lamb, Computer World
Internet TV Is Finally a Reality Show
Companies traditionally seen as big players in the computer industry have announced products that bridge the gap between the PC or Mac and TV. Each approach to IPTV may be different, but all are emphasizing delivery of "compelling content."
Cliff Edwards, Business Week
YouTube to Share Revenue with Content-Owners
YouTube plans to start sharing advertising revenue with content owners, borrowing a page from the playbook of its competitors like Revver and Break.
Daisy Whitney, TV Week
special event
Early Bird registration for the Women, Action & the Media Conference 2007 ends tomorrow. Join journalists and activists for a weekend with more than 60 speakers, Ellen Goodman and Thenmozhi Soundararajan.
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