Month: March 2002

on friday’s mediageek radio show: indy/grassroots media news update, an interview with two volunteers from Champaign-Urbana’s new Spanish-language newspaper El Informador, and a review of Robert Rodriguez’s journal cum book documenting his journey from scrappy indie filmmaker to Hollywood sensation, Rebel Without a Crew. The mediageek radio show airs Fridays 5:30 PM on community radio…

LA Weekly Socks It to KPFK and Pacifica; I’m Left Wincing Reading this article — “Family Feud; The left eats its own at KPFK” — made me wince many times… out of sympathy… out of recognition… at times kind of like watching a bad sit-com where a poorly cliched “comedy of errors” is about to…

Medialife Magazine interviews an Angel of the Public Interest for the benefit of the industry. A choice nugget: Medialife: What do you say to the anti-regulatory argument that the profusion of new channels of media made possible by satellite TV, digital cable and the internet makes old ownership restrictions obsolete? Angel: I think the same…

Mediachannel features this short essay by community-TV pioneer DeeDee Halleck: “Why We Need Community Media”

There’s a bunch of Indymedia coverage of Friday’s protests in front of the FCC: DC Indymedia has this article: “Public Interest Angels Descend on FCC,” by John Tarleton Video: Cheerleader Ken’s Critical Media Analysis, by jonathan A compendium of links to other articles, videos and audio. Video: Jennifer Pozner Talks about Feminist Media @ Media…

mediageek radio show 3/22/02: angels of the public interest @ the fcc; homelessness marathon host loses radio program Listen to the whole program in Real Audio (30 min), or choose a segment: Part 1 (17 min): Reports on the Angels of the Public Interest protest at the FCC. Amy Aidman, project coordinator for the Illinois…

AFL-CIO Says Keep Ban on Cross-Ownership My friend Peter Miller, who produces the Illinois Labor Hour on WEFT, alerted me to the following news item from the AFL-CIO’s weekly newsletter: KEEP MEDIA OWNERSHIP RULE–The AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees has joined with consumer advocates and civil rights groups to support retaining the Federal Communications Commission…

Former Pacifica Reporters Settle Strike The reporters who now produce the daily Free Speech Radio News have voted to approve the Pacifica Board’s resolution to end the strike the reporters have been holding against Pacifica since 2000. Free Speech Radio News will remain an independent program, but is carried by Pacifica’s satellite system for carriage…

Adbusters Speaks at Madison The Madison IMC has audio and an article from a talk given by the creative director and art director of Adbusters magazine, the “journal of the mental environment.” The talk was geared towards artists and designers, which is a group that Adbusters has been actively courting to join in their fight…

On Today’s mediageek Radio Show Today on the mediageek radio show I’ll be interviewing Jeremy Alderson, aka ‘Nobody,’ host of the annual Homeless Marathon on his being taking off the air at his former home station, WEOS in Geneva, NY. Alderson’s political talk show covered issues in biotech which apparently didn’t sit well with neighboring…