Month: October 2002
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Russians Blog the Truth Under Censors Radar
Wired News reports that Russians, including journalists, have been using blogs at LiveJournal.com to report news that won’t make it through the increasingly censored mainstream Russian media. In the most recent case, an dancer held hostage by the Chechen rebels used his cell phone to send messages to the outside which were posted on a…
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Challenging the FCC’s Roll-Over on Digital Radio
The Amherst Alliance has filed a motion with the FCC for a rehearing on IBOC digital radio. … If granted, a rehearing would be an opportunity to further explore and expose the inteference that IBOC digital broadcasting threatens to wreak on distant and low-power stations. …
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Anti-War Iraqis Aren’t News
Matt posted a focused critique of the mainstream coverage of Saturday’s Anti-War rally in DC: “One imbalance, of many, from the so-called mainstream media was the reporting of Iraqi nationals at the pro-war or “Patriot’s” rally, the small counter demonstration at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue. What was missing? The information that there were just…
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mediageek news headlines for the Oct. 25 radio show
Stories in this edition of headlines include: More time sought for media-ownership review; Senate Holds Up Dem FCC Nominee; WMATA/Metro Provides Free Ad Space for Anti-Gay Group
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mediageek — the radio show and website — making them work in concert
… I’m going to make an effort to post the weekly radio show news headlines, so that website readers don’t have to listen to the show just to catch up on the news of our media environment (though I hope you’ll give the show a listen, nonetheless)….
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Is Digital Radio a Goldmine for the Recording Industry? More on the RIAA quest for royalties.
A News.com article reports: “Digital conversion will put radio under the purview of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial 1998 law that some believe has greatly expanded the powers of copyright holders. ” In short, this means that when broadcasting in digital a traditional brodcast station indeed may have to pay royalties to the…
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Recording Industry’s Been Banging the Royalties Drum For a Long Damn Time; The Quest for Total Control Is Endless
Let’s go back eleven years, to 1991. Like now, the recording industry was in a pitched battle over piracy. Only then, the ship was called “home taping,” not mp3. Digital audio tape, which would allow for bit-perfect copies of CDs, was threatening to land stateside from Japan, and blank audiocassette sales were through the roof.…
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Wired Finally Gets Critical of IBOC Digital Radio
Wired News has now decided to take a listen to critics of IBOC Digital Radio, like Pete TriDish of the Prometheus Low-Power Radio Project and the Media Access Project. Hooray for Wired News — it’s good to know that they’re not just industry shills. Too bad that they mostly only reach a tech-savvy geek crowd…
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It’s Time for Indy Journalists To Start Pissing People Off
…It’s time to break some eggs, and get the attention of more of the public, even those who might not give two shits about a protest in DC, and who may not even give two shits about protestors being pre-emptively arrested and brutalized. We don’t have to pander to them — we have to piss…