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Month: November 2003

  • What’s Going on around the FTAA in Miami — You Won’t Find Much in the Mainstream Press

    Yesterday I spent some time at the U-C IMC helping to do phone interviews with our reporters on the streets in Miami, and then posting updates to the U-C IMC website. I arrived at the IMC just before the police made a major and violent offensive against peaceful protestors gathered a few blocks away from…

  • In Bed With Power: Mainstream Reporters Embedded With Miami Police

    A sure indicator that the US police state sees itself as waging war on its own citizens — the Miami Police have taken a page from Bush’s war propaganda book and invited reporters to be embedded with the cops while they force back, pepper spray and beat anti-FTAA protestors. According to Miami’s WPLG-TV and the…

  • Turn to Independent Media for What’s Really Going on in Miami at the FTAA

    In case you weren’t aware, I want to point out that there will be thousands of people on the streets of Downtown Miami this week to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas Summit, beginning Thursday. The FTAA is an attempt to bring NAFTA style so-called “free trade” to the entire western hemisphere. A…

  • Radioshow archives update: Live Report from Media Reform Conferences; Indymedia Reporters Going To Miami

    The radioshow page is now fully up to date with all the show archives that are available on-line. Now up are the following shows: Nov. 7: Live report from the National Conference on Media Reform and the Be the Media! Conference, from mediageek host Paul Riismandel and John Anderson, of DIYmedia.net. Nov. 14: The FTAA…

  • How the Dittoheads Elevate Our Discourse

    As I noted a few days ago, a column in the American Spectator decrying the liberal and lefty failure to have much sympathy for Rush Limbaugh’s drug problems quoted the ‘geek as one example of this “angry, cowardly, and vile hate-fest.” (Of course, my response is along the lines of: the pot calling the kettle…

  • What’s Up With Chris Plummer?

    The Internet is a crazy place sometimes. Today the mediageek site is getting hundreds and hundreds of hits from people using various search engines looking for “Chris Plummer CBS Marketwatch,” or some similar variation. Inexplicably, one old mediageek post comes up as the top, or close to the top search result all around. Of course,…

  • Independent Views and Coverage on the Media Reform & Be the Media! Conferences

    In case you haven’t been reading the Be The Media! Blog, here are some some links to coverage highlights of the National Conference on Media Reform and the Be the Media! conference, that happened in Madison, WI, this past weekend (Nov 7-9). (Of course, this is just a sampling of some interesting bits — read…

  • A Good, Long, Tiring Day

    The first day of the Nat’l Conference on Media Reform was fun and exhausting. Most satisfying is that we carried off all the mp3/shoutcast audio streams without a hitch, maxing out the bandwidth for most of the streams. I think that means people were interested in hearing the sessions and that it was a valuable…

  • Listen in to the Conference on Media Reform

    Things are in place for the webcasting of several of the Conference’s sessions, including tonight’s big events, a speech by Ralph Nader and the kick off of the Tell The Truth Tour, featuring: Musical Performances by Billy Bragg, The Nightwatchman and Lester Chambers. More information at www.tellusthetruth.org. Plus remarks by MC John Nichols, The Nation/Free…

  • Get Ready for the Right-Wing Flames — The American Spectator Takes Note of Mediageek

    That’s the beauty of the Internet, isn’t it? You don’t have to be a prominent syndicated radio host or TV talking head anymore to catch the eye of the press. No, you just need a website, like this one here. All of a sudden the number of profanity-laden comments to this site about “stupid liberals…