Month: October 2004
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Sinclair Doesn’t Mess Around: Reporter Fired for Speaking Out
The boys over at Sinclair don’t miss a beat in emulating their heroes in the Bush Administration — they’ve already shit-canned their Washington bureau chief (click here for the registration-free version of that article) over comments he made that were critical of Sinclair’s decision to force its stations to air an anti-Kerry program in prime…
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Sinclair’s Lead Political Reporter Denounces Anti-Kerry Program
Today the Baltimore Sun reports that the Washington bureau chief for Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group’s news division has come out to denounce his employer for forcing all of its owned and operated stations to air an anti-Kerry program: “It’s biased political propaganda, with clear intentions to sway this election,” said Jon Leiberman, Sinclair’s lead political…
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Talkin’ to the Press about Sinclair
Oh the joys of living in a small town… It means that if you do a local community radio show on the media, then you, too, can become a media pundit. As I mentioned yesterday, I was interviewed by a Daily Illini reporter for a story on Sinclair airing the anti-Kerry documentary. I’m relieved to…
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Comment On Sinclair
Free Press has set up a page to help you find your local Sinclair-owned TV station in order to contact it and also send a comment to the FCC. I can get with the canned e-mail they have to send to the FCC: Sinclair Broadcasting’s decision to force their stations to air an anti-Kerry documentary…
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Problems with Radio Show archives solved
In order to lighten the load on the server that hosts mediageek.org, I was using Archive.org’s Freecache service to cache the 64 kbps mp3 and ogg archives of the radioshow. Unfortunately, Freecache died without any real notice, putting these archives off-line, and I didn’t figure it out until today. Luckily, it’s an easy problem to…
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Media EmergenC Wrap-Up
San Diego IMC has a wrap-up compendium of coverage of the Media EmergenC convergence and counter-conference that happened there last weekend while the National Association of Broadcasters’ Radio Show convention was in town. On last Friday’s radio show we talked to Jacob, one of the volunteers behind the EmergenC. The show is on-line for download…
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Wired News provides a smidgen more clarity on the Indymedia Hard Drive Seizure
From a story today in Wired News: According to Devin Theriot-Orr, a Seattle-based IndyMedia volunteer and an attorney with Edwards, Sieh, Smith, and Goodfriend, around Sept. 22 IndyMedia volunteers received e-mail from Rackspace requesting the removal of the posting and alleging that it contained personal information about and threats against the two officers. The posting…
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The Sinclair Situation: It’s a Matter of Ownership and Exploitation of Resource
Due to crazy ISP connection problems, I couldn’t post to the blog Monday and Tuesday, so I didn’t have a chance to comment on the whole Sinclair anti-Kerry documentary thing in a more timely manner. A reporter from the daily U of I newspaper called me today for a comment and his first question was,…
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EFF Sheds a Little Light on IMC Hard Drive Seizure, Promises Action
The Electronic Frontier Foundationhas a press release on the return of the global Indymedia hard drives. They note that the FBI has denied involvement, tracing the seizure back to a court order asked for by the United States Attorney’s Office in San Antonio. The EFF vows to get to the bottom of the situation: EFF…
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Indymedia Hard Drives Returned, but still more questions than answers
According to the Urbana-Champaign IMC’s Sascha Meinrath, hard drives seized from global Indymedia web servers by the FBI last week were returned this morning to Rackspace, Indymedia’s ISP. Indymedia still has received no official word about why the hard drives were seized, though we do know that at least four countries were involved–Switzerland, Italy, the…