Author: Paul

ABC Says If There’s Not Enough Violence, It’s Not News Chuck0 of the excellent Infoshop.org News Kiosk reports that ABC’s Nightline decided not to run a piece they had produced that focuses on a group of protestors at the WEF this past weekend: Among the reasons cited by ABC Nightline producer Ted Gerstein is that…

CD Copy Protection Stuff Writer Neil McAllister expounds with common sense analysis on “The Big Rip-Off; Labels move to block CD audio ripping” in the SF Gate. This follows wide coverage yesterday that Philips, the co-inventor of the CD format, is unhappy with CD copy protection strategies that insert errors into the data in order…

Mainstream Reports on RaisetheFist Bust Newsbytes files this report on the bust, bringing quotes from the FBI to the table: “People can rant and rave on the Internet all they want, but when they cross the line of calling people to action to violently overthrow the Constitution of the United States, they have a problem,”…

Leave It to Canada Every so often I spin the Internet radio dial around to find some interesting radio news as an alternative to my regular dose of the BBC World Service, NPR, and community radio. Tonight I thought I’d check out Radio Canada Int’l, and hear another anglophone nation’s take on the world. First…

RaisetheFist.com Is Back Up And they’re trying to restore from an archive of the site from before the raid. The webmaster of RaisetheFist posted an update to Los Angeles Indymedia today. And NYC IMC has this compliation of info and links on the raid.

NYC, WEFT, Protestors and the Media Things are gearing up in New York City for the World Economic Forum. As I noted yesterday, it seems the local media already has it in for the protestors, and they haven’t even hit the streets yet. On Free Speech Radio News today they did a segment on this,…

Feminist Rap Artist Sues FCC According to the NY Times Sarah Jones, whose song “Your Revolution” garnered an indecency violation from the FCC for community radio station KBOO, has filed suit against the Commission, charging that her song is not indecent and that fining KBOO for playing it is a violation of her first amendment…

FAIR: NYC Newspapers Smear Activists Ahead of WEF Protests “In a few days, the World Economic Forum will hold its annual meeting, an elite gathering of what the WEF calls the worldÂ’s “top decision-makers”– in other words, big business leaders and government officials. The event usually takes place in Davos, Switzerland, but will be in…

Attacking the Nation’s Largest Radio Giant Attorneys for M&M Broadcasting have filed a petition with the FCC urging the commission to investigate the business practices of Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio owner, with 460 stations. The petitions allege that Clear Channel “uses front companies to buy and hold radio stations for itself until the…

Study Says TV News Is “Pro-[Bush] Administration” — We Need Indymedia TV! Despite the mainstream media’s current love-affair with the accusation of its liberal bias, Electronic Media reports that a new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that, unsurprisingly, TV News especially is less likely to challenge the gov’t than print media.…