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Author: Paul

  • Laura Flanders says “After years

    Laura Flanders says “After years of focusing on issues of personnel and policy, it’s time for Pacifica to refocus on programming.

  • …and then, after all that

    …and then, after all that finger-tapping rumination about blogging I stumbled on (thanks to blogdex) Blowback, self-described as “dedicated to elevating mediocrity to modest heights, which is harder work than it sounds. It takes elbowgrease and browsweat to cobble recycled news and ill-formed opinion together into an appalling package; a formidable challenge to mount a…

  • Blogging, “Warblogging,” and Punditry.Is There an Effect? Is There a Point?

    Criticizing the “Warbloggers” — I found this heated article that takes to task “libertarian” webloggers who take snide shots at prominent commentators and fellow bloggers who dare to raise a voice in objection to the undeclared war in Afghanistan. Ironically, I found this article on the site of one of these “warbloggers,” who patronizingly qualifies…

  • Small Market Consolidation

    Small Market Consolidation Broadcasting & Cable reports that the FCC just issued a waiver for TV station duopolies in New Haven, CT and Asheville, NC. A duopoly is where one company owns two properties in a given media market, and are generally prohbited for TV stations by FCC rules. Waivers for the duopoloy rules can…

  • The Corporate Accountability Project has

    The Corporate Accountability Project has a really nice annotated compendium of links and resources on media reform on its Media Reform Information Center. I like the logical organization, clean layout and spiffy graph showing the rapidly consolidating oligarchy of media owners.

  • More Pacifica Movement

    More Pacifica Movement At this past weekend’s Pacifica National Board meeting the new board majority of reformers made more progress in restoring the progressive radio network as a packed house audience looked on and participated. Amongst the resolutions made during the meeting, the board decided to appoint fired former Pacifica news director Dan Couglin as…

  • Declan McCullough’s Politech list offers

    Declan McCullough’s Politech list offers the following warning about the Bush Admin’s scary fight to allow Congress to take works that have lapsed into the public domain and reinstate copyright (via machination.org).

  • Some Quick Links

    Some Quick Links Blogger was off and on yesterday (mostly off), so I couldn’t publish most of the things I wanted to. But now a day later there’s more in my queue, so I’m just going to put quick links to yesterday’s items w/o my usual enrapturing commentary. On intellectual property: Kuro5hin has an article…

  • There’s been some activity over

    There’s been some activity over on the DIY-Files recently. Check it out.

  • The New York Times says

    The New York Times says that Satellite Radio Shows Growth. Maybe I’m wrong in thinking that it costs too much. Or maybe the Times is just rolling along in that usual tech “journalist” hype mode (all cool new technologies are great, until they turn out to be losers. Come to think of it, there is…