Author: Paul

Year-end Wrap-up Now On-line Last Sunday’s RFC program, a year-end discussion with John Anderson of About.com’s radio page, is on-line in the Audio Archive.

Corp. Censorship happens in Canada too: Columnist quits paper in Canada’s largest chain over charges of editorial censorship. (via mediachannel.org)

Congress Asking Questions about Copy-Protected CDs CNET reports that Rep. Rick Boucher, Democrat from VA, is asking the recording industry about the legality of making copy protected CDs, in light of the 1992 Home Recording Act which specifically allows consumers to make personal-use copies of music they’ve purchased. The Act stipulates royalties be paid on…

Link-back – or – the mediageek virus spreads (slowly) I check my webserver logs every so often and see who’s visiting and where they’re linking from. I noticed a couple of new and interesting sites linking here to lil’ ol’ mediageek that are worth a look or a few: action figures sold separately is a…

Democracy Now Returns to Pacifica At its Dec. 29 meeting, the new Pacifica interim National Board voted to return the network’s (formerly) most popular news program to its five network-owned stations and its satellite network. Part of the agreement to return entails giving the Democracy Now staff back pay for the time they were in…

On Sunday’s Radio Free Conscience: 2001 Year-End Wrap-up Considering how much effort I put into it, I’m astonishingly bad at putting up any info about my radio show–which, incidentally, spawned this website in the first place. On Sunday’s edition I’ll talk for a half-hour with John Anderson, the guide for the radio page at About.com,…

The Progressive magazine is keeping tabs on political repression with their McCarthyism Watch.

Satellite (?) Radio?? I haven’t yet really commented on the emergence of nationwide satellite radio like XMRadio, mostly because I haven’t heard it, wasn’t sure it would actually come to fruition, and really hadn’t yet given it too much thought. But lately I’ve been getting questions about it and it seems as though the service…

I’m back, but still getting up to speed. Meanwhile: The Deal reports that Senators urge FCC to block EchoStar-DirecTV deal

I’m taking a little holiday break so there won’t be any big posts until Jan. 3. In the meantime here are some links to explore: The FCC is accepting petitions to deny the merger of DirecTV and Echostar/Dish Network direct satellite TV providers. The FCC has a page dedicated to the merger. Previously on mediageek:…