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Author: Paul

  • Media Ownership Roundup on Special Mediageek Radio Show

    A special one-hour edition of the mediageek radio show will air this Monday, June 30 at 6:00 PM on community radio WEFT 90.1 FM, Champaign, IL. The show is a round-up of previous coverage on the FCC’s recent review and loosening of media ownership rules, along with updates on recent moves in Congress to modify…

  • From Friday’s Mediageek Radio Show

    Friday’s mediageek radio show featured an interview with Cristoph Meyer, who publishes the excellent zine 28 Pages Lovingly Bound with Twine. Cristoph is off-line, but you can order a copy of his newest issue directly from him for the low low price of $2: Cristoph Meyer P.O. Box 106 Danville, OH 43014 USA As typical…

  • If you want to pass, better massage the gatekeeper; or: a conservative media loveaffair

    New York Magazine’s Michael Wolff links up the Powell FCC’s recent regulatory gift to the broadcast industry (and newspapers) with the pass the mainstream media has given the Bush administration (and Mikey Powell’s daddy) over the question of WMDs that still haven’t shown up in Iraq. Even though, for me, the quid pro quo is…

  • Info For Today’s Mediageek Radio Show

    On today’s radio show my feature is an interview with Jerianne who is the editor of Zine World – A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press, and who publishes her own personal zine, Rejected Band Names. You can find out more info from Zine World at their website, Or just go ahead and order a…

  • Assessing Media Ownership Rules

    I just posted to the Urbana-Champaign IMC my analysis of the FCC’s media ownership rules changes and the bill that exited the Senate Commerce Committee’s today that would rollback some of the FCC’s changes. In order to make this all more concrete, I try to figure out how these rules and this bill would affect…

  • Senate Commerce Committee OKs Media Rules Roll-back

    I received the following (mass-mailed) missive from Bob McChesney and the Free Press Media Reform Network: There was a significant victory in the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday, June 19, as it voted to overturn key elements of the corrupt FCC decision to loosen media ownership rules on June 2. It is due almost entirely to…

  • Checking the Nation’s Pulse on Media Regulation

    As we would hope, the Onion has its thermometer thrust deep into the American psyche and has accurately measured the populace’s temperature on the issue of media regulation. In their regular feature, “What Do You Think?” the perceptive Onion staff interview people in the street to gauge their thoughts on the important topics of the…

  • From the Mediageek Zine: A Radical Media Call To Arms

    As I mentioned earlier, I have completed the first issue of the mediageek zine, my new print project which made its debut at the Allied Media Conference. It’s 38 pages full of rants, how-tos and reviews, with a neat-o mediageek sticker affixed to the front of every copy. The contents are: mediageekery – welcome from…

  • Sen. Orrin Hatch Wants to Destroy Your Computer in the Name of the RIAA

    This is so obviously screwed up, that I can’t even muster a comment: “The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet. The surprise remarks by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, during a hearing on copyright abuses…

  • Hello From Bowling Green

    I’m here at the Allied Media Conference in lovely Bowling Green, OH. It’s been a fun first day of tabling and going to a few sessions. I’ve only been to two — both caucuses for the Indymedia Centers in attendance and on organizing microcinemas. They were both productive, though I wish we could have a…