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Bill Moyers Investigating the Nation’s Largest Radio Crook…er, Company? Broadcasting and Cable reports that PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers is ‘ is said to be working on a piece about “business models and vertical integration” in the radio business,” which apparently will include Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio station owner, which now also owns…

When Being the Media Is Vital and Necessary The Guardian writes about the Palestine IMC: “When the Israeli tanks rolled into Bethlehem, the only organisation left behind to report was a fledgling DIY news website. But that was enough.” The article shows how IMCs work, along with how important it is to connect the world…

The obvious truth in two sentences: The NY Times interviewed Phil Donahue about his new talk program on MSNBC. I just had to share this simple little pearl of observation: Q: Why do you think liberal voices are so rare on television? A: Conservatives criticize government and liberals criticize business. And that is not something…

Friday’s mediageek radio show Now On-line Despite the last three posts, I promise not all blog entries will be radio show related. Actually, the whole show is not on-line, since it was pledge drive at WEFT and so that consumes a portion of the program that would otherwise be chock-full of prime mediageek content. Rather…

Mad Props for mediageek radio show The esteemed Carl Estabrook noted the aforementioned radio show in his biweekly column in the local alternative weekly, mentioning it as one of The Octopus, calling it one of “a couple of good new radio programs on the subject” of media criticism. Carl further compliments because the other show…

On Today’s Edition of the mediageek radio show: It’s the first pledge drive edition. I’ll have an interview with Skidmark Bob of Freak Radio Santa Cruz, an unlicensed “pirate” radio station that recently celebrated its seventh anniversary on the air. I’ll also have some media news headlines. Hear it live on air Friday at 5:30…

CNet reports on the efforts of new satellite radio providers to slap limits on wireless Internet which they claim will interfere with their broadcasts (though it apparently hasn’t yet). Previously: The BCC asks, “What if the net was as free as air?”; Sirius Satellite Radio Says: WAH! Stop It! 3/21/02

The SF Chronicle has a nice overview of the media industry’s current efforts to seize total control of copyright law and all technologies used for using and creating media.

Some intellectual property stuff: Lawmeme — a pretty good law blog from the Yale Law School — has an annotated version of ZDNet’s interview with movie industry bossman Jack Valenti. Tellingly, the Valenti interview is entitled, “Terrorized by file swappers.” (oh, boo hoo, poor Jack. Can my interview be called “terrorized by greedy myopic corporate…

Friday’s mediageek radio show is now on-line. It was a fun show, though I was a bit more nervous and off-kilter than usual because the program that comes on before mediageek (free speech radio news) wasn’t on due to more satellite errors, and because the station’s pledge drive began at 6:00 PM, immediately following the…