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What’s So Alternative About Alternative Weeklies?
The Columbia Journalism Review’s Matt Welch takes the Alt. Weekly establishment to task after attending their annual convention: “The dull pieties of official progressivism is one of many attributes that show how modern alt weeklies have strayed from what made them alternative in the first place. The papers once embraced amateur writers; now they are…
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Last Minute Stay of Execution for Media Ownership Rules
A three justice panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia today blocked the implementation of the FCC’s new loosened media ownership rules, which were supposed to go into effect tomorrow. The block was prompted by the numerous legal challenges that have been mounted against the rules. The Court’s order said, “Given the…
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Clear Channel Quiety Acquiesces to Negativland
During last year’s Reclaim the Media Conference in Seattle — coincident with the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Convention — the ‘mosquito fleet’ of six unlicensed micropower radio stations simultaneously broadcast a Negativland-produced 24 minute jab at Clear Channel’s KJR-FM, taking the station to task for playing lots of 80s song in their “Superhits of…
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Another ‘Zine Note: Now Available @ Atomic Books in Baltimore
The headline says it all. If you’re in the Baltimore area, you can just walk right in to Atomic Books and buy the mediageek zine. Or, you can order it on-line — click here and scroll down to the “zines” section.
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The Poop On the Mediageek Zine
The excellent ‘zine review blog Poopsheet has given the mediageek zine a gander, and concludes: “I found every piece in this zine to be informative, helpful and encouraging. Definitely recommended to anybody who needs media creation demystified or just wants some good advice on making their own. ” So, what are you waiting for? Order…
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Site Problems
The server that houses mediageek.org is having all sorts of problems with its ‘net connection and router. That means that the site is periodically unavailable — sometimes for just a few seconds, sometimes for much longer. Of course, this is annoying as all hell, but I do know that smart geeks are busting their brains…
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Vermont’s Radio Free Brattleboro Back On the Air
The Brattleboro Reformer published an editorial in support of that community’s unlicensed FM station–which was
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Copps Calls Powell’s Bluff
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, the staunchest opponent against loosening media ownership rules on the Commission, released his own statement in answer to Chairman Powell’s announcment of a new “task force” to study the effect of media consolidation on localism. The man says it best himself: “This proposal is a day late and a dollar short.…
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New Show On-Line: Free Radio Milwaukee
Last Friday’s mediageek radio show is now on-line (but not quite yet listed on the radio show page). It features an interview with a volunteer from Free Radio Milwaukee, which is currently off the air, along with the usual media news wrap-up. Listen in: Low-bandwidth MP3 (16 kbps; 4 MB) Broadcast-quality MP3 (64 kbps; 13…
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Powell Shaken? Or Is He Spinning?
Today FCC Chair Mikey Powell held a press conference announcing the formation of a task force to study the effect of media consolidation on localism, especially local TV news. He acknowledged the public and Congressional outcry over the recent rules changes and even promised that the task force will hold public hearings. Finally, Powell promised…