'Media Regulation' Category
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Powell to step down as FCC chair
January 21, 2005Business > Powell Is Stepping Down as Chairman of F.C.C.” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/business/21cnd-powell.html?ex=1264050000&en=704d891842c25da8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>Powell Is Stepping Down as Chairman of F.C.C. This just in from the NY Times: Michael Powell is stepping down as FCC Chair in March. The list of replacements includes: another Republican member of the commission, Kevin Martin; Becky Klein, a former head of the [...]
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FCC rules changes remain in limbo
January 6, 2005Free Press News : FCC media rules remain in limbo Consumer activists, backed by smaller and independent media concerns, challenged the rules and won. A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled in June 2004 that the FCC had failed to justify its overhaul of the media regulations. It ordered the agency to reconsider the rules, [...]
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Podcasting vs. Clear Channel
January 3, 2005Podcasting is DIY radio for programmers and listeners alike. Will it save us from corporate radio? Or further isolate us inside our own miniature media worlds? BY DAN KENNEDY. The Boston Phoenix, January 3, 2005. Thanks to MediaCitizen
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More on OFAC publishing ruling
December 17, 2004OFAC reverses embargo ruling By John Dudley Miller The Scientist December 16, 2004. In a reversal of almost all of the controversial prohibitions enacted in September 2003 that led to a lawsuit against it by a coalition of US publishers 3 months ago, the Treasury Department reauthorized American authors and publishers to collaborate with and [...]
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U.S. firms now need OK to publish authors from nations under sanction
December 7, 2004Will voices of dissent still be heard? By Scott Martelle Los Angles Times (Dec 7 2004) Part E; Pg. 1. [free registration required] In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American firms from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they [...]
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FCC commish Copps takes on media consolidation
October 26, 2004Michael Copps: An FCC Commissioner taking on Big Media Read on to learn more about what FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is doing about media consolidation. The quote below just makes one want to *sigh*! Indeed, Copps says his town hall meetings were mostly ignored by news media, including cities where they took place. At a [...]
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Ghost of Nixon in Bush whitehouse
October 17, 2004Arts > Frank Rich: Will We Need a New ‘All the President’s Men’?” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/arts/17rich.html?ex=1255492800&en=8c2a594add800736&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>Frank Rich: Will We Need a New ‘All the President’s Men’? (NYT: 10/17/04 Arts section) “The fundamental right of Americans, through our free press, to penetrate and criticize the workings of our government is under attack as never before,” wrote William Safire [...]
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Outfoxed interviews released under CC
September 20, 2004Outfoxed interviews released under Creative Commons Go to Torrentocracy to download all the interviews used in the movie, “Outfoxed”. Robert Greenwald has agreed to release the interviews within Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism under a Creative Commons non-commercial license (press release). “maybe, just maybe, we can paradigm shift ourselves to a place where all [...]
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CJR on media consolidation
August 26, 2004Who Owns What The Columbia Journalism Review web site offers a searchable list of media properties, timelines for six major media conglomerates, and links to nearly six years of the Review’s articles about media ownership in its Who Owns What section.
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Lessig: copyrighting the president
August 22, 2004Copyrighting the President Wired 12(8), August, 2004. Laurence Lessig raises a very interesting point here. Basically, copyright can have a negative affect on political discourse, especially given our 21st century reality of media consolidation and concentration. Read on! The US president owns neither his words nor his image – at least not when he speaks [...]