'Media Regulation' Category
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My beef with big media
August 2, 2004“My beef with big media” by Ted Turner. Washington Monthly July/August, 2004. To get a flavor of how consolidated the industry has become, consider this: In 1990, the major broadcast networks–ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox–fully or partially owned just 12.5 percent of the new series they aired. By 2000, it was 56.3 percent. Just two [...]
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FCC open meeting in Monterey
July 19, 2004Corporate Media and Local Interests / Downsizing the monster The issue is whether a few large conglomerates will be ceded content control over our music, entertainment and information; gatekeeper control over the civic and political dialogue of our country; and veto power over the majority of what we and our families watch, hear and read. [...]
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FCC rules shot down by Appeals court
July 6, 2004AlterNet: Media Reformers Look Beyond Philadelphia The June 24 federal appeals court decision against the FCC loosening of media-ownership rules marks a win for millions of Americans concerned about consolidation of media outlets, but the campaign against big media is far from over, advocates say. This isn’t the end, however. The FCC rules were sent [...]
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Report on WIPO broadcast treaty
June 17, 2004A law unto themselves, by John Naughton Sunday June 13, 2004 The Observer. This article describes a draft treaty at a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting that could have world wide consequences. Experience over the last decade has shown us how established industries react when they are threatened by new technology. First they go into [...]
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More need, New Needs for the FCC?
June 8, 2004While Declan suggests that the FCC is no longer needed, we see today’s Wall Street Journal has a story that describes new problems, caused by technological changes, that, it seems to me, may require more regulation, not less. . Airports Clash With Airlines Over Wi-Fi by Amy Schatz. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, [...]
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Declan says: die FCC
June 8, 2004Why the FCC should die Declan McCullagh argues pursuasively that the FCC has outlived its usefulness and has become a major source of “bureaucratic malfeasance” (media centralization, restricting first amendment rights…). I agree with the first part of his thesis. However, his solution of privatizing the whole spectrum is completely off the mark. The airwaves [...]
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Moyers addresses News Guild
May 26, 2004Bill Moyers | An Eye On Power: Address delivered at the Newspaper Guild/Communication Workers of America dinner on May 19, 2004. as secrecy grows, and media conglomerates put more and more power in fewer and fewer hands, we have witnessed the rise of a new phenomenon-a quasi-official partisan press ideologically linked to an authoritarian administration [...]
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State of the news media 2004
March 18, 2004Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2004 This site provides a comprehensive look at the state of American journalism divided into the major journalism sectors. Much original and aggregated data found here.
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CPI expands media ownership DB
January 28, 2004The Center for Public Integrity has expanded its Web-based, one-of-a-kind media ownership search to include network designations for television stations and information on the nation’s largest newspapers. The search was built using FCC data and supplemented by hundreds of hours of research by Center staff. Simply plug in a zip code or city name and [...]
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McChesney: Media and politics
December 31, 2003Check out Robert McChesney.com. You’ll find a collection of his works on media, politics and communication theory. His weekly radio show, “Media Matters” is archived on the site so you can stream audio interviews with folks like Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine, Amy Goodman, producer and co-host of Democracy Now, and Michael [...]