Global press freedom declines in 2007: study

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Global_press_freedom_declines_in_20_04292008.html
Global press freedom declined in 2007 for the sixth year running, with worrisome restrictions imposed in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, the rights group Freedom House has stated in a report.
The Washington-based organization expressed concern about violence against journalists in a number of countries, including Russia, Mexico and the Philippines on Tuesday.
Iraq and Somalia [...]

Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

 

April 20, 2008
Message Machine

 
By DAVID BARSTOW
 

In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its [...]

The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell

Glenn Greenwald
Salon
Monday, April 7, 2008
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to “domestic military operations” within the [...]

Hot on the trail of expanding low power community radio!

We are hot on the trail of expanding low power community radio aroundthe country, both in Congress and at the FCC. Thanks to the efforts of low power radio supporters like you, the Local Community Radio Act :
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR02802:@@@P) —
which will lift the restrictions on Low Power FM — has 70 co-sponsors in the House [...]

Veto the FCC’s Big Media Handout

Dear Missoula Community Radio, 
Congress can overturn the FCC’s bad rules to further consolidate local media.
Veto the FCC’s Big Media Handout 
 
Now’s your best chance to stop media consolidation in Montana.
The Senate introduced legislation earlier this week that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to let the nation’s largest media companies swallow up more local and [...]

POLL: Over Half Of Americans Say They Do Not Trust The Press

Think Progress
Friday, March 7, 2008

A new Harris Interactive poll finds that over half of Americans — 54 percent — say they tend not to trust the press, “with only 30 percent tending to trust the press.” More Americans (41 percent) trust “Internet news and information sites” than they do the mainstream media. Radio tends to [...]

The Local Community Radio Act (H.R. 2802/ S. 1675)

Call on your elected officials to co-sponsor the Local Community Radio Act:
Hundreds of activists from around the country are descending upon Washington today to tell Congress that we need better and more diverse local radio.
The Local Community Radio Act (H.R. 2802/ S. 1675) will open up the airwaves to more diverse, independent, Low Power FM [...]

Adbusters Media Foundation: The Right to Communicate

Jan 03, 2008 16:50 ET

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 3, 2008) – On Monday, January 7th, the British Columbia Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on whether or not Adbusters’ lawsuit against Global Television, the CBC, and the CRTC, should go forward. If the Adbusters lawsuit clears this hurdle, media rights advocates will [...]

Air America Returns to Missoula

KMPT at AM 930 on Your Radio Dial
Progressive Talk Back in Missoula

By Robert Struckman, 12-31-07
Liberal talk will be back in Missoula, starting in the wee hours of the morning Thursday.
And no, Al Franken will not be involved. The former star of Air America Radio, the national New York-based progressive talk radio network, has moved to [...]

The FCC’s Christmas Gift to Big Media

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/26/6001/
by Amy Goodman

On Dec. 18, the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission met in Washington, D.C., and, by a 3 to 2 vote, passed new regulations that would allow more media consolidation. This, despite the U.S. public’s increasing concern over the nation’s media being controlled by a few giant corporations.
Dissident FCC Commissioner Michael Copps [...]