NEWS DELAY – Radio stories from March

LPFM strategies across the South from Prometheus Radio Exploring the power of participatory radio in the Deep South Raleigh’s racist radio from No Warning Shots Fired Baton Rough Progressive Network gets their radio license back LPFM: Light at the end of the tunnel? from Reclaim the Media LPFM bill poised for passage from Prometheus Radio [...]

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The American public may be forced to leave TV News behind

Today’s leaders are armed with powerful high-tech weaponry and the pervasive influence of government-friendly Hollywood executives and a highly partisan echo chamber. TV News needs to start doing better reporting on the effects of what has actually been done by politicians and other officials and stop spending so much time covering stories that perpetuate the [...]

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News you might have missed this weekend

What Obama should say in his State of the Union address TECHNOLOGY Why is the White House backing away from net neutrality? FCC delays new national broadband plan for another month ‘TV Everywhere’ takes even more public interest advocacy heat TASER’s new weapon: Mobile phone monitoring for parents POLITICS How the Teamsters beat Goldman Sachs, [...]

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Battle in Seattle: WTO protests 10 years later

Watch the documentary by Big Noise Films, This is What Democracy Looks Like: 10 years ago: Indymedia’s grassroots daily coverage from Reclaim the Media Battle in Seattle: 10 years after the WTO from Counterpunch Democracy Now: David Solnit, ‘The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle’ Bankers’ scheme to re-open worldwide finance casino [...]

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NEW PROJECT Read What I’m Reading

I get frustrated reading interesting news stories and then doing nothing with them. So partly to clean up my browsers full of tabs and mainly to try and encourage my friends (and strangers, too, I guess) to read more stories that matter I’m going to start blogging notes about the news I’m reading. These will [...]

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Save the News event energizes Denver

Reclaim the Media published my report on the IWantMyRocky.com and Free Press event in Denver last week. It was cool. Read all about it by clicking HERE.

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Amy Goodman interview on Listen Up NW

Executive Producer Yuko Kodama included a few questions from my extended Amy Goodman interview on the latest Listen Up NW show, distributed by Reclaim the Media. Amy Goodman is a host and producer of the daily news program Democracy Now. You can download or listen to my full interview with her by clicking HERE.

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DTV updates on Digital Crossroads

On Monday February 9, Digital Crossroads featured an interview with Reclaim the Media executive director Jonathan Lawson. Listen to the entire 30-minute show, hosted by Radio Active Gavin, by clicking HERE. The show airs live at 9pm MST on Boise Community Radio, which is streaming at RadioBoise.org 24 hours a day. Reclaim the Media has [...]

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World Premier: Digital Crossroads in Boise

LISTEN RIGHT NOW to the first Digital Crossroads recorded in the downtown Boise studio at Boise Community Radio. The show is now 29 minutes, and available here and on Pacifica’s Audioport every Friday after airing at 11 AM in the mountain time zone. Digital Crossroads is a radio program all about media literacy and media [...]

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In Minneapolis… Day 2

The second day, Friday, I was up pretty early helping out with Free Speech TV. I ran sound in their amazing and fancy satellite truck. The opening speakers represented a solid mix of viewpoints, with Yolanda Hippensteele, Josh Silver and Robert McChesney (all of Free Press) introducing Adriene Maree Brown from Ruckus Society (who was [...]

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In Minneapolis… DAY 1

The first day, Thursday, I spent quality travel time with Karen Toering of Reclaim the Media and Angela Ballantyne of UW Communication Studies. We arrived at the airport early in the morning, before the storms started kicking up. Then I caught up with Nathan James of Media and Democracy Coalition, who is live-blogging the conference. [...]

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New Video Goes Deeper

Check out this well-thought-out video created by 206 Zulu and Reclaim the Media in response to media coverage of the police-instigated riot after Dead Prez performed at Evergreen. Respect to Julie-C and everyone else working on this! -Radioactive Gavin

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Speaking For the People

dressed sharp, with sport coat, scarf, Merck Records hat and fresh sneaks -photos by James Brennaman January 30th I testified in front of the Washington state legislature. The House committee on Technology, Energy and Communications was considering House Joint Memorial 4028, a bill introduced by Representatives Bob Hasegawa and Deb Wallace, condemning the Federal Communications [...]

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