Media indifference – The myth of a free press

Russia Today interviews Casey Rae-Hunter on Comcast FCC decision

Scott Horton interviews Dahr Jamail about WikiLeaks video from Antiwar Radio

Iraq killings are media indifference from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

Accountability Movement: Leading journalists expose the myth of a free press

Free community papers supporting net neutrality from Editor & Publisher

Malkia Cyril on the civil rights struggle for a free, open Internet

How to close the digital divide? Fund public libraries from Ed Week

NPR is making Rumsfeld look like a techie by comparison

Raw footage reveals O’Keefe lied about ACORN tapes

This week in comically evil corporate behavior from Grist

Lawsuit: Chiquita fruit company ‘funded death squads’ in Colombia

Actually, Governor, human bondage is ‘significant’ by John Nichols

Tom Hayden’s withdrawal plan for Afghanistan from The Nation

Why even the childless should care about school lunch from Grist

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Collateral murder in Iraq – Fighting for net neutrality

Collateral murder in Iraq by Amy Goodman

Fox continues CBS, ABC, CNN propaganda to attack Iran from Project Censored

Ray McGovern’s letter to Robert Parry on Daniel Ellsberg

University paper battles restrictive media policy from SPLC

Apologist says now isn’t ‘right time’ for cracking down on unpaid internships

Comcast court victory a major setback to net neutrality efforts

Andrew Romanoff: Fighting for net neutrality from Huffington Post

Common Cause blasts net neutrality decision

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New hybrids – Bibles in schools – O’Keefe the pimp

New 'Vehicle-to-Grid' hybrid

Get paid $30/hr to drive new ‘Vehicle-to-Grid’ hybrid car

TOP STORIES

Bible classes for public schools in Kentucky from Raw Story

Wall Street’s bailout hustle by Matt Taibbi

Powell rebukes Cheney, America is not ‘less safe’ because of Obama

ACLU calls on UN human rights official to stop teen’s torture in prison

INVESTIGATIVE NEWS

Congress launches investigation into gas drilling practices from ProPublica

Secret history of hostage crisis, Iraqi invasion goes with Haig to the grave

Yoo said Bush could slaughter civilians by Jason Leopold

Rep. Conyers responds: Hearings on torture lawyers coming soon

SPIN THE GLOBE

Dutch government totally collapses over Afghan military mission

Mud torrent kills at least 40 islanders in Portugal

Greece hires Goldman banker as debt chief from Business Week

Israel aims to restore holy sites in occupied West Bank

MEDIA ANALYSIS

In defense of cigarette marketing from True Slant

NBC, ABC reports on new nuclear facility leave key questions unasked from FAIR

AWOL on Comcast/NBC merger: Olbermann, Maddow, Schultz

Air America lessons: Benefactors differ by David Sirota

JAMES ‘CONSERVATIVE PIMP’ O’KEEFE

ACORN story a ‘punking’ of America from Hullabaloo

O’Keefe and the myth of the ACORN pimp from Media Matters

NYT editor ‘stands behind’ contested ‘pimp’ reporting from Brad Blog

O’Keefe given rock star treatment ‘like Chuck Norris’ at CPAC

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How could anyone want these guys to get more powerful?

CEOs Roberts & Zucker: Nothing but the truth, huh?

MEDIA CONSOLIDATION & THE PUBLIC INTEREST

House effort urges DOJ & FCC to block Comcast acquisition of NBC-U

Netflix warns Comcast-NBC merger could hurt open Internet

Public interest groups warn Comcast takeover is anticompetitive

Comcast-NBC merger no sure thing from Stop Big Media

TOP STORIES

Will George W Bush be next to appear before UK’s Iraq Inquiry?

Dave Zirin talks Super Bowl politics from Democracy Now

Paul Krugman covers the ‘hold’ strategy employed by US Senators

Demand Media: The future of content, cheap and plentiful

GREEN ACTIVISM & LOCAL ECONOMIES

No oil company will know peace in the creeks of Nigeria

Globalization kills, return to local economies by Thom Hartmann

Incentives to going ‘off grid’ bring power to the people

4 stories that should have changed the media narrative, but didn’t

FOLLOW THE MONEY

In a message to Dems, Wall St. sends cash to GOP

Wealthy CEOs conspire to influence elections for GOP

NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo takes on Bank of America fraud

ACORN smear conspirator wants tax-deductible donations to her legal fund

SARAH PALIN & THE TEA PARTY

Tea Party represents ‘innate racism’ says Meghan McCain

Speech was all boilerplate non-sequiturs & cognitive disconnections

Raw Story debunks Palin’s claims in speech by Sahil Kapur

Last Word: Palin has delusions of grandeur by Mike Lupica

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Franken calls out Comcast, NBC caught lying to Congress

Sen. Franken rips into Comcast CEO by Josh Silver

Franken makes CEO look like a tool from Consumerist

CEO argues rules protect customers, lawyers argue rules unconstitutional

Jeff Zucker lies to Congress from TechDirt

NBC caught lying to Congress from Public Knowledge

Boxee responds to Jeff Zucker to set the record straight

Op-ed: Don’t let Comcast & NBC merge into a conglomerate

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State of the corporate union, Magical Mystery Chambers

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TOP STORIES

Candidate Obama criticized McCain’s spending freeze idea by Sahil Kapur

Paul Krugman: Obama spending freeze ‘appalling on every level’

Comcast, I surrender from Tech Crunch

CEO of nonprofit Center for Missing & Exploited Children paid $1.3M salary

JOURNALISM BUSINESS

Arianna Huffington’s journalism charity helps nobody but herself from Gawker

Guardian UK editor hits back: Paywalls risk ‘sleepwalk into oblivion’

3 arrested for attempted Sen. Landrieu bugging have campus newspaper past

Op-Ed: Err-America didn’t respect its listeners enough from Truthout

MEDIA CULTURE

Ron Reagan cancels his show from Blather Watch

A look at the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger from Future of Music Coalition

How to thrive as a musician without suing your fans from EFF

Beatles meet Wu-Tang Clan in ‘Magical Mystery Chambers’ free download

POLITICAL MAYHEM

Under fire, Rahm Emanuel calls liberal strategy ‘fucking retarded’ from Raw Story

Man who blew whistle on Abramoff tells how he did it from The Hill

Op-Ed: Freedom vs. the public option by George Lakoff

Canaries in the coal mine from Daily Kos

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Say goodbye to free online TV

Comcast killing free online TV?

TV Everywhere? Say goodbye to free online TV by Josh Silver

Entire staff quits after Congress-member defects to GOP from Raw Story

Amanda Simpson is Obama’s 1st transgender appointment from Air America

Tip the balance in favor of family farms & good food by John Nichols

Civil rights hero caught in corruption probe to begin serving from CNN

Editor defends Politico’s Cheney coverage from Huffington Post

Beyonce under fire for throwing concert for Qaddafi son from Prefix Mag

Scott Horton interviews: Sibel Edmonds & Cindy Sheehan from Antiwar Radio

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Guest appearance on community radio KAOS

Broadband, consolidation and neutrality are my subjects this evening on Olympia’s community radio station KAOS. In order of their attribution on the show, here are the links to my sources from tonight’s 30 minutes. Stream or download the archived show by CLICKING HERE.

Broadband money begins to flow from Broadband Breakfast

The Killer App of 1900 by Glenn Fleishman on Publicola, Seattle’s News Elixir

Research shows doubts about effect of stimulus by Matt Lasar from Ars Technica

McDonalds launching free WiFi by David Coursey from PC World

Google is providing free WiFi at 47 US airports

MuniWireless coverage of first grant winners announcement

Broadband report on stimulus grant winners from Scribd

Rural broadband grants will help America compete by Ben Scott, Free Press

Measure results of $7.2b broadband funds by Charles Benton & Kate Williams

Obama: Cash vs. Principles by Kim Hart from The Hill

Why FCC should stop Comcast from buying NBC by David Coursey from PC World

Don’t let Telecom segregate the Internet by Malkia Cyril, Chris Rabb & Joe Torres

FCC questions Comcast-GE venture by David Goetzl from Media Post

Comcast’s voluntary public interest commitments from Bloomberg

Exposing Comcast’s hollow ‘Public Interest’ commitments from Free Press

Where does Comcast/NBCU rate on ‘Trade Association Scale”? by Harold Feld

PEG Channels’ New Best Friend by Bunnie Riedel, for Multichannel News

Broadband in yo face (AUDIO) from MAG-NET

Majority of minorities not using Internet from Internet Innovation

LPFM: Out of the House, into the Senate by Candace Clement

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Round-up of global protests, Tech headlines

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Andy Worthington: The human cost of Guantanamo from Truthout

TOP 4
Supreme Court tosses out ruling to release torture photos

Spitzer on Democracy Now: Geithner, Bernanke ‘complicit’

Dubya and Blair ‘misled public’ ‘could end up on trial’

New white house press pool rotation sparks debate from Politico

PROTESTS AROUND THE GLOBE

20,000 climate activists march through London

Tens of thousands march against Silvio Berlusconi in Rome

Martial law returns ahead of rebellion in Philippines

Arrests mark Greek riot anniversary

Iran bans foreign media, Cut Tehran web access as student rally nears

Zelaya supporters end 5 months of daily protests in Honduras

Gaza Freedom March less than one month away

U of Wisconsin protesters want Karl Rove on trial

TECHNOLOGY HEADLINES

Ode to books, why e-books will never replace them from Geek Dad

Administration fears public scrutiny would scuttle IP treaty talks

ALA submits comments on FCC broadband plan

PEG channels’ new best friend: Comcast? from Multichannel News

Comcast NBC: Donor interests vs. key Obama principles

Comcast rated 10 on Harold Feld’s association scale

The rise and fall of MySpace from Financial Times

TV exec upset daughter wants no TV at college from Techdirt

The myth of broadband hogs

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America’s regression, Consolidation, Wars

Consolidation: Comcast buying NBC Universal

TOP 4

America’s regression by Glenn Greenwald

Liberal Dems take aim at war funding

‘The war is in Pakistan right now‘ says Jeremy Scahill

Editors reporting to sales managers at Dallas newspaper

AMERICA’S BIGGEST CABLE CO. WANTS MORE POWER

Why the FCC should stop Comcast NBC from PC World

Commissioner Copps on merger: ‘They face a steep climb with me‘

Congress to scrutinize Comcast NBC deal from The Hill

Comcast’s hollow ‘public interest’ claims from Free Press

MORE NEWS HEADLINES

Grist explains Copenhagen climate summit to comedian Eugene Mirman

Rachel Maddow rips Sen. McConnell war stimulus ‘nonsense’

Sen. Bernie Sanders offers Medicare-for-all amendment

Fourth senator joins move to block Fed Chairman Bernanke

David Ogden, No. 2 Justice Dept official, resigning

Mobile broadband consumption creating problems by Tricia Duryee

Ted Haggard 2.0 by Wendy Norris

VIEWPOINTS

7 ways Battle of Seattle changed the world by Fran Korten

Matt Taibbi: Obama sold out to Wall St

10 progressive reactions to Obama’s Afghan plan from Alternet

We need a clean vote on Afghanistan policy from Common Dreams

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Stop the Comcast NBC merger!

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Click here to go to the Free Press action page. Click here to read more first.

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Cobra subsidies expiring, Dubya ‘Let Bin Laden get away’

Cobra subsidies begin expiring for the unemployed from LA Times

GE pact with Vivendi clears way for sale of NBC to Comcast

TV in 10 years will know what shows we like, what music to offer from RAIN

Ron Paul gains mainstream steam from Politico

FBI viewed intel from ultra-right radio host as ‘irreplaceable’

Google and News Corp do need each other from NY Times

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Opposition research, Students jailed, Bill Moyers retiring

Air America reporter Ana Marie Cox on opposition research journalism

Students held in jail overnight without food in tuition hike protest

Bill Moyers leaving weekly TV again, for good, in 2010

Spain mandates affordable broadband for all from CNET

Seattle Times Editorial: Block NBC/Comcast deal

Obama airs Cuba views in interview with dissident blogger

Suit accuses Hartford Courant of plagiarism

NY Mets and the business of terrorism from Electronic Intifada

Obama interview draws attention to China’s heavy hand

Bing censors Chinese-language searches outside China

PBS ombudsman: What’s not on the air

Andrew Breitbart trying to blackmail Dems with ACORN tapes?

Florida jury awards ex-smoker $300m from Phillip Morris

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Friday the 13th

Ralph Nader by Stephen C Webster

Greens, independents want Nader to challenge Senator Dodd in Connecticut

Groups mount proactive counterattack to Comcast buying NBC

Blogging booms worldwide, repression at its heels from Newsdesk

Dubya feared successor might revoke telecom spy immunity from Wired

Tony Blair to face British Iraq Inquiry committee in January

Lessons from the land of cheap broadband from CNN Money

Obama picks pesticide lobbyist for agriculture trade post

NPR still hasn’t discovered the housing bubble from American Prospect

Copenhagen: Seattle grows up by Naomi Klein

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Weekend news wrap-up

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7 of the most inspiring videos on the web from Mashable

Low-Power radio and what the media won’t tell you

Cuban bloggers abducted and beaten from CPJ

Comcast-NBC deal: Equivalent of Godzilla swallowing 30 Rock

Child protection or censorship in Kentucky?

Media Democracy Day: Independent media’s moment

Hillary’s dope deal from At Largely

Colorado lawmakers ready bills to curb medical marijuana

Solutions in search of a medical marijuana problem

Jayson Blair address Journalism Ethics Institute

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Saturday evening reading

Clean up Ecuador campaign

Campaign for Chevron justice in Ecuador

Dems strip single-payer proposal from health care overhaul

Crowdsourcing AT&T’s anti-net neutrality campaign by Art Brodsky

US Chamber shuts off TheYesMen.org and 400 other activist sites

White House, Senate agree on media shield law; Vote likely Nov. 5th

Questions surrounding Dobbs’ gunfire incident cast doubt on CNN credibility

Haitian Prime Minister fired by Senate from Media Hacker

Yes, journalists deserve subsidies too by Bob McChesney & John Nichols

What women really want from Save the Internet

Obama: Send condolence letters to parents of soldier suicides by Amy Goodman

Leaked: Dozens of members of Congress under investigation

ACORN scandal: Conservatives’ 25-year goal of de-funding the left revealed

News Hunt ‘bad journalism’ results

Netflix accused of hurting Hollywood’s profits from Public Knowledge

Comcast, GE deal getting closer

Online focus is working for CS Monitor from Poynter

NY Times’ coming Jihad against HuffPo

CNN now in horse race with HuffPo and Daily Beast

Colorado Court of Appeals: Caregivers must do more than just grow marijuana

Telco-funded Phoenix Center flip flops on net neutrality

2010 SXSW Interactive panels announced

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Monday Night News

Free Press supports FCC in case against Comcast

Cloud computing: IBM corporate email undercuts Google

Local radio is a grassroots effort for California LPFM

America’s PR revolution: Outraged denial by David Sirota

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