Tuesday, February 29, 2000
As a follow up to the previous story, today Wired News reports that AOL and Time Warner have signed a "memorandum of understanding" that they will open up access to T/W's broadband service so that customers will be able to use ISPs other than AOL.
A glimmer of light in an otherwise dark night, but we'll have to see how it pans out.
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Monday, February 28, 2000
Wired News reports that AOL Chairman Steve Case and Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin are to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to discuss the planned merger of these two companies.
I'm sure it's unlikely that there will be any truly challenging questions leveled at these two, especially regarding how the merger will affect the ability of individuals to use the 'net to broadcast their own content, instead of read Time Warner magazines and watch their TV shows on-line.
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Sunday, February 27, 2000
The Associated Press has a quick article on the House move to kill Low-Power FM before it even starts.
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Current Magazine, the journal of publc radio, has an article on the Pacifica stringers strike.
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Friday, February 25, 2000
Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley released a nice announcement of upcoming micropower and radio production seminars and activities in support of micropower and low-power radio. Click here to read the announcement OR go to the Free Radio Berkeley website.
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Jon Katz has posited an interesting question on Slashdot: "Would You Ever Read a Newspaper Again?" Interesting to me, since a shift to the 'net means the potential for more grassroots involvement and exposure--but what if you're just looking at CNN.com?
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John Anderson, editor of pirate/free radio at About.com has been really keeping on the case of the NAB-led movement to kill LPFM in Congress. Read his newest update on their Propaganda.
Click here to see the Hall of Shame for Illinois (ILL. reps who've signed on to this bill).
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Wednesday, February 23, 2000
The Feb. 20 edition of RFC, featuring Bill Taylor of the Primary Communications Project is available in mp3 format for listening and download at the A-Infos Radio Project.
Click here to go right to it.
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An e-mail I received reports that a Pacifica Strikers Press Conference is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 24 at, 12 noon at the Center for Constitutional Rights, 666 S. Broadway, NYC. Scheduled attendees include:Mimi Rosenberg, Attorney, Legal Aid Society; Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Ecology at NYU, Director of the Project on Media Ownership, Striking Pacifica Reporters and others.
Go to SavePacifica for more details.
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The FCC
approved Low-Power FM broadcasting for the U.S.
in late January. But John Anderson, the pirate/free radio editor
at About.com, reports that a piece of legislation in the House
called the "Broadcasting Preservation Act of 1999"
has 82 sponsors and threatens to kill LPFM before it starts.
Click here to
find out more.
Free lance
reporters for Pacifica
Network News (PNN) went on strike on Jan. 31, claiming
undue censorship on the part of the Pacifica
network. Read more about the strike at Save
Pacifica. Click
here to read what Pacifica says about the situation.
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