Moyers vs. Murdoch: Journalism vs. Megalomania
The O'Reilly ambush is typical cable news entertainment-posing-as- journalism whose purpose is to sell eyeballs to advertisers, not to inform citizens or better society.
The O'Reilly ambush is typical cable news entertainment-posing-as- journalism whose purpose is to sell eyeballs to advertisers, not to inform citizens or better society.
Marvin Kitman | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
Whenever Murdoch is depressed, my studies over the years as a media pathologist find, he has what he calls "an expansionist lunge." And when he's in one of them he can't be outbid.
AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 12.25.2007 | Media
The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ow...
Russell Shaw | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media
In most metro areas -- especially the 20 largest metro areas where the relaxed restrictions would apply -- we have lots of diverse voices.
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media
The last thing this country needs after the FCC allows the traditional media to consolidate is for the to let the telephone and cable companies exercise proprietary control over the Internet.
Lauren Rich Fine | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
The proposed changes were so diluted relative to an outright repeal of the ban on cross ownership that it was hard for me to imagine that anyone thought it would materially or even modestly change the landscape.
Josh Silver | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
Witness yet another shining moment: the Bush administration serving up a wholesale giveaway to the largest media corporations in the most corrupt process imaginable.
Marvin Kitman | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
The last thing in the world an FCC commissioner has time to do is actually look at what they are supposed to be by law regulating. They are too busy being wined and dined at industry events.
Andrew Slack | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media
The Harry Potter Alliance put out "Rocking Out Against VoldeMedia," which is aimed at building awareness and action against FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's current rush to gut media consolidation rules.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media
Chairman Martin and the other Republican corporate puppets on the FCC want to destroy localism in order to save it. The citizens of this nation, along with the Congress, have had enough of media consolidation.
Stephen Lendman | ZNet | Posted 12.14.2007 | Home
On October 17, FCC chairman Kevin Martin proposed lifting the 1975 media cross-ownership rule that forbids a company from owning a newspaper and telev...
Josh Silver | Posted 12.13.2007 | Media
Today in the Congress, senators berated FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about his plans to open the floodgates of media consolidation. And Martin didn't flinch.
Timothy Karr | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Allowing one company to own broadcast station and a major daily newspaper in the same market is so unpopular that one wonders what really motivates FCC chair Kevin Martin to defy common sense.
Craig Aaron | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media
The FCC could have issued a single temporary waiver while it sorts out the rules governing newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership everywhere. But the FCC's maneuver is far more complicated -- and devious.
Timothy Karr | Posted 11.27.2007 | Media
Why does FCC Chairman Kevin Martin remain determined to turn a blind eye to the public opposition to unchecked consolidation?
Financial Times | Stephanie Kirchgaessner | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to rein in Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who is seeking to expa...
Lauren Rich Fine | Posted 11.16.2007 | Media
Newspapers economic challenges have more to do with the Internet and the loss of classified ads than competition from other media.
Eric Deggans | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media
Now it seems obvious how Martin was going to try slipping more media consolidation past a public steadfastly opposed to it.
New York Times | Kevin Martin | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media
In many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those news...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media
The FCC Chairman has taken to the op-ed page of the New York Times to propose that big-city papers should now be permitted to purchase a television or radio station in their market.
Carol Jenkins | Posted 10.19.2007 | Media
The proposed Federal Communications Commission rules do nothing to include women and minorities, and until they do, should be opposed.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.18.2007 | Media
Unless the Dems aggressively reform the corporate media, the crucial debates on the key issues will continue to be slanted, skewed, and distorted.
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Josh Silver | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media