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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing Media NEWS articles 1 through 55 of 55.
- The administration of President George W. Bush broke the law as it resorted to illegal "covert propaganda" in trying to sell its key education initiative to the public, US congressional investigators have found. - Google not only gathers vast amounts of personal data, it aspires to global domination - and that's creepy...
- Canada's public broadcaster CBC has reached a tentative deal with its biggest union to end a long-running lockout affecting 5,500 employees. - Peer-to-peer file-sharing companies in the U.S. will cease to exist in their current forms over the next few months, the president of MetaMachine, the company responsible for the eDonkey software, predicts. - Google Inc. wants to connect all of San Francisco to the Internet with a free wireless service, creating a springboard for the online search engine leader to leap into the telecommunications industry.
- As evolution, driven by such events, shifts out of scientific realms and into political and legal ones, it ceases to be covered by context-oriented science reporters and is instead bounced to political pages, opinion pages, and television news. And all these venues, in their various ways, tend to deemphasize the strong scientific case in favor of evolution and instead lend credence to the notion that a growing “controversy” exists over evolutionary science. This notion may be politically convenient, but it is false. - Chinese authorities have shut down an online discussion forum that reported on anti-corruption protests in a village in the country's south as well as a Web site serving ethnic Mongolians, overseas monitors said Tuesday.
- Nationwide blackout a clear attempt to shut down free speech - MSNBC correspondent David Shuster says his critical reporting about the Bush administration wouldn't have been welcome at his former employer, the Fox News Channel. - After Italy passed a new antiterrorism package in July, authorities ordered managers offering public communications services to make passport photocopies of every customer seeking to use the Internet, phone, or fax. - ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, who died of lung cancer in August, left an estate valued at more than $50 million, most of which was willed to his fourth wife and to two children from a previous marriage.
- Weblogs Inc., home to such notable blogs as Autoblog, Engadget, and The Unofficial Apple Blog (TUAW) has been purchased by AOL for an undisclosed sum. - After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments
- The charges come a week after his site made national news and launched a Pentagon investigation into how war zone photos of charred and dismembered bodies described as victims of U.S. attacks could have surfaced.
- The FBI has suceeded in closing me down.
- This study has found that censorship of the Internet is commonplace in most regions of the world. It is clear that in most countries over the past two years there has been an acceleration of efforts to either close down or inhibit the Internet. - Even though peering has ended and links remain severed, the peering agreement was not violated by either side. The dispute pits a restructured, low-debt Ethernet provider against a more traditional, debt laden provider in a fight that's unlikely to end soon. - Watching TV may damage children's brain development, leading to increased anti-social behaviour, new research claims.
- China's ubiquitous e-police are using the Web themselves to shape political discourse. - Much has been said about what is and is not being reported in Iraq, but one thing is clear: Local, front-line journalists are not only risking their lives, they are risking imprisonment for their work.
- In a story (and I do mean story) "Is 'American Hiroshima' set for this month?" Williams tries to crank up the fear and loathing index one more notch, writing "The next terrorist attack on the United States – a "nuclear hell storm planned for seven major cities" – is set to occur this month." - The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom, says a study. - Did a reporter with GOP ties suppress a story that could have cost Bush the White House?
- "AOL works "closely with the DHS" to supply information on any AOL customer and allows agents from these entities "free and unfettered" access to AOL Hq at Dulles, VA for the purpose of "watching over and keeping surveillance" on the millions of AOL customers..." - Microsoft and Yahoo are linking up their free instant messaging services, giving the two extra muscle to compete against market leader AOL.
- Surprisingly, one beautiful, white, American woman murdered by a madman went mostly unreported by our watchdog mainstream media. Maybe because Rachel Corrie got killed--crushed to death--by an Israeli soldier representing the power of the state. - At issue is the role of the US government in overseeing the internet's address structure, called the domain name system (DNS), which enables communication between the world's computers. - The investigative arm of Congress has found that parts of a Bush administration video explaining changes to Medicare violate the government ban on publicity and propaganda. - Its nice to know that one small Washington-based editor and reporter merits a National Security Letter or a court order for a wiretap.
- None of the reports of recent terror attacks against tourists in Bali mentioned the fact that near the major hotels were the mass graves of some of an estimated 80,000 people killed by mobs orchestrated by Suharto and backed by the American and British governments.
- Standard Operating Propaganda Procedures - Homeland Security, following most other branches of the military, has hired a Hollywood liaison to work with moviemakers and scriptwriters. Script approval can mean access to military facilities, equipment, and personnel, saving producers millions of dollars simply by tweaking their scripts to serve a right-wing political agenda.
- President Bush Teleconference With U.S. Troops Was Choreographed to Match His Goals for Iraq War - The OpenNet study suggests that Myanmar, which has long been under American sanctions, including the 2003 Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act, has recently migrated from an open-source filtering technology to a proprietary system called Fortiguard, developed by Fortinet, in Sunnyvale, Calif.
- Nine-Second Coverage For Dozens of Dead Iraqi Women and Children - Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller acted as a "middleman" between an American military unit and the Iraqi National Congress while she was embedded with the U.S. armed forces searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in April 2003, and "took custody" of Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, one of 55 most wanted Iraqis...
- The television addict has lost the ability to think independently, and even the casual viewer looks for little more than entertainment. The news programs that once informed the public have therefor been reduced to that level, providing coverage of fascinating but inane trivia that have no relevance to public policy. - Municipal WiFi networks, such as the one Google is proposing, could easily keep records on where users are connecting, and it's easy to imagine ways that information could be misused.
- ...national security elite, including then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush, viewed the post-Vietnam journalism as a threat to America’s ability to strike at its perceived enemies around the world. - A recent government order mandating that voice over internet protocol services must include the same government-approved wiretapping capabilities as traditional phone companies threatens to cripple peer-to-peer telephone innovation, according to new warnings from civil liberties groups and an internet telephony pioneer. - Fox News Channel's political agenda is coming to a local television station near you. GOP operative and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, the architect of the right-wing dominance of cable news, is now remaking 35 local television stations -- broadcasting to nearly 40 percent of America’s homes -- in Fox News Channel’s image. Currently, the worst of the ranting radicals like O'Reilly and Hannity are on Fox's cable channel. This would bring them to the airwaves.
- A quarter of a century ago, conservative Republicans captured the White House. Today, a more extreme incarnation of the GOP’s right wing has a firm grip on the executive branch. None of it would have been possible without a largely deferential press corps.
- The head of Canada's eavesdropping agency says it needs to own the Internet to combat terrorism. - For Coulter, calling for the destruction of the First Amendment comes easily, as it does for all authoritarians and fascists.
- The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications. - Nation's openness sinking after Sept. 11, northern Europe tops the list
- In many places a bullet is the cheapest and most effective form of censorship. It removes permanently the pesky reporter and intimidates his or her colleagues into silence or flight. - In a serious attack on democratic rights, the US government has greatly increased the scope of legislation introduced in 1994, regarding the electronic monitoring of telecommunications providers.
- ...the new boss of CBS News, Sean McManus, donated $250 to the Bush-Cheney re-election bid in 2004, while shunning John Kerry.
- America Online Inc. hired Mary Cheney, the 36-year-old daughter of Vice President Cheney, to offer advice on building up Web site businesses, a company spokesman said yesterday. - AOL has been since its inception an operating entity of the US intelligence apparatus.
- With inattentiveness of the corporate media and non-presence of the left-wing media, the American public continues to suffer from news neglect. We have 24 hours of news availability on hundreds of television stations in hundreds of markets, but we do not get our necessary ration of truth and facts to allow our democracy to stay healthy. When the government and the complicit media completely control the content of the news, the public only hears what it is supposed to hear, and this favors the status quo, not the real public interest. - Woodward is so deeply embedded with Bush, Cheney, Rove and the rest of the gang that their interests are now completely his. All of his books, all his past and future reporting, should be read in that light.
- In 1986, Williams "joined the Washington, DC staff of then Congressman Dick Cheney as press secretary and a legislative assistant.
- If you've had your cell phone on while driving around Baltimore over the past six months, you've probably been part of an experiment.
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