Archive for May, 2005
Monday, May 23rd, 2005
I received an interesting mail today about digital television that highlights the manner in which digital broadcasters are neglecting the public interest. The release, which I include below, comes from the Media Policy Program of the Campaign Legal Center and is tied to a campaign to pressure congress to ensure ...
Posted in Corporate media | Comments Off on DTV and the public interest
Saturday, May 21st, 2005
The BCI has launched the final stage of the Community Radio Support Scheme for this funding year. There's €25,000 available with applications due by 20th June. According to the press release:This round is focused on individual station development. The stations can apply for funding for internal and external evaluation and ...
Posted in Radio | Comments Off on Support for Irish community radio
Saturday, May 21st, 2005
As many of my Urbana-based readers (and even you Champaign people) will know I'm involved with a group that's starting a new (licensed) radio station shortly - WRFU FM. I'm pulling together a group to work on a media analysis show. We hope to cover more than just the U.S. ...
Posted in Alternative Media | 2 Comments »
Saturday, May 21st, 2005
"These programmes touch a raw nerve", said the RTUK's head, Fatih Karaca, in support of the closures. "They discuss family, children, marital relations - sensitive topics to Turks - in an indecently open way."If you're interested in the public/private sphere division, women's rights or the role of talk shows in ...
Posted in Corporate media, Freedom of the press, Income and poverty, International Affairs, Society and culture | Comments Off on Women’s rights in Turkey
Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Given that I understand Saddam to be in the custody of the coalition authorities, which includes the UK, does the UK have a legal duty to prevent the publication of photographs of Saddam? That is, does the requirement that a prisoner not be exposed to ridicule cover not only the ...
Posted in International law and structures | Comments Off on Saddam, Geneva and the UK
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Via IFEX:As reports trickle in about the indiscriminate killing last weekend of hundreds of protesters in Uzbekistan's northeastern city of Andijan, IFEX members say authorities are maintaining an information blockade by expelling journalists from the town and obstructing foreign television news broadcasts.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports several incidents ...
Posted in Freedom of the press | Comments Off on IFEX on Uzbekistan and the press
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
Those who don't obsessively check funferal stories for comments may have missed a comment on my post about the cost of military flyovers that pointed to this Indymedia article. It reports revelations in Village magazine about some interesting share dealings:According to the current issue of Village Magazine (p17) our Minister ...
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on O’Dea is war profiteer
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
Over at the Tuppenceworth blog Simon has posted a thoughtful and important piece about pending 'security precautions' at the Four Courts in Dublin:The front door to the Four Courts is the symbol of the public's access to justice. It is the physical manifestation of the means by which the citizens ...
Posted in Freedom of the press, Political activism, Prisons and crime, Society and culture | 1 Comment »
Sunday, May 15th, 2005
I rarely watch network news. I generally use television for entertainment and it rarely occurs to me to browse by the news channels.
The only real exception is when I'm in a hotel, where the news channels tend to outnumber the others. The problem is that news channels also tend to ...
Posted in Corporate media, International Affairs | Comments Off on (Lack of) coverage of Uzbekistan
Saturday, May 14th, 2005
There's a strange piece in EU Observer today about a controversial passage in a speech by EU Communication Commissioner Margot Wallström:In the original version, Commissioner Wallström was to say "Yet there are those today who want to scrap the supranational idea. They want the European Union to go back to ...
Posted in International law and structures | Comments Off on EU commissioner in constitution/holocaust controversy