Archive | July, 2001

The Local Impact of an FCC Deal

The Local Impact of an FCC Deal Yesterday I wrote a short commentary for our local Indymedia site where I try to assess the potential local impact of the News Corp. decision by the FCC, with specific regard to my hometowns of Champaign-Urbana, IL. If that sort of thing interests you, give it a read, […]

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Stay Underground

Stay Underground I stumbled upon this near-manifesto about ‘zines called “Fuck quirky; Zines are dead, long live zines,” by Jim Munroe, on the Mass Culture website. It’s a good analysis about how at its height mainstream media coverage of the ‘zine movement focused on the safe, quirky zines and publishers–typically cute girls and safe white […]

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MSNBC publishes this article that

MSNBC publishes this article that is critical of the recent FCC decisions under Chairman Powell. Writer Eric Alterman, who also writes for the Nation, says of the News Corp. deal that “Powell, like Murdoch, is being more than disingenuous,” in his claims that the new triopoly (two TV stations and a newspaper) will not threaten […]

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Lighting-fast Deregulation and Consolidation: FCC Approves Fox/News Purchase of Additional NYC TV Station

Lighting-fast Deregulation and Consolidation: FCC Approves Fox/News Purchase of Additional NYC TV Station As the New York Times reports, the FCC approved, with commissioner votes cutting entirely down party lines, News Corp.’s purchase of Chris-Craft, which includes many more TV stations, most notably another TV station in the New York City market, where News already […]

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Comments Anyone?

Comments Anyone? I just put this little java app called Reblogger on the page which allows you folks to comment on any of the posts and read any of those comments. Just click the [post/view comments] link at the bottom of each post. I saw it in use on boingboing and thought maybe a little […]

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