Archive | January, 2002

Attacking the Nation’s Largest Radio Giant Attorneys for M&M Broadcasting have filed a petition with the FCC urging the commission to investigate the business practices of Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio owner, with 460 stations. The petitions allege that Clear Channel “uses front companies to buy and hold radio stations for itself until the […]

Study Says TV News Is “Pro-[Bush] Administration” — We Need Indymedia TV! Despite the mainstream media’s current love-affair with the accusation of its liberal bias, Electronic Media reports that a new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that, unsurprisingly, TV News especially is less likely to challenge the gov’t than print media. […]

Interview with RaisetheFist.com’s former webmaster, Sherman, at the Urbana IMC.

San Francisco Indymedia has confirmed the FBI raid on RaisetheFist.com: INFORMATION OBTAINED BY SF INDYMEDIA FROM LOS ANGELES FBI FIELD OFFICE On Thursday, January 24th, around 4pm, the Los Angeles FBI served a search warrant to the owner of raisethefist.com. The search warrant was based on charges around “computer fraud and abuse” as well as […]

Federal and Police Raid Independent Journalist Reports have shown up on Indymedia that the home of the founder of RaiseTheFist.com, an anarchist web site, was raided by the FBI, Secret Service and LA Police on Wed., Jan. 23. According to the first story posted: Heavily armed with high-powered machine guns, shot guns, and hand guns, […]