on friday’s mediageek radio show: indy/grassroots media news update, an interview with two volunteers from Champaign-Urbana’s new Spanish-language newspaper El Informador, and a review of Robert Rodriguez’s journal cum book documenting his journey from scrappy indie filmmaker to Hollywood sensation, Rebel Without a Crew. The mediageek radio show airs Fridays 5:30 PM on community radio […]
Archive | March, 2002
LA Weekly Socks It to KPFK and Pacifica; I’m Left Wincing
LA Weekly Socks It to KPFK and Pacifica; I’m Left Wincing Reading this article — “Family Feud; The left eats its own at KPFK” — made me wince many times… out of sympathy… out of recognition… at times kind of like watching a bad sit-com where a poorly cliched “comedy of errors” is about to […]
Medialife Magazine interviews an Angel
Medialife Magazine interviews an Angel of the Public Interest for the benefit of the industry. A choice nugget: Medialife: What do you say to the anti-regulatory argument that the profusion of new channels of media made possible by satellite TV, digital cable and the internet makes old ownership restrictions obsolete? Angel: I think the same […]
Mediachannel features this short essay
Mediachannel features this short essay by community-TV pioneer DeeDee Halleck: “Why We Need Community Media”
The Angels Descended on the FCC to Protest for the Public Interest
There’s a bunch of Indymedia coverage of Friday’s protests in front of the FCC: DC Indymedia has this article: “Public Interest Angels Descend on FCC,” by John Tarleton Video: Cheerleader Ken’s Critical Media Analysis, by jonathan A compendium of links to other articles, videos and audio. Video: Jennifer Pozner Talks about Feminist Media @ Media […]