Month: September 2003
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Columbia Journalism Review Covers the “New Alternatives”
The article on alt. weeklies that I last blogged is part of a full-issue special report of the CJR on the New Alternatives. IMCistas have been buzzing away over the article on IMCs, entitled “Edging Away from Anarchy, Inside the Indymedia Collective, Passion vs. Pragmatism,” which for the most part manages not to misconstrue Indymedia…
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What’s So Alternative About Alternative Weeklies?
The Columbia Journalism Review’s Matt Welch takes the Alt. Weekly establishment to task after attending their annual convention: “The dull pieties of official progressivism is one of many attributes that show how modern alt weeklies have strayed from what made them alternative in the first place. The papers once embraced amateur writers; now they are…
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Last Minute Stay of Execution for Media Ownership Rules
A three justice panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia today blocked the implementation of the FCC’s new loosened media ownership rules, which were supposed to go into effect tomorrow. The block was prompted by the numerous legal challenges that have been mounted against the rules. The Court’s order said, “Given the…