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Month: June 2005

  • FRB’s Lawyer Wants FCC Held In Contempt of Court

    According to today’s Brattleboro Reformer, free radio brattleboro’s lawyer, James Maxwell plans to file a motion for the FCC to be held in contempt of court for Wednesday’s raid on the station. The article only hints around what justifies contempt in this case. I figure the reasoning will hinge on the fact that the FCC’s…

  • Capturing Public Broadcasting by Threat and Shady Gamesmanship

    Pre-P.S.: Just as I was finishing up this post, I learned that the House voted not to cut $100 million from the CPB. Is it coincidence that this happens within hours of the appointment of the new CPB CEO? I’m kind of immersed in the non-commercial radio world, at the intersection of public, community and…

  • Brattleboro Reformer on RFB Raid: Eyewitness Account, and Police Chief Distances His Force

    An article in today’s Brattleboro Reformer repeats most of the details contained in the station’s press release, but also has an eyewitness account of when the FCC and Federal Marshals hit the station early in the morning when it wasn’t staffed: Brooks House resident Joe Dever noticed something going on in rfb’s rented space Wednesday.…

  • Radio Free Brattleboro Raided Today

    I didn’t see this coming, since, as John pointed out, Radio Free Brattleboro’s case with the FCC is still pending in court, and the Feds only recently asked for a summary judgement. In fact, last year, the judge in the case ruled against the FCC’s request for an injunction to shut down the station while…

  • zine #3 is ready to go

    Last night I assembled and stapled mediageek zine #3, just in time to haul it out to the AMC today. I’m pretty happy with it, and it features the new mediageek logo, that you can see up on top of the homepage. Articles include an analysis of the Christian translator scandal by John Anderson, a…

  • On Fridays Radioshow: Jason Scott Is Now Shipping His BBS Documentary

    On this Friday’s mediageek radioshow, I’ll be talking to Jason Scott of Textfiles.com, whose recently completed BBS Documentary is now shipping. We’ll talk about how he put this 3-DVD project together, and why he chose to release the DVDs without copy protection and under a Creative Commons share-alike license. The radioshow airs Fridays at 5:30…

  • That’s It, In a Nutshell

    Per Slate’s In Other Magazines, Reason’s Matt Welch writes that the big media companies are jumping on the blogwagon because they’re “history’s cheapest publishing system in the world’s cheapest distribution system.” Not magic, just cheap and simple. That’s what I was trying to say several years ago when I more actively took up the “what’s…

  • News Headlines from June 10 Radioshow: House Republicans Mounting Assaults on Public Broadcasting and Municipal Broadband; State Dept. Hack In Line for CPB CEO

    These are the news headlines as read on the June 10, 2005 edition of the mediageek radioshow: House Republicans Mounting Assaults on Public Broadcasting and Municipal Broadband; State Dept. Hack In Line for CPB CEO.

  • Gearing Up for AMC

    Allied Media Conference is this weekend, and in usual mediageek style, I’m rushing to get zine #3 into print right now. Someday, I may release more than one zine per year… someday. My pal John at DIYmedia.net is doing a session on microradio and I’m doing a session on blogging. My focus is not on…

  • Supremes Decline Review of Media Ownership Rules

    This morning the Supreme Court decided not to hear the media conglomerates’ challenge to the Third Circuit Court’s decision to strike down the FCC’s loosened media ownership rules. The Court ruled without comment, but I can’t help think the fact that the FCC and Justice Dept. decided not to pursue the challenge was a contributing…