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Trumix.com listings available of Media Minutes Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Media Minutes: May 9, 2008 The Media Giraffe Project encourages sustainable and innovative ways of using media to foster participatory democracy and community. And the House held a hearing this week on the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 2, 2008 FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced the agency will craft a new plan for a national public safety network. And the Senate Commerce Committee passed a legislative veto of the FCC’s new media ownership rules as Rupert Murdoch prepared to bid for a third New York newspaper. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 25, 2008 The New York Times uncovers a large, coordinated Pentagon scheme to sell the occupation of Iraq to the American public via a network of retired military officers acting as “analysts” and “experts.” And Net Neutrality takes center stage at both Congress and the FCC. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 18, 2008 One big problem with the outcome of the 700 MHz auction: Giant telecom companies Verizon and AT&T were the big winners while women and minority businesses were squeezed out. And guest commentator Craig Aaron explains why Comcast should be voted America’s worst company. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 11, 2008 At BroadbandCensus.com, you can find out about broadband providers in your area, see what your broadband speed actually is, and help create a nationwide census on broadband information that big media companies don’t want you to know. And Community Television of Santa Cruz plugs public access TV with an entertaining new promotional video. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 4, 2008 Public pressure may have forced Comcast to work with BitTorrent on finding ways to distribute large Internet files, but their collaboration is no substitute for actual policy that would keep the Internet open. And 25 rural Vermont towns have joined in a regional effort to bring high-speed fiber optic Internet access to their homes. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 28, 2008 High hopes that the FCC spectrum auction would provide competition in the wireless market were dashed as Verizon and AT&T won bids for large portions of the airwaves. And the Chauncey Bailey Project continues to honor the work of the slain reporter. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 21, 2008 The MPAA has allied themselves with cable and phone companies in their multi-million dollar fight against Net Neutrality. And the increasing disappearance of editorial from newspapers correlates with the rise of media consolidation. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 14, 2008 Media activists are rallying support in the Senate to overturn ownership rules. And Radio Arte, Chicago's Latino-owned, bilingual public radio station, teaches more than radio skills to young people. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 14, 2008 Media activists are rallying support in the Senate to overturn ownership rules. And Radio Arte, Chicago's Latino-owned, bilingual public radio station, teaches more than radio skills to young people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 7, 2008 Calling the FCC’s decision to relax media ownership rules “arrogant” and a “cave-in to corporate interests,” Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) introduced a “Resolution of Disapproval” that would nullify the decision. And a new study on the 2008 presidential primaries shows that news coverage about the “horse race” dominates all other aspects of campaigning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 29, 2008 This week, the FCC held a public hearing in Boston to investigate allegations that Comcast has been blocking Internet traffic. Media Minutes traveled to the event to find that Comcast had paid people to fill the seats - leaving many interested citizens shut out in the cold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 22. 2008 TV and film writers headed back to work last week after a three-month walkout. And vast portions of the public airwaves in between the broadcast channels on your TV dial remain empty but inaccessible. Several public interest groups are pressuring the FCC to set “white spaces” free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 15, 2008 The issue of Net Neutrality once again comes to the fore in the House of Representatives as the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act” is introduced. And AT&T is once again trying to push through statewide video franchising in Tennessee, this time with the help of the Speaker of the House. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 8, 2008 One-third of Americans living in households with TVs are entirely unaware of the government-mandated transition to digital broadcasting slated to take place in February 2009. And the House held a hearing on public, educational and governmental channels last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 1, 2008 The MPAA has admitted to using faulty data to make its case that colleges and universities should filter their networks for copyright violations. And Gannett has expressed interest in partnering with Colorado State University's newspaper, the Collegian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 25, 2008 The ways that Internet Service Providers are approaching heavy bandwidth use underscore the need for improved networks. And several Michigan towns are suing Comcast for attempting to move their PEG channels from the basic analog to a digital tier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 18, 2007 Dave Hughes, the Cursor Cowboy, hangs up his Web access spurs after providing Internet service for 23 years and hooking up rural and remote areas to the wireless Web all over the world. And the 700 MHz spectrum auction could pry open the wireless market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 11, 2008 Data mining on social networks is much more pervasive and secretive than most users know. Long-time media activists Jeff Chester and Kathryn Montgomery share their concerns about online marketing and surveillance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 28, 2007 The Harry Potter Alliance has teamed up with the StopBigMedia.com Coalition to mobilize Harry Potter fans against media consolidation. And a profile of media activist Lauren-Glenn Davitian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 21, 2007 In a 3-2 partisan vote, the FCC ruled to allow further media consolidation, defying overwhelming public and Congressional opposition. But the fight is not over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 14, 2007 FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is harshly criticized during House and Senate oversight hearings for his insistence on bringing forward a vote on media ownership rules. And Chicago is treated to a sing-along of media "carols." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 7, 2007 The FCC opened the door for an increased number of low-power FM stations last week. And social networking Web site Facebook was met with a user backlash for posting information about what they are buying on other sites -- without their consent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 30, 2007 A new report says media consolidation is continuing to squeeze out minority TV station owners, with African-American-owned stations the hardest hit. And the FCC held a rare hearing for a New Jersey TV station's broadcasting license renewal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 23, 2007 FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is paving the way for the agency to more closely regulate cable TV companies. And the FCC must rule on Verizon's forbearance petition by Dec.5. Further "deregulation" could mean higher prices and less competition for phones, DSL and other broadband services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 16. 2007 Media companies are refusing to give writers a small piece of the digital pie, which forced 12,000 movie and television writers to strike last week. And FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed lifting a longstanding ban on media cross-ownership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 8, 2007 Despite the short notice from the FCC, media activists came out to rally against another Big Media giveaway before a public hearing at the agency headquarters. Inside the hearing, Chairman Kevin Martin was hammered by those testifying on the effects of consolidation on local media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 2, 2007 This was a watershed week for media reform, as three important bills passed congressional committees and activists rallied in front of FCC headquarters before the final localism hearing. Meanwhile, a new study shows media consolidation is detrimental to children's programming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: October 26, 2007 After FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's plans for closing the media ownership procedure in December, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) sent him a strong message to slow down and finish the job properly. And Comcast's deceptive file-sharing blocking techniques are exposed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: October 19, 2007 In a precedent-setting action, the FCC is fining Comcast for airing video news releases on its CN8 news channel without identifying the sponsor. And the House of Representatives approved a bill that would protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: October 12, 2007 A report from the GAO says the FCC leaked confidential information to lobbyists, giving telecommunications companies a big advantage in preparing their arguments before critical votes, and leaving consumer and public interest groups in the dark. And a guest commentary by a former radio broadcaster who "thanks" the FCC for changing his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: October 5, 2007 Verizon may have reversed its decision to block text messages from NARAL Pro-Choice America, but public interest groups want Congress to investigate this and other instances of censorship at the hands of corporate gatekeepers. And FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein has called for a task force on minority media ownership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 28, 2007 Hundreds of small and independent magazines from across the political spectrum are struggling to stay alive in the wake of postal rate hikes initially proposed by Time Warner. And Philadelphia finally gets a community television channel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 21, 2007 Public interest groups want to know why the DOJ submitted a filing to the FCC against Net Neutrality – six weeks after the deadline. And OneWebDay's founder talks about why we need to take time to appreciate the Web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 14, 2007 The FCC is holding a public hearing on media ownership in Chicago on Sept. 20, and local organizers are busy educating the public about the issues. And public access television stations across the country are gearing up for local elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 7, 2007 The Youth Media Council is working for media justice and making a difference. Executive Director Malkia Cyril talks about mediating the public conversation to create better public policy. And as American news organizations cut back on international coverage, Americans are increasingly unhappy with the quality of television news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 31, 2007 The Bush administration finally admits that telcos have helped the NSA spy on Americans, which could help pending lawsuits against the illegal wiretapping. And a study finds Chicago's local news programs don't represent the rich diversity of that city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 24, 2007 MediaNews Group consolidates news operations – and tries to bust the union in the process. And the Center for Media and Democracy's Lauren-Glenn Davitian discusses how community media keeps diverse viewpoints alive in an otherwise corporate media landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 17, 2007 This week: AT&T highlighted the concerns of Net Neutrality advocates when it muzzled Pearl Jam's political lyrics and admitted to silencing other bands. And the FCC is opening a window of opportunity for nonprofits and community groups to own their own full power radio station. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 10, 2007 Support is building for the Local Community Radio Act in both the House and the Senate as LPFM activists visit their representatives in their home states this summer. And a strong public outcry against onerous requirements for photographers and filmmakers in New York City has the Mayor's office redrafting the regulations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 3, 2007 The Wall Street Journal becomes a victim of rampant media consolidation as the Bancroft family accepts his offer to buy Dow Jones. The FCC misses a huge opportunity to bring new competition into a fairly closed wireless Internet market. And a U.S. senator is blogging with the public to create broadband legislation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 27, 2007 Journalists at the Wall Street Journal are apprehensive about the possibility of having Rupert Murdoch as their boss. Their union will have to be more vigorous than ever in making sure their rights are upheld. And the Senate Commerce Committee passes the Broadband Data Improvement Act. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 20, 2007 A key House subcommittee debates phone companies' grip on wireless devices and applications. Bipartisan support builds for unlocking devices and opening them up to innovation. Also, Verizon FIOS service pulls the plug on copper -- removing customers' other broadband, phone or television options. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 13, 2007 Phone and cable companies continue their state-by-state campaign to "streamline" video franchising rules, though some states are now wishing they hadn't. Getting information out of the federal government is getting tougher. Microsoft and the Justice Department cozy up. And the United Surveillance of America is beginning to expand beyond its borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 6, 2007 AT&T is working to develop a mass-surveillance and content management system for its network infrastructure, as more than half of all U.S. households now subscribe to some sort of broadband service and the number of homes with "traditional" telephones continues to fall. Meanwhile, Congress begins debate on leveling the playing field between public and private broadband service providers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 29, 2007 The drive to save webcasting from death-by-royalty is gaining momentum in Washington. Qwest's CEO cashes in and checks out. The Supreme Court throws out a class-action case charging major phone companies with collusion. And a suspicious alliance exists between a major media conglomerate and foundation for journalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 22, 2007 Much ado at the FCC, as Congress scrutinizes its work to open up new spectrum for wireless broadband, collect public input on the importance of local media, and may expand low-power FM radio. Also, talk radio's rightward tilt is extensively documented. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 15, 2007 The FCC is flooded with public sentiment on how to conduct an upcoming crucial spectrum auction. Newspaper workers find themselves under fire again. Network Neutrality becomes a bona-fide presidential campaign issue. And public broadcasting stands to get a funding boost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 1, 2007 The Department of Justice seeks to add copyright "thoughtcrime" to its policing lexicon, while U.S. military and domestic security agencies make new moves to further blur the boundary between public relations and propaganda. And purveyors of junk food are blazing new media trails in order to reach younger audiences under their parents' radar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 25, 2007 Journalism with job security is quickly diminishing in America. The FCC finally intervenes in a dispute between big and small phone companies over their rights to connect calls between each other. And the guest-lists of Sunday pundit-TV shows remain relatively homogenous, both ideologically and demographically. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 18, 2007 A Congressional drive to save webcasting gathers momentum. Local governments and citizen's media advocates sue over the FCC's new cable franchising restrictions. Beware of newly-sprouted Astroturf efforts to downplay the importance of network neutrality. And Clear Channel's plans to go private hit another snag. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 11, 2007 Corporate media in Tampa fudges coverage of a recent FCC media ownership hearing. And meet AT&T's new boss: a younger face from the old guard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 4, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 27, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Save the Internet Conference Call: 4/26/07 The United States continues to slip behind the rest of the industrialized world with regard to broadband deployment, and the FCC's settlement of an investigation into radio payola leaves a lot to be desired. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 20, 2007 The U.S. Postal Service prepares to decimate independent publishers with drastic rate hikes. Broadband providers seek to intimidate customers out of switching services with early-termination penalties. And consolidation continues in Tampa, Florida as the FCC prepares to hold a public hearing there on media ownership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 13, 2007 The longest-imprisoned journalist in U.S. history is freed. AT&T's CEO makes a mint off of "his pipes." And the FCC opens a filing window for new community radio stations while preparing to hold another public hearing on media ownership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 6, 2007 Rules regarding the deployment of next-generation wireless broadband are under debate at the FCC. Webcasters may get a reprieve from royalty rates that could drive many of them out of business. And Clear Channel's plans to go private hit a snag. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 30, 2007 Satellite radio seeks a merger, and musicians organize with their fans to Rock the Net and make Internet freedom a point of law again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 23, 2007 Webcasting as we know it is in serious danger of being squeezed out of business by music industry greed. And the debate over losing Network Neutrality grows beyond the bounds of online communication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 16, 2007 The FCC gets grilled by the public one week and Congress the next. And the inventor of the World Wide Web tells lawmakers that Network Neutrality is non-negotiable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 9, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 2, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 23, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 16, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 9, 2007 FCC Chairman Kevin Martin gets grilled by members of the Senate Commerce Committee, and a new book compellingly chronicles how consolidation has decimated the American media environment over the last 10 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 2, 2007 The U.S. Army surrenders in its campaign to haul an independent journalist into the middle of a military court-martial, and the Center for American Progress proposes an innovative way for the FCC to measure local media diversity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 26, 2007 Though the FCC may be moving slowly on revising media ownership rules, it's preparing to avoid enforcement of prohibitions on radio payola. And how media justice is to building a substantive movement dedicated to media reform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 19, 2007 The mood in Washington, D.C. over the chances for constructive media and telecommunications policy reform swings dramatically, though not all of Congress' business will be conducted in the public interest, and the secretive culture of the Federal Communications Commission remains to be fully penetrated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes NCMR Special Coverage: January 14, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes NCMR Special Coverage: January 13, 2007 As the third National Conference for Media Reform draws to a close, more than three thousand people will head home from Memphis poised to take the media reform movement to the next level. Much of the hard work will be done at the grassroots, but it's clear that this year's gathering had a profound effect on those policymakers who attended. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes NCMR Special Coverage: January 12, 2007 Bill Moyers rouses thousands in Memphis by declaring media reform the civil rights movement of the 21st century, while a coalition of consumer and civil rights groups debunks industry calls to permit more media consolidation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 5, 2007 The FCC approves the merger of AT&T and BellSouth with a provision that temporarily preserves Network Neutrality. Private investment in big media companies provokes new questions about regulations surrounding media ownership and its implications. And a new report details the dramatic and detrimental consolidation of the radio industry over the last decade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 29, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 22, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 15, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 8, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: December 1, 2006 Citizens mobilize in Seattle and Nashville to demand the FCC stop further media concentration. FCC-selected researchers writing important studies on media ownership may have some questionable biases. And the Save the Internet Coalition invites you to a party in Memphis, Tennessee to celebrate the campaign to protect Network Neutrality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 24, 2006 The FCC proposes ten dubious studies on the effects of concentrated media ownership, and the battle for Network Neutrality moves from Washington, D.C. to state capitals across the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 17, 2006 An FCC panel recommends the agency freeze its media ownership rules review. Debates over Network Neutrality catch fire outside the U.S. New Orleans abandons its citywide free wi-fi service. Advertisers use the power of the purse to punish talk radio and outspoken musicians. And a Fast Fact: 2006 election advertising spending sets a new record. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 10, 2006 A shift in Congressional party power may signal a bright future for media reform. The FCC yet again delays approval of the AT&T-BellSouth merger. And early-bird registration for the National Conference for Media Reform has been extended. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: November 3, 2006 New York State's investigation into radio payola snags its first broadcast conglomerate. And more than 350 people converge in Oakland to tell two FCC Commissioners to roll back media consolidation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: October 20, 2006 The FCC puts the brakes on the further growth of AT&T, and TV journalists resist the fight against fake news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: October 13, 2006 The Department of Justice gives the green light to continue the resurrection of Ma Bell. Bill Moyers prepares to air a new PBS documentary on the importance of Network Neutrality. And the World Intellectual Property Organization rejects a U.S. attempt to lock down webcasts and podcasts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: October 6, 2006 A thousand people attend the FCC's first official public hearing on media ownership and nearly unanimously oppose further media concentration, while thousands more are expected to attend the third National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tennessee this January. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 29, 2006 Will the FCC's pending revision of media ownership rules stand up to legal scrutiny? And controversy over Network Neutrality stalls the passage of industry-friendly telecom legislation until after the November elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 15, 2006 A Future of Media town meeting in Milwaukee brings out hundreds to talk about media consolidation, while a scandal brews at the FCC involving a spiked study touting the advantages of localism. Meanwhile, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin talks a good game about the state of U.S. broadband, but reality is a very different story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 8, 2006 Grassroots pressure builds on the Senate to preserve Internet freedom, while phone and cable companies redouble their efforts to do away with it. And a Fast Fact: the automation of journalism is alive and well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: September 1, 2006 Ken Tomlinson is back in the hot seat, and a glimpse of the globalization of media reform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 25, 2006 Community radio activists from around the world converge in Woodburn, Oregon to build a new low-power FM radio station for the largest Latino organization in the state. Copyright law and the cops: does having a burned CD in your car make you a criminal? And the FCC is still AWOL with details on its plan to allow for more media consolidation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 18, 2006 The FCC opens inquiries into television stations caught airing fake news, and more evidence of continued journalistic deception is on the way. The Supreme Court agrees to hear an anti-trust case involving the nation's dominant phone companies. A federal judge strikes down the NSA's warrentless wiretapping program as unconstitutional, while several lawsuits alleging telecom complicity in the scheme are consolidated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 11, 2006 As Congress adjourns for a month-long recess the fight over network neutrality becomes a defining electoral issue. Public broadcasting faces new funding and leadership challenges. And a Fast Fact: how localism in radio has been decimated over the last seven years, to the detriment of working broadcasters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: August 4, 2006 Telecom giants fight network neutrality by claiming a need to raise more money, but their profits are already nothing to sneeze at. Meanwhile, cell phone systems offer a preview of an Internet that plays favorites. And changes are coming to digital video recorders which may make it tougher to skip through commercials and protect viewer privacy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 28, 2006 The FCC formally asks for public feedback on how to revise its media ownership rules. Lawsuits alleging telecom complicity in government surveillance proliferate. And a roundup of developments on the propaganda front, both at home and abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 21, 2006 The so-called "father" and "grandfather" of the Internet hold a "debate" on Network Neutrality, while telecom executives in Europe watch the unfolding debate in D.C. closely. And a Fast Fact: media use of think tanks displays a distinct bias. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 14, 2006 The FCC allows the country's two dominant cable companies to get even larger, possibly at the expense of competitive rates and network neutrality. And a look at how journalists fail to provide proper context to the issue of immigration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: July 7, 2006 Just as the Freedom of Information Act turns 40, the federal government undertakes a project to thwart it. Meanwhile, federal officials increase their use of data mining and want Internet service and content providers to voluntarily save more data on their users. And does the most important Senator with regard to telecom issues have a clue as to what the Internet really is? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 30, 2006 The Battle for Net Neutrality moves to the Senate floor, while AOL rolls out pay-mail with little fanfare. More than 400 concerned citizens pack an Asheville auditorium to talk media ownership with the FCC. New York strikes again in its payola probe. And a positive development on the fake news front. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 23, 2006 Here we go again: the FCC begins a review of its media ownership rules, while a public interest constituency mobilizes to try and keep Big Media from getting even bigger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 16, 2006 How cable and phone company mergers represent a new wave of media consolidation. Public broadcasting is back on the chopping block. Gearing up for the fight to preserve Internet freedom in the Senate. And another major-label music conglomerate settles a major payola probe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 9, 2006 Selling out the Internet: the House of Representatives takes a dangerous step toward the virtual toll road. Hear a montage of politicians sing from the same phone books and cable guides at the expense of free speech online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: June 2, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 26, 2006 New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco: concerned citizens take part in a "National Day of Out(R)age" directed at the phone and cable companies' campaign to become gatekeepers of the Internet and strangle community television. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 19, 2006 Major phone companies tread on the Fourth Amendment as Congress considers legislation to create dossiers tracking your Internet use. And the grassroots movement to preserve Internet freedom gains new momentum as major-label musicians join forces with the Christian Coalition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 12, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: May 5, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 28, 2006 Internet freedom under fire in the House of Representatives: can a groundswell of support for network neutrality save free speech online? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 21, 2006 Lawrence Lessig helps explain the pending threat from Congress to an open Internet. Will the people's representatives destroy democratic communication online? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: April 14, 2006 The House of Representatives appears to abandon the principle of network neutrality, while AOL takes more heat for its pending imposition of an "e-mail tax." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: March 4, 2005 Thanks for listening, e-mail me and let me know what you think! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 25, 2005 Thanks for listening, e-mail me and let me know what you think! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 18, 2005 A simmering scandal involves the monetization of FM spectrum that otherwise would have been given away for new community radio stations. Plans for the implementation of digital broadcast copy protection are challenged in court and by hacktivism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 11, 2005 Cable companies lose a four-year battle to weaken local regulation in more than 40 states and are now moving to deregulate state-by-state. Local TV news was nearly devoid of local political news coverage during the 2004 elections. Efforts are afoot in Congress to take on government propaganda and Big Media, allthough the future of the First Amendment looks troublesome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: February 4, 2005 The FCC celebrates the fifth birthday of low power FM community radio with a special public forum. Cable companies are freed of the obligation to carry all digital television signals. And a"think tank"that trashed community wireless networks in a recent report is exposed as the creation of a public relations consulting firm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 28, 2005 SBC to buy AT&T: what are the implications of this acquisition? And media reform wins an important judicial victory as the federal government declines to appeal a decision blocking rule changes that would loosen media ownership restrictions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 21, 2005 More paid pundits shilling Bush administration policies on the sly come to light. Low power FM radio celebrates its fifth birthday. And an audio retrospective of outgoing FCC Chairman Michael Powell's variable definition of"the public interest." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 14, 2005 Controversial computer snooping software Carnivore is retired from use by the FBI. Documentarists lament the tightening of copyright law, which makes it increasingly difficult to produce such films. Soldiers traveling to or stationed in Iraq now receive media relations training. And a Fast Fact: the rising value of spectrum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 7, 2005 Conservative commentator Armstrong Williams is on the hot seat for receiving $240,000 to promote a government program on his media outlets and appearances. The interim government in Iraq is also buying positive coverage from domestic journalists. CNN cancels two pundit-heavy prorgrams after criticism for their lack of substance. And cable and phone companies compete for"triple play"business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. Paul Media Concentration Hearing Montage Two newspaper conglomerates are helping an independently-owned newspaper in Ohio break a strike. Indymedia launches a U.S.-centric news site. Clear Channel hires Fox News to provide newscasts on up to 500 of its stations. And a Fast Fact: advertising budgets to rise in 2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Minutes: January 4, 2008 2007 was a very busy year for media reformers. Media Minutes looks at the top five stories that were generally overlooked by the mainstream media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website