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20080623
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"July
18 Deadline for Cross-Ownership Move Requests: Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals Gives Broadcasters, Media Activists Until July
18 to File Requests for Moving Appeal of FCC Decision." ... "The Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals gave broadcasters and media activists
until July 18 to file their requests for moving the appeal of the Federal
Communications Commission's decision
to loosen the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership." ...
"That's according to one of the parties involved." -By
John Eggerton -BroadcastingCable.com
20080616
Kevin
Jeffrey Martin - Corporate
- Government
- Politics
- Satellite
- Spectrum
- History
- Communications
- Media
- Minorities
- Women
- Lawmakers
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"Radio
Merger Under Fire From Black Lawmakers: Caucus, FCC
[Federal Communications Commission] Chair Differ On Setting Aside XM, Sirius
Channels for Minorities." ... "Senior members of the Congressional Black
Caucus yesterday criticized a compromise plan for the proposed merger of
the XM and Sirius satellite radio companies, saying the deal does not provide
enough opportunities for minority-owned programming." ... "[Republican
President Bush's] Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin
said over the weekend that he would support the merger after XM Satellite
Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio voluntarily agreed, among a series
of other concessions, to lease 4 percent of their radio spectrums, or 12
channels, for programming run by minorities and women." ... "Members of
the black caucus on Capitol Hill have been arguing for the merged company
to lease five times that amount of spectrum to companies owned by racial
minorities." ... "[Maryland Democratic Representative Elijah E. Cummings:]
"It's shocking to the conscience in this day and age, where the minority
populations comprise a significant part of the satellite radio audience,
that Mr. Martin would settle for what I deem to be crumbs that have fallen
off the table," Cummings said." ... "If the merger is approved, it would
be a major reversal of FCC rules. The agency distributed licenses to XM
and Sirius in 1997 on the condition the two companies never combine." -By
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum -WashingtonPost
20080516
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Barack
Obama - Communications
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- Radio
- Media
- Market
- Government
- Politics
- 2008
Election - "Obama,
Bush at Odds Over Media-Ownership Vote: Democratic
Presidential Candidate Urges House of Representatives to Follow Senate's
Lead, Scrap FCC's Media-Ownership-Rule Change." ... "The fight over the
Federal Communications Commission's [December] Dec.
18 media-ownership vote set up a potential battle between the current
president [Republican Bush] and a senator who wants to be the next one."
... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator]
Sen. Barack
Obama (D-Ill.[Democratic-Illinois]) Thursday urged the House to follow
the Senate's lead and pass a resolution of disapproval, an unusual legislative
maneuver that would invalidate the FCC's decision to allow TV and radio
stations and newspapers to be co-owned in the top 20 markets, subject to
some conditions." ... "After
the Senate approved the measure, Obama, a co-sponsor of the bill, released
a statement saying, "I urge my colleagues in the House of Representatives
to expeditiously pass the legislation."" ... "He framed the vote, as he
has before, as standing up to "Washington special interests," a campaign
theme. "Our nation’s media market must reflect the diverse voices of our
population, and it is essential that the FCC promotes the public interest
and diversity in ownership," he said." -By John Eggerton
-BroadcastingCable.com
20080424
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Terrorism
- Language
- Radio
- Politics
- 2008
Election - Denver
- Colorado
- "Rush
Limbaugh Calling For Riots In Denver." ... "Talk
show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments
calling for riots in Denver [Colorado] during the [2008 Election] Democratic
National Convention this summer." ... "He said the riots would ensure a
Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility
to make sure it happens." ... ""Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention
would see to it that we don't elect Democrats," Limbaugh said during Wednesday's
radio broadcast. He then went on to say that's the best thing that could
happen to the country." -TheDenverChannel.com
20080420
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Corporate
- Government
- Psychological
- Military
- Intelligence
- Television
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- History
- Guantánamo
- Prison
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- "Behind
TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand." ... "In the
summer of 2005, the [Republican President] Bush administration confronted
a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay [US military prison
in Cuba]. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our
times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from
United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure."
... "The administration’s communications experts responded swiftly. Early
one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one
of the jets normally used by [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney and
flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo."
... "To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented
tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts”
whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered
judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-[September]Sept. 11
world." ... "Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a
Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign
to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance,
an examination by The New York Times has found." ... "The effort, which
began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought
to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial
dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested
in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air." ... "Those business
relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not
even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane
and several dozen other military analysts represent more than 150 military
contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants.
The companies include defense heavyweights, but also scores of smaller
companies, all part of a vast assemblage of contractors scrambling for
hundreds of billions in military business generated by the administration’s
war on terror. It is a furious competition, one in which inside information
and easy access to senior officials are highly prized." ... "Records and
interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access
and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media
Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from
inside the major TV and radio networks." ... "Analysts have been wooed
in hundreds of private briefings with senior military leaders, including
officials with significant influence over contracting and budget matters,
records show. They have been taken on tours of Iraq and given access to
classified intelligence. They have been briefed by officials from the White
House, State Department and Justice Department, including Mr. Cheney, Alberto
R. Gonzales and Stephen J. Hadley." ... "In turn, members of this group
have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected
the information was false or inflated. Some analysts acknowledge they suppressed
doubts because they feared jeopardizing their access." ... "A few expressed
regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the
American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis."
... "Many also shared with Mr. Bush’s national security team a belief that
pessimistic war coverage broke the nation’s will to win in Vietnam, and
there was a mutual resolve not to let that happen with this war." ... "This
was a major theme, for example, with Paul E. Vallely, a Fox News analyst
from 2001 to 2007. A retired Army general who had specialized in psychological
warfare, Mr. Vallely co-authored a paper in 1980 that accused American
news organizations of failing to defend the nation from “enemy” propaganda
during Vietnam." ... "“We lost the war — not because we were outfought,
but because we were out Psyoped,” he wrote. He urged a radically new approach
to psychological operations in future wars — taking aim at not just foreign
adversaries but domestic audiences, too. He called his approach “MindWar”
— using network TV and radio to “strengthen our national will to victory.”"
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-By David
Barstow -NYTimes
WATCH
- "How
the Pentagon Spread Its Message." ... "David Barstow,
an investigative reporter for The Times, examines primary source documents
detailing the Pentagon’s response to criticism of then-Secretary of Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld by a group of prominent retired generals." -By
David
Barstow
-NYTimes
20080319
-
John
McCain
- Foreign
- Intelligence
- Military
- Terrorism
- Politics
- History
- Radio
- 2008
Election - US
- Iraq
- "McCain
stumbles in Amman." ... "[2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain has long presented
himself as a seasoned statesman and foreign policy expert, someone with
the wisdom and experience to guide the U.S. [United States] through troubled
times." ... "That's why the media and his rivals pounced on him when he
got a fundamental question regarding the violence in Iraq wrong." ... "Karen
Finney, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, issued a press
release:"
"After
eight years of the [Republican President] Bush administration’s incompetence
in Iraq, McCain’s comments don’t give the American people a reason to believe
that he can be trusted to offer a clear way forward. Not only is Senator
McCain wrong on Iraq once again, but he showed he either doesn’t understand
the challenges facing Iraq and the region or is willing to ignore the facts
on the ground."
"Democrats
also noted that McCain had made similar comments during an interview on
a conservative talk radio program, “The Hugh Hewitt Show."" -By
Borzou Daragahi -LAtimes
20080220
-
Terrorism
- Radio
- Language
- Race
- Politics
- 2008
Election - Obama
- "O'Reilly:
"I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's
evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels"."
... "Summary: In a discussion of recent comments made by Michelle Obama
[wife of 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Barack Obama],
Bill O'Reilly took a call from a listener who stated that, according to
"a friend who had knowledge of her," Obama " 'is a very angry,' her word
was 'militant woman.' " O'Reilly later stated: "I don't want to go on a
lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts,
that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels
-- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's
legit."" -Bill
O'Reilly via -MediaMatters.org
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