Grand Theft Digital: How Corporate Broadcasters Will Hijack Digital TV
By Black Agenda Report
If a nationwide movement for media justice really exists, it must begin to expose the privatization of the public airwaves hidden in plain sight under the guise of the “transition” from analog to digital TV.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/11/grand-theft-
digital-how-corporate-broadcasters-will-hijack-digital-tv/

60 Months In The Red Zone
By Felix Gillette, Matt Haber and John Koblin, NY Observer
Five Years Later, the American Press Corps in Iraq Is War-Weary and Depleted-Also Committed, Engaged and Desperately Seeking a Narrative to Wake Up Readers
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/
2008/06/11/60-months-in-the-red-zone/

Turning Point: Energy
By Curtis Brainard, Columbia Journalism Review
A month ago, the Republicans’ presumptive nominee for president, John McCain, made a media splash with a speech reaffirming his commitment to tackle global warming.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/
2008/06/11/turning-point-energy/

Spanish-language Media Key To Victory With Latinos
By Gebe Martinez, Politico
While the dust was still settling last week in the Democratic presidential race between Obama and Clinton, presumptive Republican nominee McCain was kicking up his general election advertising war – on Spanish-language radio.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/11/
spanish-language-media-key-to-victory-with-latinos/

ProPublica Opens For Business
By Roy Greenslade, Greenslade Weblog
ProPublica, the not-for-profit investigative journalism initiative, is up and running.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/
06/11/propublica-opens-for-business/

Palestinian, Lebanese Win Samir Kassir Awards
By IFEX
A Palestinian journalist who tackled the fallout between Fatah and Hamas and a Lebanese student who wrote about the difficult path of modernisation in his country are this year’s winners of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/11/
palestinian-lebanese-win-samir-kassir-awards/

Somalia: NUSOJ Leader Assassinated
By IFEX
The vice-president of IFEX member the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) was gunned down last week, days after the group had appealed to the UN Security Council to protect journalists in the conflict-ridden country.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/
11/somalia-nusoj-leader-assassinated/

Video – Huffington breaks down the media
Ariana Huffington on her book Right is Wrong. Watch Here “
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/
11/huffington-breaks-down-the-media/

News Dissector – KUCINICH PRESSES IMPEACHMENT; MAJOR MEDIA IGNORES HIS DARING
Kucinich Ignored By Major Media In Call For Impeachment | New Billion Dollar Missing Money Scandal in Iraq | Cheney Pressed for Bombing of Iran | UN Asked to Monitor Zimbabwe Crisis | Report that HUD Facilitated Subprime Crisis | Where Does McCain’s Money Come From? | Obama Prepares For Internet Attacks | More
www.newsdissector.com/blog/

Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio
Written by veteran media critic and Emmy winner Rory O’Connor, Shock Jocks features unsparing profiles of the ten worst conservative radio talkers in America, including Michael Savage, Bill O’ Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus and the rest.
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