television
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Former Fox News Producer Claims The Network's "Brain Room" Led To Hacking By Stephen C. Webster
A former producer with Fox News claimed in a lengthy essay gaining new traction this week that the conservative television station has a ‘Brain Room’ in its New York headquarters, which enables employees to view private telephone records with ease. Continue reading
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Former Fox News Producer Claims The Network’s “Brain Room” Led To Hacking By Stephen C. Webster
A former producer with Fox News claimed in a lengthy essay gaining new traction this week that the conservative television station has a ‘Brain Room’ in its New York headquarters, which enables employees to view private telephone records with ease. Continue reading
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How Has Murdoch Improved With Age? By Russ Baker
Here’s an old article that WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker wrote about Rupert Murdoch, the media titan whose News Corp is currently the focus of so much controversy. This ran in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1998. But it is useful for comparing the company’s (non-hacking) practices, then and now. Continue reading
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Freedom Rider: Rupert Murdoch and Media Corruption By Margaret Kimberley
The bottomless cesspool that was Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid News of the World is gone, but the ruthless corporate politics of its master still hold sway in the U.S. and Britain. Murdoch is the great vampire of media corruption and consolidation on both sides of the Atlantic. But he is not a solitary villain. ‘Murdoch… Continue reading
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Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch's U.S. TV Licenses? By Peter Hart
On ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Continue reading
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Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch’s U.S. TV Licenses? By Peter Hart
On ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Continue reading
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A Message from Aisha Qaddafi
Libya is involved in direct and indirect talks with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader’s daughter said, although the Benghazi-based opposition has ruled out further contact with Tripoli. Continue reading
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Media: The Spreading of False Ideologies into our Culture By Steven J. M. Jones
By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That’s the theory. Continue reading
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Lie To Me By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Here is what Americans should learn: All elected Democrats and Republicans have succeeded because they are excellent liars and, therefore, not one of them can ever be trusted to be telling the truth Continue reading
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NATO airstrikes kill 19 civilians in Tripoli – Libyan TV
NATO airstrikes on Libyan capital, Tripoli, killed at least 19 civilians over the past 24 hours, the Libyan state television reported. Continue reading
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Cannonball Adderley – Bossa Nova Nemo
Here’s an early version of “Jive Samba” from Oscar Brown, Jr.’s television show Jazz Scene USA – so early the tune had not yet been named. Adderley had only recently expanded his quintet (brother Nat, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes) to a sextet with the unique talents of tenor saxophonist/flutist Yusef Lateef. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/PGbWUIxkbQc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 Continue reading
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WikiRebels – The Documentary
13 December, 2010 Sweden’s public service television, SVT, is about to broadcast a deeply-moving, one-hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks, after having followed the crew for six months. An uninterrupted rough cut of the film can be viewed here until December 13. Though the film arrives in the midst of questionable rape charges, with… Continue reading
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Alice in Videoland By William Bowles
In every sense this past election was played out on television, with the print media doing ‘backup’. Whether the ‘debates’ affected the outcome is neither here nor there, as the script had already been written, on television, through the way the ‘news’ presents the issues and critically what issues to push to the ‘consumers’, sorry… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Lost on the Fearless Plain
The investing class has put thousands of billions into movies, TV and other media to keep the hologram lit up over the past six decades. Which is to say, keep the public in an entertained stupor, awed, mislead, and most importantly, distracted. But the payoff probably runs in the trillions. Continue reading
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Capitalism cut adrift – Part 2: Looking Sideways By William Bowles
Television has become the major propaganda weapon of capital, serving not only to ‘entertain’ but to transform our understanding of where we came from and crucially, how we got here. Continue reading
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Community Media: The Thriving Voice of the Venezuelan People By Liz Migliorelli and Caitlin McNulty
In Venezuela today a grass-roots movement of community and alternative media is challenging the domination of private commercial media. Community oriented, non profit, non commercial, citizen and volunteer run media outlets are a crucial part of the democratic transformation of society that is occurring throughout Venezuela. Part of this transformation is the understanding of freedom… Continue reading
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Raanan Shaked: Bomb it yourself
You calmly go into Hot’s VOD and there on the main menu waiting for you is the category of Cast Lead. You select it and there you are — whole worlds of rich and entertaining content, courtesy of the IDF Spokesperson Office! Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008
Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008, Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life William Blum www.killinghope.org Propaganda as an Olympic competition The latest protests in Tibet and crackdown by Chinese authorities have brought up the usual sermonizing in the West about Chinese government oppression and illegitimate control of the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 