- 05/30/2001
-Tough company
Clear Channel is as big as NBC or Gannett. Chances are it owns a half-dozen radio stations in your town. And it's fighting empl
... > read more - 11/01/2001
-CNN Says Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be Perverse
According to the Washington Post (10/31/01), CNN Chair Walter Isaacson "has ordered his staff to balance images of civilian dev
... > read more - 01/15/2002
-GREENS OPPOSE FCC DEREGULATION
FCC scheme to allow media monopolies would damage the American public's access to open and diverse news, information, and entert ... > read more - 01/28/2002
-NYC Newspapers Smear Activists Ahead of WEF Protests
In a few days, the World Economic Forum will hold its annual meeting, an elite gathering of what the WEF calls the world’s “top de ... > read more - 02/23/2002
-Bush Mimics Reagan and the Corporate Stranglehold on U.S. Media Tightens
Bush rallies America in a perpetual war against "evil ones" and the "axis of evil." Ronald Reagan used the cold war to lambast the ... > read more - 02/26/2002
-Media Ignores Third Party Candidates
Recent polls show that less than 50% of registered voters in California know about the upcoming gubernatorial primary election o ... > read more - 03/20/2002
-Media Stars Make Headlines With Dissenting Opinions, Some Censored
"Politically Incorrect" cancelled, Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" #1 Bestseller in the country, Rosie O'Donnel comes out as le ... > read more - 03/25/2002
-Let the Little Guy Speak
It's been almost a year and a half, but I'm still steamed at those pusillanimous Democrats and their loser candidate, Al Gore. ... > read more - 04/01/2002
-Lean Green Talk Show Machine
MSNBC is courting talk show elder statesman and Green Party propagandist Phil Donahue to return to television as the host of a top ... > read more - 04/03/2002
-PBS's "Commanding" Conflict of Interest: Enron & other corporate giants sponsored new globalization series
In the latest example of PBS's inconsistently applied underwriting guidelines, the network is premiering a six-hour series about t ... > read more - 04/04/2002
-In U.S. Media, Palestinians Attack, Israel Retaliates
The numbers will have risen by the time you read this, but more than 300 Israelis and 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since ... > read more - 04/17/2002
-Fear and Learning in America
Osama bin Laden once told me that Americans did not understand the Middle East. Last week, in a little shuttle bus shouldering its ... > read more - 04/18/2002
-U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move
When elements of the Venezuelan military forced president Hugo Chavez from office last week, the editorial boards of several major ... > read more - 04/23/2002
-Flexing the Power of the Press
Kristina Borjesson never expected to write an exposé of the business she'd devoted her life to. A 20-year veteran of mainstream jo ... > read more - 04/26/2002
-Clear and present danger
Clear Channel already determines much of what we see and hear. It's about to control what we read.
Clear Channel Communications owns seven San Francisco radio stations, a massive concert business, and many of the city's billboard ... > read more - 05/01/2002
-News-Rack Law Again Delayed
Supervisors Look for Ways to Void Deal with Media Giant
With some members expressing concern over signing a 20-year contract with a notorious media giant, the San Francisco Board of Supe ... > read more - 05/08/2002
-The Machine
Sigmund Freud had learned it from Jean-Martin Charcot: ideas can be implanted by hypnosis in the human mind. More than a century ... > read more - 05/10/2002
-Organic Foods Vindicated, But So What?
Last year ABC-TV's John Stossel got caught inventing nonexistent scientific studies so he could pretend that organic foods contain ... > read more - 05/14/2002
-U.S. Newspapers Present Biased View of Biotech
(OAKLAND) Thirteen of the largest newspapers and magazines in the United States have all but shut out criticism of genetically m ... > read more - 05/17/2002
-US Media Cowed By Patriotic Fever, says CBS star:
Network news veteran admits national mood caused him to shrink from tough questions on war in Afghanistan
Dan Rather, the star news anchor for the US television network CBS, said last night that "patriotism run amok" was in danger of ... > read more - 05/26/2002
-Pilfering from Publishers
Have You Hugged an Indie Press Today?
Love your small publisher? You'd better look out for him/her in what's shaping up to be a very bad year.
"I'm being mu ... > read more - 05/28/2002
-Running for cover
An astonishing number of news stories in the last week deserve comment: East Timor's glorious official independence after 27 years ... > read more - 05/31/2002
-Who's On the News? : Study Shows Network News Sources Skew White, Male & Elite
A study of ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News in the year 2001 shows that 92 percent of all U.S. source ... > read more - 06/25/2002
-WHEN NEWS ISN'T NEWS
Nothing is more amazing than the ability of the American media to deep-six one story, while gang-banging another, ad infinitum. ... > read more - 07/08/2002
-Saddam Risk a Lie, Says UN Expert
UNITED Nations weapons inspectors colluded with British secret service agents to spread disinformation about Saddam Hussein's nucl ... > read more - 07/11/2002
-Renouncing Sins Against the Corporate Faith
Just about every politician and pundit is eager to denounce wrongdoing in business these days. Sinners have defiled the holy que ... > read more - 07/19/2002
-SF Chronicle Blantantly Ignores Green for Governor, Despite Polling at 5%
The SF Chronicle again makes the conscious decision to pretend that third-party candidates do not exist. Despite the fact that Pet ... > read more - 07/20/2002
-Green -- and Other Shades of View
Our editorial Friday on the shortcomings of the two major-party gubernatorial candidates, "Don't follow my money," generated stron ... > read more - 07/25/2002
-Who Decides What Voices We Hear? (Published in The Examiner)
Suppose I told you that there is a candidate for governor of California who had the support of a million California voters, who ... > read more - 09/16/2002
-Chuck D Censored by MTV; They Want Him to Drop Mumia References!
Chuck D recently got slammed by MTV for his video 'Give The People What They Want'. The network says they won't air the video unti ... > read more - 10/18/2002
-Do You Know What's Going On?
The swarming enormity of American popular culture ought to be obvious. Never have so many communicated so much, on so many screens ... > read more - 10/18/2002
-Polls -- When Measuring Is Manipulating
Before decisions get made in Washington -- and even before most politicians open their mouths about key issues -- there are polls. ... > read more - 10/28/2002
-NPR, New York Times Count Out Anti-War Activists
National Public Radio and the New York Times arrived at the same conclusion about the anti-war rally in Washington, DC this we ... > read more - 11/01/2002
-Times, NPR Change Their Take on DC Protests
Three days after its first report on the D.C. antiwar protests, readers of the New York Times were treated to a much different acc ... > read more - 01/04/2003
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Ad Spending Preicted for Steady Decline
After 70 years of gonzo profits, the ad industry is in its biggest tailspin since the Depression. Industry journals like Ad Age an ... > read more - 01/13/2003
-Media Missing New Evidence About Genoa Violence
MEDIA ADVISORY:
Police in Genoa, Italy have admitted to fabricating evidence against globalization activists in an attempt to ... > read more - 01/25/2003
-Protest Numbers Don't Add Up
Police Now Say 150,000 Safe Guess
One thing is certain about the crowd estimates for Saturday's peace rally in San Francisco: Everyone's estimate is wrong. Probably ... > read more - 02/06/2003
-Colin Powell Is Flawless -- Inside a Media Bubble
There's no doubt about it: Colin Powell is a great performer, as he showed yet again at the U.N. Security Council the other day. O ... > read more - 02/09/2003
-Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Threatens Physical Assault On, & Ejects, a 9/11 Family Member From His Show
On February 4th, during a live interview on the Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor,” media personality Bill O’Reilly verbally a ... > read more - 03/03/2003
-MSNBC Sabotages Donahue
Monopolist Microsoft and oligopolist General Electric - the co-owners of MSNBC - took their highest rated show off the air and sen ... > read more - 03/06/2003
-Professor Robert Jensen discussing media, media & war, and "Peak Oil"
Video interview in Austin, Texas on 6th February 2003 (Transcript)
Q6. How do you view the 'oil peak' problem? This ... > read more - 03/18/2003
-In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphones for Official Views
Network newscasts, dominated by current and former U.S. officials, largely exclude Americans who are skeptical of or opposed to an ... > read more - 03/23/2003
-Independent reporters fired upon and killed by US forces
4 separate cases of television crews not "embedded" in US military units are fired upon. In one incident US forces fired upon a je ... > read more - 03/25/2003
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On NPR, Please Follow the Script
Last week I found out that National Public Radio wants the opinions of antiwar activists -- as long as we follow the right script. ... > read more - 03/27/2003
-Soldiers at the Door
Military Intimidation, MTV & Clear Channel Censorship
Michael Franti describes how a bandmate's mom received an unnerving visit from the military and how MTV has warned artists it won' ... > read more - 03/30/2003
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Chronicle Suspends Anti-War Reporter, Henry Norr Among 1,300 Arrested For Blocking Streets
A San Francisco Chronicle reporter suspended after getting arrested in an anti-war rally said on Friday that he felt unfairly trea ... > read more - 04/01/2003
-Honesty: The Worst Policy
When Telling The Truth Will Get You Fired From The Networks
When NBC -- which is owned by General Electric, a prime military-industrial complex contractor -- decided to fire Peter Arnett ... > read more - 04/06/2003
-Western Journalists Beaten, Starved by Americans
Arab News has learned that Luis Castro and Victor Silva, both reporters working for RTP Portuguese television, were held for four ... > read more - 04/08/2003
-US Forces Step Up Attacks on Independent Journalists Killing 3
A U.S. tank fired on a Baghdad hotel packed with foreign journalists on Tuesday, killing two cameramen, one from Reuters, the othe ... > read more - 04/11/2003
-The News We Kept To Ourselves
ATLANTA — Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to ar ... > read more - 04/11/2003
-Is Killing Part of Pentagon Press Policy?
The Pentagon has held up its practice of "embedding" journalists with military units as proof of a new media-friendly policy. On A ... > read more - 04/13/2003
-My Oscar "Backlash": "Stupid White Men" Back At #1, "Bowling" Breaks New Records
Dear friends,
It appears that the Bush administration will have succeeded in colonizing Iraq sometime in the next few d ... > read more - 04/20/2003
-Today Show Goes Dark on Tim Robbins
At 8:15 Monday Morning Today Show host Mat Lauer introduced the controversy that has been kicked up by the cancellation of the 15t ... > read more - 05/26/2003
-Intra-Times Battle Over Iraqi Weapons
A dustup between two New York Times reporters over a story on an Iraqi exile leader raises some intriguing questions about the p ... > read more - 07/02/2003
-Green Party Cheers Opposition to FCC Ruling
WASHINGTON, DC -- As the date approached for the Federal Communication Commission's decision on 'relaxing' media consolidation rul ... > read more - 07/09/2003
-It's Dennis Miller Time for Bush
Following an afternoon appearance at President Bush's fundraising luncheon in Burlingame, California, and after hitching a ride on ... > read more - 12/23/2003
-Announcing The P.U.-Litzer Prizes for 2003
The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established more than a decade ago to give recognition to the stinkiest media performances of the year ... > read more - 02/12/2004
-The Scream
On December 1, 2003, Howard Dean was ahead by twenty points in the polls when he appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews and said ... > read more - 08/11/2004
-Can AlterNet Strip FOX Network News of its “Fair and Balanced” trademark?
At a historic July 19th press conference jointly hosted by MoveOn.org, Common Cause, and AlterNet, Don Hazen, Executive Editor of ... > read more - 12/21/2005
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SF Green Party Takes Part in Irish Press Tour
Participating in an exciting program sponsored in part by Boston College, representatives from the local Green Party recently met ... > read more - 05/17/2006
-SFBG endorses Aimee Allison For District 2
Oakland City Council, District 2
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AIMEE ALLISON
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