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freepress newsMedia Minutes: July 4, 2008Categories: media reform
Beijing Deploys Citywide Wireless Broadband NetworkResidents of Beijing will have citywide Wi-Fi service by 2010, if everything goes as planned. CECT-Chinacomm Communications has finished the first phase which covers 100 square kilometers. They will free Wi-Fi service during the Olympics. I do not know how good the service is because I have not gone to Beijing to test it and I don’t know anyone who has done so. This is one challenging project. Categories: media reform
Judge Orders YouTube to Give User Data to ViacomIf you wanted to keep your obsession with hyperactive YouTube phenomeon “Fred” a secret, you’re in for some bad news. Categories: media reform
Birmingham Mayor Refuses to Do Interview with al-Jazeera ReportersBirmingham Mayor Larry Langford Tuesday refused to be interviewed by reporters from Middle Eastern news network Al-Jazeera English because he opposes the group's coverage of terrorist activities and its graphic display of hostages. Categories: media reform
Fox News Airs Altered Photos of New York Times ReportersEditor's note: To watch the video and see the photos, click here. Categories: media reform
L.A. Times Outlines 'Painful' CutsThe Los Angeles Times plans to cut approximately 150 positions—or about 17 percent—from its print and Internet newsroom staff and reduce the number of pages it publishes each week by 15 percent, Times Publisher David Hiller and Editor Russ Stanton informed staff Wednesday. Categories: media reform
Civil Liberties Groups Sue for Information on Cell Phone LojackingWe expect our cell phones to do a lot these days: make calls, check e-mail, take photographs, play music, surf Web sites, let the government track your every move. Categories: media reform
Local News: If It Bleeds, It Shouldn't LeadScenes from the local evening news: a shrill breaking-news report from the scene of the crime; a fear-mongering story about the latest health or consumer scare; perhaps a news-you-can-use featurette that is neither newsy nor useful. Categories: media reform
FCC Chief Martin Is the Nation's Indecency CzarThey hail him as a hero. He is Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and, for proponents of family values, the man who can shield America's living rooms from the coarse and offensive offerings of the cable television industry. With his Harry Potter glasses and polite Southern manner, Martin, 42, a Republican up-and-comer, has become the nation's indecency czar. Categories: media reform
Late-Period LimbaughAt one time, Limbaugh did his program from a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper he dubbed, with tongue-in-cheek grandiosity, the Excellence in Broadcasting Building. These days, he mostly broadcasts out of a studio in Palm Beach, Fla., which he calls the Southern Command, and describes on the air as a “heavily fortified bunker.” Categories: media reform
Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Talkin' Big PaydayRush Limbaugh and Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks have agreed to a contract extension that will pay the conservative talk-radio pundit more than $400 million through 2016. The eight-year extension includes a $100 million signing bonus, Limbaugh told the New York Times. The deal comes about a month before the broadcaster celebrates 20 years in syndication August 8. Categories: media reform
LA Times to Cut 250 jobs, including 150 News JobsThe Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and online news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales, the paper's editor said Wednesday. Categories: media reform
Save the PressOn the lobby wall of the newspaper where I got my first reporting job are the Thomas Jefferson words that journalists like to trot out as Independence Day nears: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Categories: media reform
The Case Against Google-YahooGoogle and Yahoo say there are plenty of reasons why their recently announced plan to work together on Internet-search advertising should pass muster with regulators. For starters, it's not a merger and it covers only a small part of Yahoo's search business. Besides, it's not exclusive—so either side can strike comparable deals with third parties. Categories: media reform
You Can Stop the Vile MediaF YOU'RE lucky, you missed getting a bloody e-mail promoting Ashanti's new single, "The Way That I Love You." It was disturbingly violent and, given the homicide rate plaguing many American cities, it was in unbelievably bad taste. Categories: media reform
Broadband Internet Adoption Stalls, Regresses for Poor, Says Pew ReportBroadband growth in the United States has effectively stalled over the past five months, a possible victim of the economic slowdown, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Categories: media reform
Two Issues with Major Repercussions for Consumers at FCC -- Cell Phone Fee and Satellite RadioTwo issues that could have major repercussions for consumers are now floating around the executive offices of the Federal Communications Commission headquarters. Categories: media reform
Civil Liberties Groups Sue U.S. over Mobile Phone TrackingThe American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are asking a federal court to order the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users. Categories: media reform
The Rising Cost of TextingIf you thought gas prices were rising too quickly, check out what's been happening to text messaging. Categories: media reform
European Lawmaker to Sue U.S. over DataA European Union lawmaker who frequently travels to the United States is suing the U.S. government for access to her personal records, such as credit card information and travel history, that the Department of Homeland Security and other security agencies may have gathered. Categories: media reform
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