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Media Ownership

Keeping It Real: An LPFM Pioneer

 

Posted by Bruce Rushton on
Illinois Times

Enjoy this fun article on a pioneer in low-power formerly “pirate” radio from the Illinois Times.

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Mbanna Kantako is on a roll.

From his rental house just off North Grand Avenue in Enos Park, the 54-year-old blind man talks about the advent of spring and the need to till the soil. He speaks of pollution, the Great Spirit, expectations that people gain responsibility with age and the Boston Marathon bombing, not knowing how many people might be listening via a radio signal that covers just a tiny portion of the city.

“You know the government set this shit up,” he intones. “It’s the government. They the ones that did 9/11. They the ones that did the Oklahoma City bombing. You have every reason not to believe what the government says.” Continue reading Keeping It Real: An LPFM Pioneer →

Media Ownership

Special Customer Service For You

 

Internal Comcast documents leaked and posted on Reddit contain instructions to “immediately” transfer customers who ask about network neutrality, Netflix (with whom Comcast has been ensconced in a long battle) or the telecom’s new and unpopular data caps unrolled in several states (not yet in California) to a special customer service division called “The Customer Security Assurance (CSA) Team”. Continue reading Special Customer Service For You →

Media Ownership, Press Room

Maui Condos Or Public Trusts?

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Originally published on Huffington Post

As part of an epidemic of higher education institutions nationwide ridding themselves of educational TV and radio licenses, the San Mateo Community College District in Northern California has announced the upcoming sale of KSCM-TV, the noncommercial TV station it has owned and operated for 48 years. Continue reading Maui Condos Or Public Trusts? →

Media Ownership, Press Room

Looking for Journalism in all the Wrong Places

 

Originally published in the Huffington Post

The news is full of the lack of news. Everywhere pundits, commentators, and academics mourn the death of the crusading journalism of the fourth estate. My own organization, Media Alliance, was founded in 1976, in the heady days following the Watergate scandal that ended a presidency. Movie stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed the Washington Post reporters who tracked an obscure break-in to the upper reaches of the White House. The film now seems like an antique, a dinosaur in an age when the off-the-cuff comments of long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas garner more attention than her interrogations of presidents. Continue reading Looking for Journalism in all the Wrong Places →