WASHINGTON (AP) Tuesday — Congress struck back at the Bush administration's trend toward secrecy since the 2001 terrorist attacks, passing legislation to toughen the Freedom of Information Act and increasing penalties on agencies that don't comply. ... It would be the first makeover of the FOIA in a decade, among other things bringing nonproprietary information held by government contractors under the law. The legislation also is aimed at reversing an order by former Attorney General John Ashcroft in the wake of the attacks, in which he instructed agencies to lean against releasing information when there was uncertainty about how doing so would affect national security.
Monopoly regulations eased
Rupert Murdoch led the charge to convince the Federal Communications Commission to ease restrictions on media owners which had previously prohibited industry-moguls from owning multiple media companies on multiple media platforms in one market.
In english: Corporations can now own print, television and radio broadcasting outlets in the same American cities.
Rupert Murdoch led the charge to convince the Federal Communications Commission to ease restrictions on media owners which had previously prohibited industry-moguls from owning multiple media companies on multiple media platforms in one market.
In english: Corporations can now own print, television and radio broadcasting outlets in the same American cities.
Yahoo! reported Tuesday:What does this mean for the future of the media? Look for a lot more advertising driven news. Period.
There was never any doubt that FCC chair Kevin Martin, a Bush-Cheney administration appointee and acolyte, would lead the two other Republican members of the commission to a 3-2 endorsement of a move to begin dismantling the historic "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership" ban which has long served as the only barrier to the buying by one powerful individual or corporation of newspapers, television and radio stations and other media outlets in a community.
Crying 'Dyke'
CBS 3's soon-to
-be-former newsanchor Alycia Lane was arrested in NYC last weekend and apparently got hostile with the officer attempting to take her into custody. She allegedly assaulted the officer, punching her and calling her a "fucking dyke." Great choice of words Alycia.
CBS 3's soon-to
-be-former newsanchor Alycia Lane was arrested in NYC last weekend and apparently got hostile with the officer attempting to take her into custody. She allegedly assaulted the officer, punching her and calling her a "fucking dyke." Great choice of words Alycia.The gay community in Philly has had a notably silent reaction. Though a few civil rights groups spoke out against the use of the word, most people in "the life" shrugged and said, "We use that word all the time." My favorite lesbian comicstrip Dykes To Watch Out For is a prime example.
Today, PhillyBurbs blog started calling for Lane to do a spread in Playboy. But considering a significant portion of Playboy subscribers are lesbians, somehow I find the idea, well, unlikely at best.
Chicago Trib purchase
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor Sam Zell completed the $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co., ending the newspaper publisher's 24 years as a publicly traded company. ...
"The whole newspaper industry has realized that the world is changing around them,'' said James Goss, an analyst with Barrington Research in Chicago. `It's clear that the changes are more dramatic than anybody was really envisioning and the business model revamp is going to be much greater than people were thinking.''Look for a heck of a lot more uniformity across the board, folks. We are consolidating the industry... rapidly.
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