Is junk media making you sick???
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is rushing through plans to remove decades-old media ownership protections. And he’s trying to do it without public scrutiny.
Not the Daily Show
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Hot from the writer’s strike picket line! Via the ever-amazing BoingBoing.
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Via Boing Boing: After promising to do a blog post about it, I was promptly sent the September issue of F&SF. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction was a favorite of my teens and twenties. I’ve read half of the first story. It is holding my interest. I’ll write more when I’ve read more. On sale at news stands now.
Release Potter Now!
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Some clever fool has apparently let loose the latest book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I would like to read the damn thing without spoilers. An internet and general media fast, possibly combined with earplugs and a blindfold would probably work. An immediate wilderness camping trip would be more fun. But neither of these will insure I remain unspoilt.
J.K. or whoever holds the wand, let the bookstores sell now. I see them, they are bundled and sealed in the bowels of giant stores across the world. Release them now!
The GammaBlog pledges not to spoil, and is officially supporting the Release Potter Now movement, forming at this very moment, somewhere else, please.
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder on Fresh Air
Friday, April 20th, 2007Monica Morales
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Monica Morales of News Channel 4, WNBC is on her toes. She caught me taking her picture from way across the avenue. At least I think that’s who this is.
www.wnbc.com/meetthenewsteam/5518456/detail.html
Air America Radio Finds a Buyer
Monday, January 29th, 2007Air America Radio, in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since October, will be rescued at the 11th hour by Manhattan real estate developer Stephen L. Green.
Al Franken, the best-known host of the liberal network, will announce his expected departure on his show later today, to explore a run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.
Green is the brother of Mark Green, the New York Democrat who served as the city’s public advocate in the 90s and ran for mayor against Michael Bloomberg in 2001.
He has already signed a letter of intent, and plans to finalize a purchase agreement within the week.
Air America CEO Scott Elberg confirmed the sale. “This is a great thing, for our affiliates, the company, the audience and every employee in our organization.”
Green is chairman of SL Green Realty Corp, a real estate investment trust specializing in office buildings with a market cap of $12 billion.
Brother Mark is a frequent guest on Air America, and sat in for David Bender, the host of the Air America show Politically Direct, for a couple of weeks earlier this month.
When Franken leaves the network in a few weeks, he’ll be replaced by Thom Hartmann, who already has a syndicated show on the network’s lineup.
Reported on the Huffington Post
This is good news. We need the alternative views that Air America brings to the airwaves now more than ever. I’m glad Franken is going. He was my second least favorite host after the abominable Jerry Springer.
Hartmann is solid on the founding fathers and constitutional history.
9/11 – Considering All Claims
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
RU Sirius Show #64 (Live Panel): 9/11 – Considering All Claims
In a live panel discussion, Fred Burks and Joel Schalit join with hosts RU Sirius and Jeff Diehl to discuss whether 9/11 was “an inside jobâ€, and the impact of the movement that insists that it was.
Burks publishes the Want To Know website and is a former foreign language interpreter who worked with Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Schalit is a Managing Editor at Tikkun.
