nolympics submits:

"Plunder of the Public Airwaves"

Iain Boal

Text of remarks delivered at the Federal Communications Commission Hearing on Media Ownership Rules at the City Hall, San Francisco, Saturday April 27th, 2003:

My name is Iain Boal. I am a historian of science and technics, with a longtime interest both in radio and in the history of enclosure and privatization. I have stood once before in such a room, some eight years ago, in Washington DC, during the effort to derail the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which quite predictably led to a vast plunder of the public airwaves.

The jackals are back again -- this time to scavenge for what is left of the carcass. The hearings were  a travesty then; now they have the makings of a farce. There is only one commissioner here today; Chairman Powell has not seen fit to show himself to the people of Northern California. Nor have the rest of the commission. None of the corporate interests poised to profit from the new ruling has bothered to show up either; the fix is already in. They should know; they paid for it.

nolympics writes:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/wld/graphics/strategic_i srael_dw.htm

Anonymous Comrade writes:

http://www.projectcensored.org/stories/2003/defaul t.htm

Censored 2003: Top 25 Censored Stories of 2001-2002



        #1: FCC Moves to Privatize Airwaves


       


        #2: New Trade Treaty Seeks to Privatize Global Social Services


       


        #3: United States' Policies in Colombia Support Mass Murder


       


        #4: Bush Administration Hampered FBI Investigation 46 into Bin Laden Family Before 9-11


       


        #5: U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water System

hydrarchist writes:

"Live From Iraq, an Un-Embedded Journalist:

Robert Fisk on Washington's 'Quagmire' in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush's 'War of Liberation' "

By Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill

http://www.democracynow.org/fisk.htm

NOTE: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT

DEMOCRACY NOW! MARCH 25, 2003

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Host: Set the scene for us in Baghdad right now.

Robert Fisk, The Independent: Well, it?s been a relatively?relatively being the word?quiet night, there?s been quite a lot of explosions about an hour ago. There have obviously been an awful lot of missiles arriving on some target, but I would say it was about 4 or 5 miles away. You can hear the change in air pressure and you can hear this long, low rumble like drums or like someone banging on a drum deep beneath the ground, but quite a ways away. There have only been 2 or 3 explosions near the center of the city, which is where I am, in the last 12 hours. So, I suppose you could say that, comparatively, to anyone living in central Baghdad, it?s been a quiet night.