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Democracy Now! May 19, 2003
The U.S. faces wave of media mergers and unprecedented consolidation if FCC relaxes media ownership rules; Dissident FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein speaks out against media ownership deregulation; Indonesian military launches a massive attack on separatist movement in Aceh. |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:25: The Indonesian army has launched a…
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Democracy Now! May 22, 2003
Hour 1: Telecommunications Industry Has Lavished FCC Commissioners with Millions of Dollars in Travel Gifts; FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Speaks at the Final Public Hearing Before FCC Overhauls Decades-Old Rules Governing Media Consolidation; The Peaceful Mbuti People Call on the UN to Prosecute Government and Rebel Fighters as Civil War Rages in the Congo Hour…
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Democracy Now! January 7, 2003
President Bush unveils an economic plan that is expected to cost nearly $700 billion over the next decade. Congress opens today with Republicans in control of the Senate and House. And, pro-war Democrats line up for the 2004 presidential election: A conversation with Ralph Nader; Fox, NBC, Viacom, Walt Disney Co. urge the government to…
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Democracy Now! January 15, 2003
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 15, 1929 April 4, 1968: To celebrate his birthday, we hear King outline his opposition to war; Sarah Jones performs Waking The American Dream, about new immigrants experience in America; she also discusses The Exonerated, a play about innocent death row prisoners; Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between…
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Democracy Now! January 17, 2003
Should the FCC scrap all remaining media ownership rules? we go to the FCC public hearing with a former FCC chair, Fox Entertainment Group, the Nat l Assoc. of Black Owned Broadcasters, the Nat l Assoc. of Hispanic Journalists, the Center for Public Integrity, and the Project for Excellence in Journalism; British punk-rock-pop-anarchist-activist band Chumbawamba…
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Democracy Now! January 16, 2003
Today, Democracy Now! goes live to the FCC hearings in New York: with FCC chair Michael Powell, dissident FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, AFTRA President John Connolly, micro-broadcasting pioneer Pete Tridish, media critic Mark Crispin Miller, Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley, Harlem Consumer Education Committee President Florence Rice and co-host Juan Gonzalez; President Bush says affirmative…