MEDIA

  • Democracy Now! June 18, 2003

    Senate Commerce Committee Decides Tomorrow Whether to Roll Back FCC Decisions Allowing Massive Media Consolidation; Federal Court OKs Post-9/11 Secret Arrests; Bush Taps Lobbyist Enron and Viacom Lobbyist to Head Republican National Committee; As U.S. Kills Two Iraqi Demonstrators in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch Demands Full Investigation of U.S. Killings in Falluja |8:00- 8:01 Billboard…

  • Democracy Now! June 11, 2003

    US Occupation Forces Draw up New Rules for Press Censorship of Iraqi Media. Officials say the code is not intended to censor the media, only to stifle intemperate speech, but Iraqi journalists who endured censorship under Saddam Hussein are protesting the decision; The U.S. and U.N. Refuse to Provide Protection for Witnesses of Massacres: Dr.…

  • Democracy Now! June 11, 2003

    As Attacks on US Soldiers Continue in Iraq We Talk to Robert Fisk who Just Returned from Fallujah. Britain Independent s chief foreign correspondent discusses the growing revolt among Iraqis, the so-called road map to peace in the Middle East and on his meeting with Hamas leader Abdul Aziz Rantissi; Shock Radio/TV Host Michael Savage…

  • Democracy Now! June 20, 2003

    Zimbabwe s Top Court Orders Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai Freed After Spending Two Weeks in Prison. The Zimbabwean ambassador to the U.S. debates critic Patrick Bond on Mugabe s rule, free speech and land reform; Senate Commerce Committee Votes to Prevent Nation s Largest Media Conglomerates from Growing Even Larger. The Senate has begun to…

  • Democracy Now! June 3, 2003

    Over the Chants of Protesters The FCC Votes to Unleash the Largest Wave of Media Consolidation in U.S. History; Nurse Emily Lyons, victim of a 1998 abortion clinic bombing, speaks about the capture of Eric Rudolph. I lost my left eye, damaged my right eye, broke the right side of my face, first, second and…

  • Democracy Now! June 2, 2003

    Democracy Now! Goes Live to the FCC Vote on Rules Governing Media Consolidation. FCC members prepare the way for the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history; The whole thing reeks of conflict of interest. To begin the catalog of corruption here, you would have to do a 24-hour marathon. Robert McChesney, author of…

  • Democracy Now! June 11, 2003

    Hour 1: US Occupation Forces Draw up New Rules for Press Censorship of Iraqi Media. Officials say the code is not intended to censor the media, only to stifle intemperate speech, but Iraqi journalists who endured censorship under Saddam Hussein are protesting the decision; The U.S. and U.N. Refuse to Provide Protection for Witnesses of…

  • Democracy Now! June 2, 2003

    Hour 1: George Bush has Indeed Succeeded in Granting Osama Bin Laden a Wish Beyond his Wildest Dreams He s Turned the U.S. into the Most Feared and Disliked and, in Many Quarters, Most Hated Country in the World. Renowned author, linguistics professor and one of the leading dissident voices in the U.S., Noam Chomsky…

  • Democracy Now! June 3, 2003

    Hour 1: Justice Department Report Finds Immigrants with no Ties to Terror Suffered Pattern of Physical and Verbal Abuse in Detention Facilities. The report does not recommend bringing criminal charges; Swiss Police Cut Rope Holding British Activist Hanging From Bridge, Sending Him Falling Dozens of Feet , and Raid the Independent Media Center, Beating Journalists;…

  • Democracy Now! May 22, 2003

    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 |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06…