MEDIA

  • Democracy Now! May 20, 2003

    Will changes in the nation s media ownership rules mark “the beginning of the end of our democracy”? A debate between the publisher of the Seattle Times and a Vice President at the Tribune Co. which owns 15 newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Newsday as well as over 25 television stations; Who, What,…

  • Democracy Now! May 21, 2003

    Hour 1: Rupert Murdoch’s Digital Death Star : As FCC prepares to unleash the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history, Rupert Murdoch s News Corp is already moving in on DirecTV; Is the Jayson Blair Affair the Low Point in New York Times 150-Year History?; Cuba: The Next Regime Change? Florida Governor Jeb…

  • Democracy Now! May 21, 2003

    Rupert Murdoch’s Digital Death Star : As FCC prepares to unleash the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history, Rupert Murdoch s News Corp is already moving in on DirecTV; Is the Jayson Blair Affair the Low Point in New York Times 150-Year History?; Cuba: The Next Regime Change? Florida Governor Jeb Bush Denies…

  • 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…

  • Democracy Now! May 23, 2003

    Hour 1:U.N. Security Council Lifts a Decade of Devastating Sanctions Responsible for the Deaths of up to One Million Iraqi Children; Was the Invasion of Iraq the Deadliest U.S. Military Campaign for Civilians Since Vietnam?; U.S. Threatens to Withhold AIDS Drugs from African Countries That Bar Genetically Engineered Foods; Children s Programming is at Risk…

  • Democracy Now! April 28, 2003

    Hour 1: South Africa awards reparations to apartheid victims, some complain the payments of $3,900 are pitifully low : A discussion with Alex Boraine and Dumisa Ntsebeza formerly of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and apartheid victim Thando Shezi; Halliburton, Bechtel and URS profit from the privatization of the military: Charles Lewis of the Center…

  • Democracy Now! April 28, 2003

    US soldiers strip naked four suspected looters and parade them through the streets: The Norwegian reporter who broke the story joins us from Baghdad; Who really saved Private Jessica Lynch? The capture of the American POW might be one of the most heralded stories of the Iraqi invasion but a British reporter claims the U.S.…

  • Democracy Now! April 25, 2003

    Hour 1: An infringement of freedom of the press? The FBI opens and seizes mail sent from one Associated Press reporter to another; Who was Deep Throat? A University of Illinois professor and his class say they have uncovered the identity of the Nixon insider who exposed the story behind the break-in of Watergate; An…

  • Democracy Now! April 25, 2003

    An infringement of freedom of the press? The FBI opens and seizes mail sent from one Associated Press reporter to another; Who was Deep Throat? A University of Illinois professor and his class say they have uncovered the identity of the Nixon insider who exposed the story behind the break-in of Watergate; An exclusive look…

  • Democracy Now! April 21, 2003

    Hour 1: Setbacks in winning Iraqi hearts: A report from Baghdad by Christian Science Monitor reporter Scott Peterson; A look at how the CIA backed and financed Saddam Hussein 40 years in an effort to assassinate Iraq s then prime minster: UPI reporter Richard Sale discloses the CIA-Hussein connection; Bush nominates Islamophobe Daniel Pipes to…