MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

  • 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 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! May 29, 2003

    Hour 1: No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway – Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules on June 2nd. Clear Channel has become the symbol of media consolidation, growing from a small-time operator of 40 stations to the nation’s largest radio station…

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

    No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway – Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules on June 2nd. Clear Channel has become the symbol of media consolidation, growing from a small-time operator of 40 stations to the nation’s largest radio station owner, with…

  • 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 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…

  • 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,…