On this edition, the customer is always wrong, how Congress might starve public access TV, and a station for Katrina evacuees goes off the air. Jeff Nicholson-Owens, from WEFT’s Digital Citizen, talks to Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred Von Lohmann about what music downloading services like iTunes are doing to limit your rights to the music you buy. And we’ll catch up with the other stories in mediageek news headlines.
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Shawn Granton is an independent publisher and comics artist from Portland, OR. He’s currently on a DIY tour across the country giving comics workshops and showing independent videos documenting Portland’s thriving and creative bicycling scene. He talks about these videos, and the strong do-it-yourself ethic that pervades Portland.
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John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes joins Paul to discuss Houston authorities silencing an legal low-power FM station intended to broadcast information to hurricane Katrina evacuees housed in the Astrodome. John also catches us up with what’s going on with unlicensed micropower stations.
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This week Paul plays the second part of his interview with independent reporter Aaron Glantz, who worked unembedded in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. He tells us how he coped with seeing the horrors around him, and how he ended up in Iraq to begin with.
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September 22, 2005 1:32 am | 
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