John Anderson and Laura Miller join Paul in the studio to talk about the state of journalism in the electronic media. Prior to becoming producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes, John worked in commercial radio news — his last job was morning anchor for the Wisconsin Radio Network. John talks about how he watched radio news get defunded and shrunk under the pressure of consolidation. Laura is the editor of investigative journal PR Watch, published by the Center for Media and Democracy. She talks about how the decline of electronic journalism provided an opportunity for corporations to pass off their own propaganda as news.
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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 FoundationÂ’s Fred Von Lohmann about what music downloading services like iTunes are doing to limit your rights to the music you buy. And weÂ’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.
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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Aaron Glantz was an unembedded reporter in Iraq for Pacifica and Free Speech Radio News after the fall of Saddam. During his time there he saw a side of the country, the people and the war that was missed by most mainstream journalists who were largely confined to their hotels, and only ventured out accompanied by armed guards.
Glantz shares his experiences and his view on the American occupation in his new book, How America Lost Iraq. Paul interviewed Glantz during a stop on his DIY book tour. In this week’s program we hear the first part of this interview, where Glantz explains how he did his reporting and what daily life was like in occupied Iraq.
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Jake Sexton is a fiercely independent blogger and podcaster who takes the mainstream media to taske every day on his blog, and every week on his radioshow. As part of our effort to talk to regular folks busy making their own media, Paul interviews Jake about his projects, and about the state of media in Jake’s hometown of San Diego, CA.
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Paul catches up with the news of our media environment, including the recent release of documents relating to the US government’s seizure of Indymedia servers last year and the FCC’s approval of LPFM licenses for Calvary Chapel churches.
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The MP3 files have been fixed due to a problem just discovered — the feature interview was muted. If you’ve downloaded any of the MP3s of this program, you will want to re-download them. My apologies for the problem.
Odeo is a new web-based podcasting application that allows users to easily find and listen to podcasts, as well as produce their own audio, just using a browser. Paul talks to Evan Henshaw-Plath, a developer for Odeo, about this new web service and its implications for more democratic media production.
We also listen to an interview with Bob Ugly of Free Radio San Diego, a three-year-old unlicensed community radio station that was shut down by the FCC on July 21. That interview comes to us courtesy of the V-Man at Free Radio Santa Cruz.
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