We talk to investigative reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson. They were fired from FOX TV 13 in Tampa, FL for blowing the whistle on the station, which tried to bury and change facts on a story on bovine growth hormone (BGH) after being contacted by Monsanto.
Akre and Wilson are challening the station’s license with the FCC, which is up for renewal. They say the station aired known lies about BGH, and therefore failed to act in the public interest.
We also discuss the latest news from the FCC about the departure of Media Bureau Chief Ken Ferree and the Commission’s decision not to challenge the Third Circuit Court decision striking down its revised media ownership rules.
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We discuss the news of FCC Chairman Powell’s decision to leave the FCC. Then we talk to Hannah Sassaman from the Prometheus Radio Project about the upcoming celebration at the FCC of LPFM’s 5th birthday.
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We talk with Karen D’Andrea, producer for the 8th Annual Homelessness Marathon, which airs Feb. 14 – 15.
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I’m doing the radioshow downloads differently as an experiment. I’m separating one file specifically for the podcast feed, and putting the other download and streaming files into separate posts.
This is the download specifically for the podcast feed.
I’ve also got a question for all the podcast listeners, which I’m including here as an mp3, too, in case you never read this page, and just let your podcast software do the downloading.
For those of you reading this, the question is: What is the best format to receive the mediageek podcast? For the first time I’m feeding just a 32kbps mp3 file — lower quality than the broadcast quality 64kbps mp3, but it takes less time to download, uses up less space on your mp3 player. Is this useful, or would another format be better?
E-mail your answers to paul@mediageek.org.
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I’m doing the radioshow downloads differently as an experiment. I’m separating one file specifically for the podcast feed, and putting the other download and streaming files into separate posts.
This is the download specifically for the podcast feed.
I’ve also got a question for all the podcast listeners, which I’m including here as an mp3, too, in case you never read this page, and just let your podcast software do the downloading.
For those of you reading this, the question is: What is the best format to receive the mediageek podcast? For the first time I’m feeding just a 32kbps mp3 file — lower quality than the broadcast quality 64kbps mp3, but it takes less time to download, uses up less space on your mp3 player. Is this useful, or would another format be better?
E-mail your answers to paul@mediageek.org.
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John Anderson joins us for our 3rd annual year-end wrap-up. John is the producer of Media Minutes, a weekly five-minute media news program from the media reform organization Free Press, and the webmaster behind DIYmedia.net.
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Entry at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mg123104
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Drew talks to Mike Bonnano, one of the Yes Men, a group of identity correctors, who recently appeared on BBC TV as representatives of Dow chemical, in order to claim full responsibility for the Bhophal disaster 20 years ago. They discuss the intersection of art and activism, and the inspirations for the Yes Men’s brand of protest.
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Entry at Internet Archive:Â https://archive.org/details/mg122404
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Andrew O’Baoill is our guest to discuss the young community and college radio movement in Ireland. Andrew is a PhD. student at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois and in the mid-90s he helped to put on the air one of the first college/community radio stations in Ireland, Flirt FM at the University of Galway.
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Entry at Internet Archive:Â https://archive.org/details/mg121704
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On this edition, we talk to Leigh Robartes, chairman of the board of directors for Radio Free Moscow, KRFP, Moscow Idaho. Robartes is a veteran independent reporter and one of the founding members of Free Speech Radio News. We discuss the media scene in the Moscow area, and the need for community radio in smaller communities.
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Entry at Internet Archive:Â https://archive.org/details/mg121004
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Paul and Drew discuss the five-year anniversary of Indymedia, coincident with the five-year anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle. We listen to comments made in Dec. 1999 by former WEFT-airshifter and Urbana-Champaign IMC founding member Peter Miller about the original IMC after returning from the protests.
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Entry at Internet Archive:Â https://archive.org/details/mg120304
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January 28, 2005 7:15 pm | 
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