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Glenn Beck Had Better Kill Us

Glenn Beck is comparatively uneducated, but somehow he’s making millions from his show on Fox News, his radio show, and book deals.  He grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington, a place that is 75.44% White.  He went to Sehome High School in  Bellingham, Washington, a town that is 87.88% White.   He never graduated from college [...]

U.S. Media Companies Should Employ More Asian Talent, Before Seeking Expansion into Asia

It’s not news that large U.S. media companies have a deplorable record  when it comes to hiring and promoting people of color.  While Asians have made some strides in television dramas, there is a persistent dearth of Asians working in television news and in high level management posts.
Still,  as the New York Times reported, these [...]

Radiohead to Testify Against RIAA in File-Sharing Case

Something we need to see more of–actual artists standing up for themselves against RIAA’s disingenuous claims that it cares about artists more than it cares about deep-pocketed record labels.  According to Radiohead’s legal team at Harvard Law School led by Charles Nesson, the band will testify against RIAA in RIAA’s lawsuit against Joel Tenenbaum–the Boston [...]

Univision Fights to Survive

Univision reported a 7.8% drop in ad revenue for the fourth quarter today, bringing the company’s net 4Q08 loss to $1.99 billion.   The company has been mired in declining ad revenues, lawsuits, and longstanding debt obligations.
While automobile advertising at Univision fell 41%, revenues from retail advertisers were up 3%, with telecom and fast food [...]

Things McDonald’s Can Teach Us About How to File an FCC Complaint

OK we get it — calling 911 over a McDonald’s incident isn’t an emergency.  But if it’s not an emergency, then why does big media need to devote valuable airtime to reporting on this woman’s call to 911, UNLESS they want to draw some strange, tongue-in-cheek reference to black people and fried chicken?  I won’t [...]

Why the NY Post’s Advertisers are Today’s Racist Lynch Mob

A few weeks ago, I discussed five reasons why the media reform effort is the civil rights movement of our time.  In one example that I gave, I pointed out the similarities between the way Flavor Flav is depicted and the blackface tradition of vaudeville.  Apparently, it’s not the only negative depiction of black people [...]

Trouble in Big-Media Land

Media consolidation didn’t work.  
For all of their lobbying efforts to consolidate 95% of our media experiences to a handful of companies, now look where we are. If it ended there–just with the failure of these companies that have been hell bent, for decades, on silencing smaller players–the situation would be merely abhorrent. [...]

Georgetown/UCLA/NHMC Sound Death Knell for Hate Broadcasting

Back in November, I wrote a post on hate speech in broadcasting and discussed some of the known examples of hate speech being broadcast on The O’Reilly Factor, on Fox News Network, and Clear Channel’s Savage Nation, which is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks.  Today, The National Hispanic Media Coalition held a press conference, along [...]

5 Reasons Why the Media Reform Effort is the Civil Rights Movement of Our Time

The original civil rights movement was initially greeted by the establishment with not very much interest at all.  ”Separate but equal” was considered the status quo and many wondered why those who wanted to outlaw segregation couldn’t find anything better to do with their time.  There are distinct parallels between that movement and the movement [...]

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