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Reviews and commentary for the media whore inside us all.
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Securing Their Legitimacy (Media)
By quixotic1
Mon Sep 23rd, 2002 at 08:41:54 AM EST
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Why the current state of American journalism is good for media corporations, good for politicians, and bad for democracy: A review of Journalism After September 11
Many Americans have a peculiar sense of dualism about themselves, a feeling at once slightly elitist and fiercely victimized. The United States attempts to be the great savior of the world, but is cast off by many other nations, and it is from this so many Americans draw both superiority and resentment. While U.S. citizens have much to be proud of, most are neurotically opposed to admitting any shortcomings, and it is this arrogance--not, as is so often cited, hatred of American culture or freedom--that is a primary source of a bias against the United States from Sweden to Somalia. Two phrases plastered across American newspapers a year ago demonstrate this bipolar affliction: Everything has changed and Why do they hate us? Only Americans could claim that their indeed heart-wrenching loss of 3,000 lives had superseded every other such atrocity the world over, yet simultaneously sequester themselves with a flippant "us."
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A Plea for Public Access Television (Media)
By ip4noman
Thu Aug 22nd, 2002 at 06:10:51 PM EST
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The United States Constitution defines a limited government, and the first ten Amendments are a Bill of Rights guaranteeing certain freedoms to the sovereign people. The
First Amendment asserts our rights of Free Speech, Freedom of Belief, and a Free Press, as these things were considered by our Founding Fathers to be absolutely necessary to a well-functioning democracy.
But consider that most people in America receive 90%+ of their news from traditional media (newspapers, television, and radio owned by for-profit corporations), and you realize that we don't have a free press today, and our republic may be in danger because of it. Today, we have a commercial press, which something really very different from "free", in every sense of the word.
There is a power-shift occuring now with alternative media, from Indymedia, Pacifica Radio, and K5. However most people get most of their news from television.
Public Access Television was created to help balance the power of the huge monopoly media giants. Unfortunately, most people don't know what it is all about
This article presents a history of Public Access Television, and gives information about how to become involved to make your own TV shows. If you don't have a facility in your town, we'll tell you how to get one!
[Note: This essay may be a bit US-centric, because this is where I live, and these are the laws which I've studied. However,
Public Access is worldwide...]
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He-Man: an appreciation (Media)
By IHCOYC
Wed Aug 21st, 2002 at 12:53:36 AM EST
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Over the past weekend, Cartoon Network debuted the movie-length premier of their new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series.
Go ahead and admit it. You're a fan of this funny and cheesy Eighties cartoon.
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Cheap Complex Devices: A computer, a madman, and a swarm of bees (Media)
By rusty
Tue Jul 30th, 2002 at 08:08:07 AM EST
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There once was a madman who dreamed that he was sane and it was the rest of the world that was mad. From that day on he was never certain if he was mad, or if he was a swarm of bees, or if he was a Shaker village, or if he was a court deposition in defense of Ted Kaczynski, or if he was a fictional character in a novel written by a computer. Or if there was really any difference between these things.
To put it another way: "Read This Manuscript, It Is By a Madman Who Thinks He Is a Computer Program."
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MPEG-4 Patent Holders Capitulate on Pay-Per-Stream (Media)
By 90X Double Side
Tue Jul 16th, 2002 at 03:27:14 AM EST
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MPEG LA, the association of the owners of patents relevant to MPEG-4 video, has released a new license which only requires broadcasters to pay royalties on a per-stream basis if they are charging viewers on a pay-per-view basis. This assumably comes from pressure from Apple Computer (among others) which refused to release the new version of it’s QuickTime software until the stream tax was removed.
Now, four years after the MPEG-4 format was approved in 1998, the final version of QuickTime 6 is available as the first product to support interoperable .mp4 files. Hopefully the way is paved for others to adopt the MPEG-4 standard without a stream tax.
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TCPA and Palladium: Sony Inside (Media)
By adamba
Tue Jul 9th, 2002 at 08:46:44 PM EST
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The recent publicity about the
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) and Microsoft's Palladium security initiative have portrayed them as Microsoft's latest weapon against the software industry.
This is incorrect. What they really represent are Hollywood's latest weapon against the personal computing industry.
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