Web Radio Expected to Keep Playing
Last-minute legislation permits negotiated royalty rates for small Webcasters.
By Michelle Madigan
"WASHINGTON — Small Webcasters expect to keep streaming their music, with Congress giving them a break on the royalty rates imposed on online radio stations."
It seems AFL-CIO is buddy-buddy with those who oppose web radio. !@#$% UNIONS!!! I guess hosing the steel industry in the US wasn’t enough damage for them.
Artists willing to kill webcasting for a check that may total $0?
By Kurt Hanson
“Apparently, the biggest potential block to HR 5469 – the bill that would have created a six-month delay and cooling off period – is the AFL-CIO objecting on behalf of recording artists. “
The terrorism hoax in South Florida seemed to be the start of a game of “Telephone” amongst the TV news stations, with the initial information getting more and more distorted with each telling. If we want a really free press we should be aware of these (sometimes egregious) errors. Yet another reason to turn off the TV…
TV dots airwaves with inaccuracies
…a wretched performance — worse yet, a wretched performance that dragged on for eight hours, terrorizing South Florida and smearing the daylights out of three medical students who can be counted on to contribute heavily to the next edition of the travel guide What Sucks About South Florida.
This article by Charles Krauthammer is valuable not for Krauthammer's support for an attack on Iraq (which I oppose) but with the journalistic games the New York Times is playing in its campaign against the invasion of Iraq. The NYT is an opinionated paper, and this is a good case-study in how it has been going about influencing public opinion not just with editorials (which are a great addition to a paper) but by selectively shading and presenting the facts (which is incompatible with freedom).
I really hope this didn't come as a shock to anyone.
Idealized Women in TV Ads Make Girls Feel Bad
By Alan Mozes
"TV commercials that depict idealized images of rail-thin feminine beauty can send young female viewers–particularly those who place great importance on their appearance–into an immediate tailspin of increased anger and body dissatisfaction, Australian researchers say."
"'Viewing television commercials containing images of the unrealistic thin-ideal for women caused adolescent girls to feel less confident, more angry and more dissatisfied with their weight and appearance,' said study lead author Duane Hargreaves of Flinders University in South Australia."