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Big media tests the TVoIP waters with free premium content
2008-05-29 22:20:00 Here’s an undeniable fact broadcasters and pay TV operators are going to have to face - sooner rather than later: Downloaded and streaming content will continue displace an increasing number of the eyeballs they once kept easily in their domain. The main reason is simple, provides a direct channel from the producer / distributor ...
By: Third Pipe
RurrRooh!
2008-05-28 22:14:00 You know there are just some days it does not pay to be a CEO! This is one of those days, if you happen to be General Instrument a maker of settop boxes. – The set-top box, a necessary appendage for millions of cable television customers for decades, is moving toward extinction. A leading television manufacturer, Sony ...
By: Third Pipe
A Dumb Pipe What-If?
2008-05-15 01:00:00 We always keep saying here at ThirdPipe that dump pipe is the ‘thing’. We usually get slapped for it by our peers. Everyone thinks that content is critical. No doubt it is, because our second rule is nobody buys dumb pipe just for pipe. But there is a rational consideration for our position. We find ...
By: Third Pipe
Propaganda Story Still Squelched by Big Media
2008-05-09 16:45:00 AlterNet Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect. This trove includes the documents pried out of the Pentagon by David Barstow and used as the basis for his stunning investigation that appeared in the New York Times on April 20, 2008. The Pentagon program, which clearly violated U.S. law against covert government propaganda, embedded more than 75 retired military officers -- most of them with financial ties to war contractors -- into the TV networks as "message surrogates" for the Bush Administration. To date, every major commercial TV network has failed to report this story, covering up their complicity and keeping the existence of this scandal from their audiences.
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Cultur
2008-05-03 21:31:00 Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity # Author: Lawrence Lessig # Format:PDF 2.3MB# Page Count: 368 pages# Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (March 25, 2004)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 1594200068# ISBN-13: 978-1594200069From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of idea...
More Big Media Love For McCain
2008-04-16 19:06:00 I?d like to extend a big hat tip to Adam Blickstein at Democracy Arsenal for this little gem from ?Senator Honor and Virtue? last night on ?Hardball? (I?ll try to have more to say about Chris Matthews later, by the way - and is it my imagination, or is McCain slowly morphing into Ed Snider, or is it the other way around?)?MCCAIN: We can look back at the past and argue about whether we should have gone to war or not, whether we should have invaded or not, and that?s a good academic argument.I don?t see anything ?academic? about these numbers, I should point out.MCCAIN: So what?s an area of disagreement? Climate change. Climate change. I believe that climate change is real. I think we have to act...This takes you to more information on McCain?s atrocious voting record, in particular the following??Out of 535 Members of Congress, John McCain is the only one who chose to miss every single key environmental vote scored by the League of Conservation Voters last year. When it came time to ...
News : Microsoft seen as winner as big media circles Yahoo
2008-04-10 22:56:00 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc may have played its top two cards by pulling out possible deals with AOL and Google, but it does not seem to have changed Wall Street's view that Microsoft will eventually win the takeover battle. Yahoo announced on Wednesday a test to outsource Web search advertising to Google Inc. Sources say the test is part of a planned three-way alliance to combine Yahoo with Time Warner Inc's AOL instead of Microsoft Corp. But hours later, the world's largest software company appeared to trump Yahoo's announcement as the New York Times reported that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp was in talks to join Microsoft's $42.3 billion bid for the Web pioneer. "Everyone is just exploring. The best option is to accept the Microsoft deal," said fund manager Mike Binger at Thrivent Financial in Minneapolis, which owns small stakes in Yahoo and Microsoft. Binger said an AOL-Yahoo merger made no sense. "I just see Yahoo as a mature brand and AOL as a d...
TVoIP, Ante Up!
2008-04-08 16:23:00 Well TVoIP has a new partner, CBS. They are now releasing many original series in a high quality format available right over the net. The quality if better than what Hulu provides. So the bar has been raised on TVoIP content. For example the entire 3 years of Star Trek classic is online here. ...
By: Third Pipe
Enough is Enough!
2008-04-08 16:06:00 We here at ThirdPipe are big Google boosters. They provide services we doubt would even exist without them being around. One of their most popular features is Google Maps. They have Street View as a component of that service. There is a problem though. Street View could be a source of infringement. Google has ...
By: Third Pipe
First They Came for the J?..
2008-04-07 04:53:00 Big Brother has finally arrived my friends. But the threat comes not from the government but from corporations. They go by names like Knology, and NebuAd. They pray to the altar of profit at any cost. How do we know they do so? They slither in the shadows not wanting to be known that ...
By: Third Pipe
This pay per view download will self destruct in 24 hours! How Hollywood en
2008-03-24 20:43:00 If you want to stop piracy, don’t do things that encourage it. Im my life at the moment, it is difficult to watch an entire movie in a single setting, which is the best reason for a Netflix subscription - no late fees if I keep a DVD for a week. I’m not that ...
By: Third Pipe
CBC adopts Bittorent for DRM contrent distribution
2008-03-19 21:25:00 Canadian access provider Rogers management must be throwing a fit right now. It’s alledged that they have been pretty aggressive in efforts to reduce Bittorrent traffic. On March 24, CBC will use BitTorrent to distribute this year’s broadcast of Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister. This will make Canada the first country in North America to ...
By: Third Pipe
CBC adopts Bittorrent for DRM free content distribution
2008-03-19 21:25:00 Canadian access provider Rogers management must be throwing a fit right now. It’s alledged that they have been pretty aggressive in efforts to reduce Bittorrent traffic. On March 24, CBC will use BitTorrent to distribute this year’s broadcast of Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister. This will make Canada the first country in North America to ...
By: Third Pipe
Study Results: Big Media under reports Science and Education
2008-03-18 16:49:00 Big media’s cable news channels are facing more competition from the cloud than ever, and there’s more to come. Your humble admin has a theory why the online world has been so effective in competing with the sources that are so much easier to access via chairside remote control. In a recent study of ...
By: Third Pipe
Clueless Big Label Music seeks protection money from ISP?s
2008-03-14 00:37:00 Before I get to the news item, I offer a short history lesson on the big music industry. The industry’s business model has always been about acquiring the rights to material cheaply and reselling the product eternally. They have never been interested in paying the typical artist anything. Sure there are exceptions, usually the most ...
By: Third Pipe
Not Worth Big Media?s Time
2008-02-26 18:04:00 This journalist, Michael Totten, is in Iraq covering the war. He wrote this piece about find a cache of buried weapons. Most of the American troops in the Fallujah area are Marines, but these were regular Army soldiers and Military Police officers culled from the Texas National Guard. They and the Iraqi Police officers have ...
Big Media Love for the Big Turnaround
2008-02-13 16:23:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - More on the theme of a widening universe of folks noticing these winning Caps: an overview of the Bruce Boudreau overhaul of the Caps’ offense from USA Today today and a profile of Alexander Ovechkin in today’s New York Times. In the USA Today account Brooks Laich offers an insightful ...
By: On Frozen Blog
I Call Bullshit
2008-02-08 16:34:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC_6175, originally... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com
The Greatest Grassroots Campaign in Political History: IGNORED BY BIG MEDIA
2008-01-28 14:11:00 Now that the internet has become the media channel of choice for the informed and the awakened, we are starting to see just how badly mainstream media reports the "News".If you havnt heard of Ron Paul, then blame big media. If i was a US citizen, i'd be voting Ron Paul. The Greatest Grassroots Campaign in Political History: IGNORED BY BIG MEDIA
The Greatest Grassroots Campaign in Political History: IGNORED BY BIG MEDIA
2008-01-27 03:31:00 The greatest grassroots campaign in the history of American politics has been summarily ignored and shunned by the large media. Yes, you read that right. The greatest grassroots campaign in the HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS. IGNORED BY THE MEDIA. The Ron Paul campaign is centered around a man who is not a media sensation or ...
By: Ponderthis...
The O?Reilly Factor
2008-01-17 16:25:00 Everyone needs to watch tonight’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor. Bill’s going to be doing a segment on the NY Times. Apparently, this Sunday, they’re going to be running with a story that claims vets returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are committing murders in record numbers. It seems this may a flat ...
Big Media Hits Georgia Radio Stations
2008-01-16 18:59:00 In what is becoming an increasingly disturbing trend, Cox Radio has announced the acquisition of five radio stations along the bustling I-85 corridor between Atlanta and Greenville. Five radio stations owned by the same conglomerate in a 60 mile corridor seems like overkill to me. This $60 million acquisition is dependent on FCC approval, but that ...
Big Media Consolidation, Part II
2007-12-21 00:00:00 Back in 2003, the FCC, under the Bush Administration, voted to alter the rules of media consolidation making it easier for the largest companies to swallow-up smaller competition: Citing a need to update the decades-old rules to reflect new sources...
The F.C.C. Loosens Restrictions on Big Media « The Political Inquirer
2007-12-19 00:32:00 The F.C.C. Loosens Restrictions on Big Media « The Political Inquirer In a controversial decision, F.C.C. commissioners voted to overturn a 32 year old ban on broadcaster ownership of newspapers. The new rules apply to the nation?s 20 largest media markets and were passed despite requests from the Senate to delay to vote. Click the link above ...
Stop Big Media!
2007-12-17 12:32:00 Do you remember Dan Rather asking questions or making comments like this? Share This
By: Gormanfilms
Stop Big Media By Christmas
2007-12-15 23:39:00 Consolidation for Christmas StopBigMedia.com is spreading the word about media consolidation. Watch their video. Visit their site. http://garlinggauge.com/videos/-bigmedia.flv Stop Big Media Play the game. More on Media, Politics ©2007 Garling Gauge. All Rights Reserved..
By: Garling Gauge
Fighting Big Media With Potterwatch
2007-12-13 18:19:00 "In his rush to gut the nation's longstanding media ownership limits, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has not only angered the vast majority of Americans who think Big Media is already big enough....read more
By: Communati.com
Help Wanted
2007-12-01 01:01:00 WANTED Hip, young, cool people to be new internet environmental reporters for CBS. So, if you’re energetic, funny, creative and smart come join the CBS family. Hope you’re not afraid of flying because you will be traveling extensively across this great country of ours. Knowledge of the “envro beat” not required.
BMJ - Big media
2007-11-23 22:56:00 The next round of media consolidation has begun. Now, the FCC wants to allow the same company who owns your local radio or television station to now also own your local newspaper. One of the problems with modern media is consolidation. We hear the same recycled talking points from every direction. ...
Media Study
2007-11-02 15:14:00 A new study done by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy has found that the media is biased towards Democrats. Democrats are not only favored in the tone of the coverage. They get more coverage period. This is particularly evident on morning news shows, ...
More Liberal, Left, Big Media, Democratic BS
2007-10-09 19:44:00 Do I love a story like this below? Are the liberals, left, big media, Democrats and loonies just devoid of anything good? I just love this. And where do you think I found this little gem? You guessed it: my boy Rush has it as some background material for a monologue he did just recently. I love it!! read more
By: Communati.com
Why Big Media LOVES Bad Real Estate News
2007-10-05 19:28:00 There’s a great article written by Dillon Devereaux of the Triangle News in North Carolina regarding this topic. It’s one I’ve often wondered about…. I mean, when was the last time you heard Big Media showin’ a little love when it comes to real estate? When real estate is rolling, there’s a lot of muttering ...
Pirate Bay Vs. Big Media
2007-09-28 19:38:00 For a few years now, The Pirate Bay has built a small empire using the fact that Swedish law does not prevent what they do- they are essentially a search engine that leads to torrent files of copyrighted media- they don’t host it, they just link to it. They have successfully fought every single attempt ...
By: The AV Club Blog
Pirate Bay Vs. Big Media
2007-09-28 19:38:00 For a few years now, The Pirate Bay has built a small empire using the fact that Swedish law does not prevent what they do- they are essentially a search engine that leads to torrent files of copyrighted media- they don’t host it, they just link to it. They have successfully fought every single attempt by the MPAA, RIAA, and several other “Old Media” corporations to stop their activities. Their users even formed a political party, and they enjoy a massive audience and user base in Sweden and internationally. Recently, they announced that they have proof that the Big Media conglomerates have been paying hackers to try to take them down, and get this- they are taking them to court over it. TPB makes a living enabling the distribution of copyrighted works for free, then they take their victims to court for trying to stop them. Don’t get me wrong, what Big Media is doing is illegal, and two wrongs do not make a right, but there is just a small tinge of unfairness...
By: The AV Club Blog
Pirate Bay Vs. Big Media
2007-09-28 19:38:00 For a few years now, The Pirate Bay has built a small empire using the fact that Swedish law does not prevent what they do- they are essentially a search engine that leads to torrent files of copyrighted media- they don’t host it, they just link to it. They have successfully fought every single attempt ...
By: The AV Club Blog
Japanese players attract big media following
2007-09-04 17:58:00 Japanese players attract big media following
Haditha; Missed Murtha's Apology; Wasn't Even Reported in "big media"
2007-08-12 01:55:00 When it hit the headlines all the big boys reported it. The anchors were reporting about the atrocities our soldiers committed. Just like the Duke lacrosse players our boys were GUILTY. The soldiers in this deal were just wrong. All you had to do was ask John Murtha, who claims to be a great war veteran. Well,,,turns out they were not guilty. read more
By: Communati.com
Republicans Throw A Hissy Fit
2007-07-28 17:00:00 First it was the Democrats with the FNC debates and now some Republicans have yet to agree to the CNN/YouTube debate. Only two have agreed to take part, John McCain and Ron “9/11 Was Our Fault” Paul. Look, guys, I know the YouTube format for a debate is stupid but don’t act like the Democratic ...
How The Media View The Left vs. The Right
2007-07-27 21:44:00 I like to read the Opinion section of my local paper. Even though it’s a Left paper and most of the letters they publish are from Liberals who are expressing their disdain for President Bush or Republican in general. In today’s paper there was a letter sent to the editor that I quite ...
How Big Media Uses Technology And The Law To Lock Down Culture and Control
2007-07-13 18:58:00 This Pdf Version is available for free under a Creative Commons license. You may redistribute, copy, or otherwise reuse/remix this book provided that you do so for non-commercial purposes and credit Professor Lessig.
By: PDFTown.com
Big Oil and Big Media V. Hugo Chavez
2007-07-01 17:47:00 NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you. By Stephen Lendman 7/1/07 On June 27, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal vied for attention with feature stories on oil giants ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips "walking away from their multi-billion-dollar investments in Venezuela" as the Journal put it or standing "Defiant in Venezuela" as the Times headlined. Both papers can barely contain their displeasure over Hugo Chavez wanting Venezuela to have majority ownership of its own assets and no longer let Big (foreign) Oil investors plunder them. Those days are over. State oil company PDVSA is now majority shareholder with a 78% interest in four Orinoco joint ventures. That's up from previous stakes of from 30 to 49.9%. That's how it should be, but it can't stop the Journal and Times from whining about it. What ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips reject, oil giants Chevron, BP PLC, Total SA and ...
Stop the Big Media Takeover: Canadians for Democratic Media
2007-06-28 19:22:00 Lately it seems a large media merger is in the news all the time. Recently we've seen the mergers of CTVGlobeMedia with Chum, Canwest with Alliance Atlantis, and Quebecor with Osprey. Generally media convergence means less media choice for all Canadians. Media diversity is the cornerstone of democracy. But media ownership is more highly concentrated in Canada than almost anywhere else in the industrialized world. Almost all private Canadian television stations are owned by national media conglomerates and, because of increasing cross-ownership, most of the daily newspapers we read are owned by the same corporations that own television and radio stations.This means a handful of Big Media Conglomerates control what Canadians can most readily see, hear and read. It means less local and regional content, more direct control over content by owners and less analysis of the events that shape our lives. It also means less media choice for Canadians and fewer jobs for Canadian media workers...
By: Red Jenny
Our Big Media Lies
2007-06-22 15:12:00 It is not always clear as to whether the oft repeated misrepresentations by our media are deliberate lies or rather simply marks of bad educations and laziness as the same falsehoods are passed around and repeated over and over again. Let’s look at some of the most basic ones this summer season: 1) We hear over and ...
It?s Got To Be A Mistake
2007-06-19 05:19:00 Title: BBC accused of institutional ‘trendy left-wing’ bias NO! The hell you say. I like this part. Authors of the report called on the corporation to be more “open-minded” in the views it reflects and warned against “bias of elimination” which it branded “offensive”. Open minded. Something many Liberals have no concept of. Being open minded doesn’t only ...
People should remember that The Daily Show is still part of ?big media?.
2007-06-08 14:16:00 If you follow sites like digg.com, you would know that Ron Paul is HUGE with the college age crowd. That same crowd also loves The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stewart seems to be the guy who sees what’s really going on. He laughs at both sides and gives the impression ...
Missphit Clothing Hits the Big Media... Again
2007-05-22 18:44:00 Missphit is going from strength to strength. The success of their Spring line is evident from the recent media exposure their received on two leading magazines.In fact, Missphit has received yet another appearance in the popular Latina magazine, this time in the June issue. A very fresh spring Missphit tunic was included in a piece which gives tips to ladies wanting to wear shorts, the right way.Thirteen Minutes Magazine, a bi-cultural Asian American magazine also featured a Missphit top in a piece included in a recent issue.Kudos to Missphit for the great plus size style they're providing full figured women. Well done on your continues success. Win a $500 shopping spree from SizeAppeal! All you have to do to enter the lucky draw is to subscribe to our plus size clothing newsletter Loving My Curves. Contest ends June 10th. Subscribe today!
A Big Media Lauer Lovefest
2007-04-30 18:54:00 I try to avoid ?puff? pieces in the TV news biz, particularly regarding some of our corporate media icons, but I did find this column by David Bauder of USA Today about Matt Lauer of The Today Show.I have neither the time nor the desire to indulge in weekday morning television and thus can?t adequately critique Lauer in real time, so I?ll have to rely on Bauder when he says that Lauer?s questioning of his boss, MBC News President Steve Capus, about the whole Imus fiasco was ?direct, sharp, and to the point.?Oh, and I have to laugh when I read about how Lauer apparently was unforgiving to Capus, stating that ?NBC was caving to pressure from advertisers and some of the loudest voices? when it let go of Imus. See, that?s an issue when it happens to someone who is sympathetic to the Repugs, as Imus was by granting them air time so frequently, but it?s OK when, say, a large segment of this country goes utterly insane at the sight of Janet Jackson?s 40-year-old, diamond-studded, African-A...
Dobbs: Big media hide truth about immigration
2007-04-26 05:24:00 NEW YORK (CNN) — The Bush administration and the leadership of the Democratic Party are preparing to take another legislative leap at imposing a massive illegal alien amnesty on American citizens. Lou Dobbs — CNN And the mainstream media are complicit in advancing this thinly veiled blanket amnesty. Instead of asking and answering important questions about why ... |
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