The Media Drop

MosNews.com reports on a scary situation in Russia, where the Federal Security Service (FSB) is looking into “developing new rules for internet providers that would prevent the spread of extremist ideas on the Internet, register internet activity.”
Oh really?
It appears that Putin’s administration is becoming overly concerned with the possibility that “the people” could use the […]

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The more I hear about “crackdowns” on media indecency, the more I believe we are headed to a very scary place as Americans. What pushed me over the edge on a personal level in this issue was last Fall’s Saving Private Ryan debacle wherein a stack of ABC affiliates refused to run the film “because […]

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Ahead of an official announcement, word has skipped out that President Bush has named Kevin Martin the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Martin has been a commissioner at the FCC since 2001, after spending some time working for the president as an economic adviser.
While this doesn’t come as a surprise at all, […]

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BusinessWeek Online features a commentary this week by Catherine Yang about the future of the FCC after Chairman Michael Powell’s departure next month. Yet again, I’m surprised to find a piece that mentions Powell leaving, commissioner Kevin Martin possibly taking the top slot, but failing to mention the expected loss of commissioner Kathleen Abernathy […]

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Oliver Willis has posted an “Action Alert” on his site Tuesday afternoon for his readers to effectively ‘turf the FCC with a message regarding one word on uttered by Rush Limbaugh on the conservative talker’s radio program earlier today.
Somebody please call Jeff Jarvis. The use of the FCC for complaints should be […]

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Television-Advertising

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Newspapers-Mergers & Acquisitions

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Kim Chandler writes in Wednesday’s Birmingham News about an effort by Alabama state representative Gerald Allen to ban “novels with gay protagonists and college textbooks that suggest homosexuality is natural” from any library or institution that receives state funding.
If the bill became law, public school textbooks could not present homosexuality as a genetic trait and […]

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At Venezuelanalysis.com, David Coleman reports that new regulations passed in Venezuela this week not only clamp down on the broadcasting of sex and violence on the country’s media outlets, but that some political opposition groups believe that press freedom could be hindered due to the implementation of this law.

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Television-General

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