Canada Needs Foreign Ownership Curbs

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly Canadians and Americans have witnessed foreign ownership in our prospective countries.Statistics posted the left of this story from US Government agencies can...

Senate votes to close loophole in FCC media ownerships

The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. The unusual "resolution of disapproval," sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and 26 other...

Media Free: Mind Slave

context: World Press Freedom Day  Journalists all over the world celebrated the World Press Freedom today as the 3 May has been universally adopted as the day for media people to observe. The universalization of the press freedom day definitely does contain a message: to...

Adobe Photoshops License Agreement after User Complaints

A reviewer for CNET found a rather objectionable clause in the EULA (end-user license agreement) for the newly-released Photoshop Express. Another blogger contacted Adobe directly, and, as a result, Adobe is to post...

A Discussion of Race : McKinney Reponds

" A Discussion of Race Worth Having by Cynthia McKinney March 18, 2008 Much has been made around the edges of this campaign about the issue of race. Sadly, nothing has been made of the public policy exigencies that...

New System Frame of Cap-and-Trade:A Post-Kyoto Economics

A new system frame of global economic and political benefit negotiations for post-Kyoto was proposed recently by an independent Chinese economist group-Greency Group. It published in the start issue of Greency Magazine (Dec. 16, 2007). This unaided research of environmental...

Chomsky on World Ownership

"Chomsky on World Ownership Michael Shank | January 23, 2008 Editor: John Feffer Email this page to a friend Comment on this article Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On January 15, Michael Shank...

FCC to Green Light $19.5 Billion Sale of Clear Channel

Recent reports indicate that American media giant Clear Channel is set for a merger with a private investment group. "The FCC appears set to give its approval to Clear Channel’s (NYSE: CCU) $19.5 billion sale to two private equity firms. Citing an agency official, AP...

Family claims back 'Van Gogh notebook'

"A Greek family has claimed ownership of a notebook they believe to contain early sketches by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh missing since the First World War. Among the host of images contained within its pages...

Stereogum owners sell company for piece of BuzzNet

Not sure how or if this will affect the Stereogum experience. Any bets?"December 7, 2007 -- The owners of hipster music Web site Stereogum, which include former AOL executive Bob Pittman, former MTV digital guru...

First Nation ruling could send 'ripples' through treaty deals

Finally a Judge with common sense, after all it has always been traditionally First Nations land in the first place, You really cannot argue that fact, history proves it without a shadow of a doubt. Who better to...

Government allocates Rp300 bln for subsidized housing ownership credits

Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - Public Housing Affairs Minister M Yusuf Asyari said the government had allocated funds amounting to Rp300 billion in 2007 for subsidized housing ownership credits. "The allocated funds were fully used up by late September 2007," the minister...

KPPU declares Temasek guilty of cross-share ownership

"In its decision read out at the KPPU office here on Monday, the commission also ordered Temasek to pay a fine of Rp25 billion and dispose of shares in Indosat or Telkomsel no later than two years after the verdict has come into permanent legal force. Temasek was also ordered...

Cuba's Raul Castro unveils aircraft ownership reform

"Published on Saturday, November 17, 2007 HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Interim leader Raul Castro has unveiled arguably the most significant economic reform since taking the helm in communist Cuba, announcing that in some cases aircraft can be privately owned. It is major news in a...

Bill Moyers Journal

Michael Copps is one of 5 FCC commisioners and he is extremely encouraging, considering the state of American Media.  Bill Moyers, for PBS, is the interviewer."BILL MOYERS: You said in a recent speech that-- that America's playing Russian roulette with all of our media....

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