studying the media ecosystem
If the proposed federal shield were already law, Steve Job (r)could have used the courts, not cash, to silence the blogger Nick Ciarell (l).
After a three-year legal fight Apple has silenced a product-rumor web site called Think Secret. A Wired News article suggests that the site’s founder, 22-year-old Harvard student Nick Ciarelli, sold the site to Apple, which shut it down. [...]
The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled a sixth hearing in its ongoing media cross-ownership proceedings, giving five days notice to the general public, and thus corroborating fears that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has the votes (a 3-2 republican majority) to let mass media consolidate further by amending or repealing the current rules meant to discourage daily newspapers from owning television stations [...]
This icon is from Chinese Law Professor Blog where we learn that Chinese officials will no longer harvest organs from prisoners, except under certain circumstances. (details)
Waiting in an office in San Francisco recently I was thumbing through a book, ”The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China,” when a passage caught my eye. I copied it down. I assume these are [...]
Among the occasional contributors to MiniMediaGuy are entries from Der Cuz, aka Deep Cuz, a person whose geography shall remain secret, whose gender is of the belching, beer-guzzling sort, and whose genetic material contains, as does mine, a healthy dose of the pasta-twirling, hand-waving Italian-American DNA. The image (left) of the 1984 film, “The Pope of Greenwich [...]
Reporters without Borders is pressuring the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Guatemala later this week, to force China to adhere to the promises that it made in 2001 regarding treatment of dissidents. A letter from the international journalists’ group says:
“it is not too late to get the Chinese organizers, who are for the most part [...]
Poynter Institute commentator Fons Tuinstra, who is based in Shanghai, spotted a People’s Daily editorial that declared it is an issue “worth studying” how “the Internet has deeply changed the political environment in China . . . (forcing) . . . Chinese leaders to adapt.”
The editorial in People’s Daily, a semi-official organ of the Chinese [...]
The best way to improve the federal government is to encourage people inside the bowels of the bureaucracy to step forward and reveal fraudulent, wasteful or illegal activities. But government whistleblowers more often than not earn “15 minutes of fame and 40 years of misery” as one Pentagon insider told Mother Jones magazine in an [...]
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