11/19: Media Briefing for Thursday, November 19, 2009
There are layoffs at AP news desks across the nation, and some one-person correspondencies are being closed, including Mobile, Alabama and Albany, Georgia. (Gawker)
Online telecasts are being offered by WLIW21. (New York Times)
In an investigation, the newspaper delivery offices of New York City newspapers were raided. (Associated Press)
YouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage without increasing their payrolls. (Associated Press)
Senators blast Web sites for scamming customers. (Associated Press) (IDG News Service)
McAfee warns of a Cold War style computer attack.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Two Web sites selling Beatles songs will remain shut down. (Associated Press)
Fraudsters and China domain names. (IDG News Service)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a civil ontempt complaint against an online check-writing ervice, saying the company continues to allow customers to create and e-mail checks without verification of their identities. (IDG News Service)
Free Press, which opposes media consolidation, is calling on the FCC to disapprove the proposed takeover of NBC Universal by Comcast. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Will the FCC allow even more consolidation of broadcast stations? (Forbes)
Expect a lengthy FCC review of the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal. (TV News Check)
Key dates in the history of Comcast
(Associated Press)
Key dates in the history of NBC
(Associated Press) CBS and NBC have early ties to NBC. (Associated Press)
Comcast's NBC bid caps a decades-long rise.
(Associated Press)
Two of the most respected gay newpapers in the nation,the Washington Blade and Southern Voice of Atlanta have been shut down. (Washington Post) Washington Post) (New York Times) (Atlanta Journal Constitution) (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Former Washington Blade staffers a publishing a newsletter. (Save The Blade)
A New Hampshire radio talk show host has lost his show fter calling te Democratic party state chairman "faggot." (Nashua, New Hampshire Telegraph)
A new board for broadcasting history has been set up, the New
York Broadcasting History Board.
A new novel looks at the American War For Independence and includes two perspectives not heard very much until now: from that of the Native American and the slave points of view. The author is Jim Smith, executive editor of the Bristol Press and New Britain Herald in Connecticut. (The Laurel)
The Society of Professional Journalists is opposing any draconian crackdown on the Mirror, the student-run newspaper at Connecticut's Jesuit-run Fairfield University. (Stamford Advocate)
The U.S. State Department is deploring "assaults" on 3 Cuban bloggers. (Associated Press)
Most Americans still read newspapers.
(Media Daily News)
Marketing PBS children's shows without selling out the children. (Boston Globe)
A new bill in Congress would limit children's TV ads.
(Media daily News)
One of the founders of Los Angeles PBS station KCET channel 28, and a member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who strongly opposed advertising in PBS children's shows, Winter Horton, has died at age 80. (Los Angeles Times)
Public broadcasters oppose taking spectrum from broadcasters for broadband. (Broadcasting & Cable)
The FCC identifies barriers to the broadband spectrum proposal. (Associated Press)
Fox says the FCC policy on profanity is indefensible. (Broadcasting & Cable)
The brand name Tweeter is up for sale. (Hartford Courant)
China blocks Barack Obama's call for an open and free Internet. (Associated Press) President Obama told Chinese students an open Internet
makes the U.S. stronger.
(Associated Press) (New York Times)
The United Nations demands the removal of a poster critical of China's Internet censorship at an Internet conference in Egypt. (Associated Press)
Iranian media plans stir talk of an elite at the helm. (Associated Press)
California attorney general Jerry Brown is in a no-win situation involving the conservative video-taping at ACORN offices in California.
CNN decalres cyber-war on the liberal blogosphere. (Gawker)
The World Wide Web Foundation is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change. (IDG News Service)
A non-profit group is using the Web to pressure Chevron.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
The U.S. military employed cyber-tactics in the Iraq War. (San
Francisco Chronicle)
The Google phone may be data only.
(Washington Post)
Google relents with a revised book settlement. (Washington Post)
USA Today is testing an online edition at colleges.
Vonage is to settle investigations involving 32 states. (Associated Press)
Going high tech to track Alzheimer's patients.
(Associated Press)
The FBI kept a close eye on Studs Terkel for decades. (Associated Press)
IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain. (San Jose Mercury News)
Saying no to online drug ads. (San Jose Mercury News)
Apple deals another blow to Psystar. (PC World)
AT&T offers Cloud computer capacity. (Network World)
Home security systems ease remote monitoring.
(Associated Press)
A student newspaper runs a white supremacist ad.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Google advances multiple efforts to make the Web faster. (Network World)
Amazon web services offers development kit for its cloud platform. (Info World)
Internet addiction can harm real relationships. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Building an online bulwark to fend off identity fraud. (New York Times)
Attention loss feared as high tech rewires brain.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Adding a fee to the Shazam App invited a look at competing tools. (New York Times)
Among late-night TV talk show writers, few are women. (New York Times)
YouTube and Univision are getting together on programming. (New York Times)
The former Nickelodeon chief has iPhone plans. (New York Times)
Hulu enters music with EMI.
(New York Times)
Dell's out-of-town tryout for Smartphones. (New York Times)
American Express buys an online payments firm.
(New York Times)
The European ombudsman criticizes the inquiry into Intel. (New York Times)
Cellphone apps challenge the rise of e-readers.
(New York Times)
Luxury firms move to make the Web move for them.
(New York Times)
The future of Salesforce.com: Facebook, Twitter and the social networks. (New York Times)
MySpace is said to be in talks to acquire Imeem. (New York Times)
Is Palm's comeback losing steam?
(New York Times)
Cisco raises its bid for Tandberg of Norway.
(Reuters)
The California startup Glyde simplifies online sales of used media. (New York Times)
About half in the U.S. would pay for news, a study finds. (New York Times)
Eighty percent of U.S. consumers will not pay for online content.
(New York Times)
Is there a method in cellphone madness.
(New York Times)
Would Apple lose its cool over a gimmick?
(New York Times)
Apple is set to release its "Concierge" app to make scheduled appointments easier. (New York Times)
Barack Obama says he ahs never used Twitter. (New York Times)
The TV networks bolster their audiences with Facebook and Twitter. (Advertising
Age)
The official Google Chrome Extension Gallery is announced. (New York Times)
Rackspace says it is closing the gap with Amazon. (New York Times)
How will we keep supercomputing super? (New York Times)
With new presses, the New York Daily News is betting on the world of paper newspapers. (New York Times)
Online maps: everyman offers new directions. (New York Times)
Stitching cellphones takes an emotional toll. (San Jose Mercury News)
Sezmi introduces a new kind of TV. (San Jose Mercury News)
Fidel Castro is an analyst of U.S. politics in his Cuban column. (Associated Press)
Shepard Smith of the Fox News Channel is profiled. (Washington Post)
Lou Dobbs says his downfall at CNN began when Barack Obama became president. (New York daily News)
Will Lou Dobbs run for the U.S. senate from New Jersey? (New York Post)
The Sunday morning political TV talk shows have influence far beyond their
actual audiences. (Broadcasting & Cable)
A new movie, Pirate Radio, celebrates the pirate radio stations that played rock and roll and were located in ships in international waters, to
beam into the United Kingdom. The most famous was Radio Caroline, which began in 1964. There were others off the Netherlands and off Denmark.
MTV has acquired the rights to the new Michael Jackson movie This Is.It. (All Access)
Mel Karmazin says he is staying at Sirius XM satellite radio. (All Access)
Morley Safer of CBS's 60 Minutes has donated his papers to the University Of Texas at Austin.
The Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are hitting the road together. (All Access)
Garrison Keillor of NPR is conducting a tour.
(Washington Post)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in Oakland, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh brings out the tourists. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Localism is keeping some AM radio stations profitable. (Radio World)
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times disputes a bias claim. (Washington Post) (Washington Post)
Former New York Times TV critic John O'Connor is dead at 76. (New York Times)
CBS is launching a turn-of-decade project.
(Associated Press)
Clothing chain founder Sy Syms -- a familiar voice on radio and TV for many decades, has passed away at age 83. (Bergen Record)
California approves new standards on energy hungry TV sets. (Los Angeles Times)
DirecTV picks Pepsico's CEO to be the DirecTV CEO.
(Los Angeles Times) (Associated Press)
The CEO of EchoStar steps down.
(Associated Press)
The broadband stimulus program risks fraud and waste.
(Los Angeles Times)
Students can research books on iPods, but will they? (Los Angeles Times)
Service lets users build own iPhone, RIM, Windows apps. (IDG News Service)
A New Jersey man going to jail in attacks on Scientology sites. (Associated Press)
The European Union has clsoed 54 Web sites for consumer law violations. (IDG News Service)
Five Expectations for Google's Chrome OS Event. (PC World)
3-D will save the high performance computer industry, says Intel's chief technology officer. (Network World)
Congress is cracking down on Internet marketing companies. (Los Angeles Times)
The dangers of marketing drugs online. (Los Angeles Times)
U.K. police have announced arrests in Zeus banking malware. (IDG News Service)
Online telecasts are being offered by WLIW21. (New York Times)
In an investigation, the newspaper delivery offices of New York City newspapers were raided. (Associated Press)
YouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage without increasing their payrolls. (Associated Press)
Senators blast Web sites for scamming customers. (Associated Press) (IDG News Service)
McAfee warns of a Cold War style computer attack.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Two Web sites selling Beatles songs will remain shut down. (Associated Press)
Fraudsters and China domain names. (IDG News Service)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a civil ontempt complaint against an online check-writing ervice, saying the company continues to allow customers to create and e-mail checks without verification of their identities. (IDG News Service)
Free Press, which opposes media consolidation, is calling on the FCC to disapprove the proposed takeover of NBC Universal by Comcast. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Will the FCC allow even more consolidation of broadcast stations? (Forbes)
Expect a lengthy FCC review of the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal. (TV News Check)
Key dates in the history of Comcast
(Associated Press)
Key dates in the history of NBC
(Associated Press) CBS and NBC have early ties to NBC. (Associated Press)
Comcast's NBC bid caps a decades-long rise.
(Associated Press)
Two of the most respected gay newpapers in the nation,the Washington Blade and Southern Voice of Atlanta have been shut down. (Washington Post) Washington Post) (New York Times) (Atlanta Journal Constitution) (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Former Washington Blade staffers a publishing a newsletter. (Save The Blade)
A New Hampshire radio talk show host has lost his show fter calling te Democratic party state chairman "faggot." (Nashua, New Hampshire Telegraph)
A new board for broadcasting history has been set up, the New
York Broadcasting History Board.
A new novel looks at the American War For Independence and includes two perspectives not heard very much until now: from that of the Native American and the slave points of view. The author is Jim Smith, executive editor of the Bristol Press and New Britain Herald in Connecticut. (The Laurel)
The Society of Professional Journalists is opposing any draconian crackdown on the Mirror, the student-run newspaper at Connecticut's Jesuit-run Fairfield University. (Stamford Advocate)
The U.S. State Department is deploring "assaults" on 3 Cuban bloggers. (Associated Press)
Most Americans still read newspapers.
(Media Daily News)
Marketing PBS children's shows without selling out the children. (Boston Globe)
A new bill in Congress would limit children's TV ads.
(Media daily News)
One of the founders of Los Angeles PBS station KCET channel 28, and a member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who strongly opposed advertising in PBS children's shows, Winter Horton, has died at age 80. (Los Angeles Times)
Public broadcasters oppose taking spectrum from broadcasters for broadband. (Broadcasting & Cable)
The FCC identifies barriers to the broadband spectrum proposal. (Associated Press)
Fox says the FCC policy on profanity is indefensible. (Broadcasting & Cable)
The brand name Tweeter is up for sale. (Hartford Courant)
China blocks Barack Obama's call for an open and free Internet. (Associated Press) President Obama told Chinese students an open Internet
makes the U.S. stronger.
(Associated Press) (New York Times)
The United Nations demands the removal of a poster critical of China's Internet censorship at an Internet conference in Egypt. (Associated Press)
Iranian media plans stir talk of an elite at the helm. (Associated Press)
California attorney general Jerry Brown is in a no-win situation involving the conservative video-taping at ACORN offices in California.
CNN decalres cyber-war on the liberal blogosphere. (Gawker)
The World Wide Web Foundation is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change. (IDG News Service)
A non-profit group is using the Web to pressure Chevron.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
The U.S. military employed cyber-tactics in the Iraq War. (San
Francisco Chronicle)
The Google phone may be data only.
(Washington Post)
Google relents with a revised book settlement. (Washington Post)
USA Today is testing an online edition at colleges.
Vonage is to settle investigations involving 32 states. (Associated Press)
Going high tech to track Alzheimer's patients.
(Associated Press)
The FBI kept a close eye on Studs Terkel for decades. (Associated Press)
IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain. (San Jose Mercury News)
Saying no to online drug ads. (San Jose Mercury News)
Apple deals another blow to Psystar. (PC World)
AT&T offers Cloud computer capacity. (Network World)
Home security systems ease remote monitoring.
(Associated Press)
A student newspaper runs a white supremacist ad.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Google advances multiple efforts to make the Web faster. (Network World)
Amazon web services offers development kit for its cloud platform. (Info World)
Internet addiction can harm real relationships. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Building an online bulwark to fend off identity fraud. (New York Times)
Attention loss feared as high tech rewires brain.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Adding a fee to the Shazam App invited a look at competing tools. (New York Times)
Among late-night TV talk show writers, few are women. (New York Times)
YouTube and Univision are getting together on programming. (New York Times)
The former Nickelodeon chief has iPhone plans. (New York Times)
Hulu enters music with EMI.
(New York Times)
Dell's out-of-town tryout for Smartphones. (New York Times)
American Express buys an online payments firm.
(New York Times)
The European ombudsman criticizes the inquiry into Intel. (New York Times)
Cellphone apps challenge the rise of e-readers.
(New York Times)
Luxury firms move to make the Web move for them.
(New York Times)
The future of Salesforce.com: Facebook, Twitter and the social networks. (New York Times)
MySpace is said to be in talks to acquire Imeem. (New York Times)
Is Palm's comeback losing steam?
(New York Times)
Cisco raises its bid for Tandberg of Norway.
(Reuters)
The California startup Glyde simplifies online sales of used media. (New York Times)
About half in the U.S. would pay for news, a study finds. (New York Times)
Eighty percent of U.S. consumers will not pay for online content.
(New York Times)
Is there a method in cellphone madness.
(New York Times)
Would Apple lose its cool over a gimmick?
(New York Times)
Apple is set to release its "Concierge" app to make scheduled appointments easier. (New York Times)
Barack Obama says he ahs never used Twitter. (New York Times)
The TV networks bolster their audiences with Facebook and Twitter. (Advertising
Age)
The official Google Chrome Extension Gallery is announced. (New York Times)
Rackspace says it is closing the gap with Amazon. (New York Times)
How will we keep supercomputing super? (New York Times)
With new presses, the New York Daily News is betting on the world of paper newspapers. (New York Times)
Online maps: everyman offers new directions. (New York Times)
Stitching cellphones takes an emotional toll. (San Jose Mercury News)
Sezmi introduces a new kind of TV. (San Jose Mercury News)
Fidel Castro is an analyst of U.S. politics in his Cuban column. (Associated Press)
Shepard Smith of the Fox News Channel is profiled. (Washington Post)
Lou Dobbs says his downfall at CNN began when Barack Obama became president. (New York daily News)
Will Lou Dobbs run for the U.S. senate from New Jersey? (New York Post)
The Sunday morning political TV talk shows have influence far beyond their
actual audiences. (Broadcasting & Cable)
A new movie, Pirate Radio, celebrates the pirate radio stations that played rock and roll and were located in ships in international waters, to
beam into the United Kingdom. The most famous was Radio Caroline, which began in 1964. There were others off the Netherlands and off Denmark.
MTV has acquired the rights to the new Michael Jackson movie This Is.It. (All Access)
Mel Karmazin says he is staying at Sirius XM satellite radio. (All Access)
Morley Safer of CBS's 60 Minutes has donated his papers to the University Of Texas at Austin.
The Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are hitting the road together. (All Access)
Garrison Keillor of NPR is conducting a tour.
(Washington Post)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in Oakland, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh brings out the tourists. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Localism is keeping some AM radio stations profitable. (Radio World)
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times disputes a bias claim. (Washington Post) (Washington Post)
Former New York Times TV critic John O'Connor is dead at 76. (New York Times)
CBS is launching a turn-of-decade project.
(Associated Press)
Clothing chain founder Sy Syms -- a familiar voice on radio and TV for many decades, has passed away at age 83. (Bergen Record)
California approves new standards on energy hungry TV sets. (Los Angeles Times)
DirecTV picks Pepsico's CEO to be the DirecTV CEO.
(Los Angeles Times) (Associated Press)
The CEO of EchoStar steps down.
(Associated Press)
The broadband stimulus program risks fraud and waste.
(Los Angeles Times)
Students can research books on iPods, but will they? (Los Angeles Times)
Service lets users build own iPhone, RIM, Windows apps. (IDG News Service)
A New Jersey man going to jail in attacks on Scientology sites. (Associated Press)
The European Union has clsoed 54 Web sites for consumer law violations. (IDG News Service)
Five Expectations for Google's Chrome OS Event. (PC World)
3-D will save the high performance computer industry, says Intel's chief technology officer. (Network World)
Congress is cracking down on Internet marketing companies. (Los Angeles Times)
The dangers of marketing drugs online. (Los Angeles Times)
U.K. police have announced arrests in Zeus banking malware. (IDG News Service)
