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Congratulations FVTV!

November 7, 2007 – 9:59 pm

FVTV Fort Vancouver Television, channel 11 is the little station that could. Tonight, the cable commission awarded FVTV, our local public cable access provider, a $206,000 grant to completely revitalize their equipment.
Two years ago, FVTV was in no condition to be awarded such a grant. Through the extremely hard work of people such as Mark [...]

By Aneurin | Also posted in Local issues | Comments (0)

FCC Public Hearing on Media Ownership

November 6, 2007 – 8:32 pm

[ November 9, 2007; 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Mike Ellison from Vancouver for Peace sends us this message:

Dear Peacemakers, I don’t usually pass on these alerts, but I know that many of you care deeply about media ownership. This is from FreePress.net. If you plan to drive and have room for passengers, you could write to this list with your [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Corporate control, Events | Comments (0)

Waldman tears Russert a new one

November 1, 2007 – 12:12 pm

Over at American Prospect, republished by Common Dreams, I could not help but notice this article, it being a fact that major media control of our country is a major concern to me. Paul Waldman talks about the sound bites that pretend to be Democratic Presidential debates and Russert’s question to the candidates [...]

By bushtool | Also posted in 2008 Election, Religion | Comments (2)

KXLY: One hundred thousand dollars?

October 31, 2007 – 7:35 pm

I need everyone to please watch this video from tonight’s KXLY 5 o’clock report (you might need to click the “play” button twice):
Video Launch Here
About 40% of the way through, there’s the following (my transcription):
“Investigators claim Cody Castagna then blackmailed Curtis threatening to go public with their tryst, unless the representative handed over a hundred [...]

By Aneurin | Also posted in 18th Leg District | Comments (1)

Give a cat a home

October 28, 2007 – 11:08 am

Good things are happening at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington:
Southwest Washington successfully Raised the Roof at our 2007 Dinner & Auction Saturday, October 20th at the Hilton Vancouver Washington. The auction raised more than $1.27 million exceeding a $1 million endowment challenge to satisfy an anonymous pledge of $2 million towards the [...]

By bushtool | Also posted in Clark County, Columbian, The, Dept. of just Sayin' | Comments (1)

Radio host Rhodes hurt in fall, not attack

October 17, 2007 – 7:39 am

A case of pre-mature blog-u-lation, apparently:
Randi Rhodes, the Air America radio host who began her talk-show career on South Florida’s WIOD 610-AM, was injured Sunday night when she fell near her apartment on Manhattan’s East Side.
The circumstances of that fall were murky Tuesday. Monday night, Air America’s Jon Elliott announced on his show that [...]

By Rich | Comments (2)

What’s the Frequency, Randi?

October 16, 2007 – 8:01 am

Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes was mugged near her Manhattan apartment Sunday night, losing several teeth in a brutal attack that has knocked her off the air while she recuperates, fellow host Jon Elliott announced on his show early Tuesday morning.
“It is with sadness that tonight I inform you that my Air America colleague [...]

By Rich | Comments (5)

An Open Letter to KATU

October 11, 2007 – 8:08 am

What happened to you KATU?You used to be cool, sort of….I used to look at your website and occasionally your newscast, because I felt that it had - for a mainstream, major network affilliate - fairly balanced spin and a relatively small ratio of fear-mongering to actual news. You would send correspondents to anti-war [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Corporate control, Dept. of just Sayin' | Comments (0)

KATU Doesn’t Dig on Weird Portland

October 8, 2007 – 6:14 pm

KATU - usually our less shrill and moronic major media affiliate, perhaps either frustrated with no response to an open request, finally posted their story on the meme of What’s Weird About Portland.
Predictably, they disdainfully lump the ‘weird’ into one big gooey pile of racist skinheads, pedophiles, and anti-war protesters, along with the idea [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Dept. of just Sayin', Local issues, Miscellaneous | Comments (0)

FCC proposes ‘fake news’ fine

September 28, 2007 – 7:53 am

In a rare case of a Bush-era Federal agency doing its job, the Federal Communications Commission proposes waging a fine for networks running VNRs as genuine news.But before you get all excited, it’s a paltry sum;  a mere fraction of the cost of running an ad in the first place - and certainly much, much [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Corporate control, Culture | Comments (0)