News Headlines
Read the most recent news articles on media reform issues.
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Brad Jacobson, Raw Story, November 6.2009
The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.
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BastaDobbs.com, November 6.2009
BastaDobbs.com, a national, Latino-led coalition of organizations calling on CNN to fire Lou Dobbs for spreading misinformation and fear about immigrants and Latinos, announced that 100,000 people have joined them in demanding that Dobbs be dismissed from the network.
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John Poirier, Reuters, November 6.2009
The FCC said it was mulling whether changes are needed to regulations governing access to telephone lines largely controlled by telecom giants.
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Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch, November 6.2009
AT&T dominated the wireless market in the third quarter with a huge run up in iPhone sales, but rivals are stepping up their game as the crucial holiday season approaches.
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Kimberley Howson, Top 10 Broadband, November 6.2009
Frequencies currently carrying analogue television broadcasts could be used to provide broadband coverage in remote areas, it has been suggested.
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John Paczkowski, All Things Digital, November 6.2009
If AT&T's lawsuit over Verizon's allegedly misleading "there's a map for that" wasn't a public relations mistake to begin with, it will be by the time Verizon gets through with it. Responding to the suit, Verizon's, Jeffrey Nelson used it to stoke public perception that AT&T's network is inferior to Verizon's.
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James Limbach, ConsumerAffairs.com, November 6.2009
The Department of Transportation and the FCC are launching a joint effort to evaluate technologies that may help curb the dangerous epidemic of distracted driving.
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Marguerite Reardon, CNet, November 6.2009
Verizon Wireless said it will offer customers who want Internet access on-the-go a prepaid wireless broadband option for their laptops.
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Ashley Harrell, SF Weekly, November 6.2009
When the New York Times ran its debut Bay Area section, the section was short and the news stories weren't news to savvy locals. Still, the addition of sophisticated prefixes to names were enjoyable. Perhaps things would get better with time? Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bay Area section, which appears to have peeped at its predecessor's section and essentially reproduced it, only with financial flair.
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Michael Hiestand, USA Today, November 6.2009
The widely reported possibility that Comcast will take over NBC Universal raises lots of new TV sports scenarios, including the fun notion that it would be big enough to pick a fair fight with the omnivorous ESPN.

