envelopeEmail to a friend | printerPrinter friendly | Earth Share

Counterspin
Jeff Chester on COPE Act, Ann-Louise Colgan on World Bank

CounterSpin (4/28/06-5/4/06)

Note: Please feel free to download the mp3 by right-clicking the mp3 link and choose the "Save Target As" function.
This week on CounterSpin: Articles and posts are flying around the web with headlines like 'The End of the Internet'. How serious is the threat of the disturbingly named "Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act" and what can you do about it? And, how does it connect to the threat currently facing public access TV? We'll talk about both issues with Jeff Chester, of the Center for Digital Democracy.

Also on the show: when activists used to protest the World Bank and IMF, many in the mainstream media took the lazy way out, pointing and laughing at the blue haired, street-marching anarchists. Nowadays, coverage of the World Bank has a different kind of problem—kid glove treatment of its new boss, former Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz. He's getting high marks from the press, but what do World Bank critics think? We'll speak to one-Ann Louise Colgan of the group Africa Action.

Links:

Center for Digital Democracy

Africa Action

See FAIR's Archives for more on:
Internet Media
Economy
IMF/World Bank
Law




FAIR Blog

Extra!
Current Cover

The Money Taboo in Health Reform Coverage: Industry donations to powerful players often go unmentioned
By Daniel Ward


FAIR Store