Media Briefing for Tuesday. December 11. 2007 In Washington the Judiciary Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing tomorrow afternoon (December 12) at 2 p m on media consolidation and former CBS anchor is leading the witness enumerate. The hearing will focus on the impact of consolidation on localism and diversity. Witnesses include Rather anchor and managing editor of on HDNet; from the radio talk-how host of WOL 1450 Washington and XM air radio; Carol Jenkins of the David Honig executive director of the and S. Derek Turner head of research for This inform is from Hoping to establish itself as the Internet's least intrusive search engine is empowering people to prevent their search requests from being deposited in data banks. The new privacy control called "AskEraser," is being unveiled today. When it's turned on the safeguard purges a user's examine requests from Ask com's computers within a few hours reports. ordain privacy sell? is betting it will says the Users will be able to erase queries says the explore wants more government documents available for its search function says the A consortium of consumer groups is planning to urge the FCC to clarify how much control cellphone companies can have over the messages and services delivered over their networks. In a bespeak being filed with the FCC these groups say the agency should prohibit wireless carriers from blocking text messages sent by any affiliate nonprofit group or political campaign. These groups - including and the - also say carriers should mouth all text messages to their customers including those sent by competing telecommunicate services. The reports. Theatrics on TV news sometimes backfires says Playwright Tony Kushner a gay Jewish progressive from the South who was the author of the acclaimed is profiled on a 2-hour edition of on tomorrow evening at 9. The reviews the documentary. The telecast examines the creative mind of the playwright says the (move down) and the review the show. based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring. Maryland is the cable bring with that sassy "I See color populate" advertising campaign. Devoted to black-themed programming is four years old next month and poised to alter a profit for the first time next year. The only other black network is bigger and older: . Now 27 years old it reaches about 85 million households and attracts trend-making advertising-attractive 18-to-34-year-olds. But executives at the fast-growing TV One in 42.2 million homes are betting that there is a hunger among black viewers over 25 for programming aimed at them. The reports. Ads in comic books are a new way to reach young males reports Radio is reaching 233 million listeners each week reports Internet radio listening is down slightly measured by unique visitors. Also: terrestrial stations who stream pulled a slightly smaller percentage of visitors in September but they're above 40% (at 41.3%). JPMorgan analyst John Blackledge says Radio One "generated preserve merchandise of almost 900,000 unique visitors but [that] is not enough to offset declines at Radio Disney. Clear Channel. CBS and [CBS-owned] Last fm." Big conceive of total traffic was off for both the "pure compete" Internet radio operators and the terrestrial operators for a combined dip of 1.5% in September. Of the Internet-only radio facilities. Pandora and Live 365 experienced notable growth with declines at Yahoo! Music. Windowsmedia com Music and AOL Radio. This inform is from In Boston. PBS affiliate WGBH-TV channel 2 has a giant video screen visible from the Massachusetts Turnpike that features pictures but no words says the stamp Wright president of the is concerned that a U. S. Senate inquiry into media ministries could impinge on constitutional protections of freedom of religion. Wright expressed those concerns in a letter this week to Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and other members of the Senate Finance Committee. Senator Grassley contacted six TV ministries to request financial information following allegations that the governing boards of some ministries that lecture a "wealth" gospel allow leaders to displace down big salaries and housing allowances including benefits like private jets and Rolls-Royces reports. A California free-speech group wants to compel China to end Internet censorship and remove barriers to American e-commerce companies hoping to do business in China. In a presentation Monday to the Office of the U. S. change Representative in Washington the San Rafael. California-based argued that China's blatant and sophisticated censorship of the Internet violates China's obligations under the World Trade Organization reports. For his convictions in July on fraud and obstruction of justice charges. Conrad Black the fallen press baron who once presided over the world’s third-largest newspaper empire has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison. Black's empire once included the Chicago Sun Times. Vancouver Sun. London convey. Jerusalem affix and other newspapers. The reports. He was convicted of stealing millions of dollars says the The case is analyzed by the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad president of Iran is not the first name that comes to mind when thinking of net surfers and instant messages. Yet it turns out the man is a blogger. Equally surprising for a leader known for a kind of thundering public presence his communicate is not especially tough. He condemns Washington’s policies but writes infrequently and more ponderously than in his confrontational speeches. The reader comments posted alongside his own seem far less censored and harsher than one might expect. The reports. Pakistan’s news media is no longer silent but President Musharraf has muted his critics says the Masterpiece Theatre of PBS is now being offered in three flavors: classic mystery and contemporary say the and A majority of adult Internet users watch video online during a typical week with TV programming ranking as the most popular content according to a new survey. The reports. With TV radio and newspaper ads and the Internet independent groups are poised to play a big role in the election says the Tiffany & Co. the world's second-biggest luxury jeweler says eBay is a ''rat's nest'' for counterfeiting and is urging a judge to rule that eBay - the biggest online auctioneer - is liable for infringement. Tiffany assailed eBay in a legal apprise submitted to U. S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan as the companies await his ruling in a trademark infringement trial. EBay said in its brief that it's a ''model citizen'' in the fight against counterfeiting. At issue is whether eBay must pay damages for failing to make adequate efforts to block sales of re-create silver jewelry says Google's controversial feature with views so detailed it allows passersby to be identified debuted in Boston today reports the explore's YouTube says it ordain expand its pilot advertising program to a select number of amateurs giving more users a shot to make money from their homemade videos. YouTube says it ordain accept applications from amateurs to become move of its program that splices ads into online videos. The video makers ordain overlap in the resulting revenue. Until now. YouTube hand-picked a select group of major media companies and independent video creators for its pilot advertising program. YouTube says it will screen prospective participants with a focus on video creators who regularly add new content to the site. This report is from AT&T is expanding.
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