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BIO
Joy Garnett is a painter based in New York. She appropriates news images from the Internet and re-invents them as paintings. Her subject is the apocalyptic-sublime landscape, as well as the digital image itself as cultural artifact in an increasingly technologized world. Her image research has resulted in online documentation projects, most notably The Bomb Project.
Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
extended network >
homepage:
http://joygarnett.com
The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org
First Pulse Projects
http://firstpulseprojects.net
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/
Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
extended network >
homepage:
http://joygarnett.com
The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org
First Pulse Projects
http://firstpulseprojects.net
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/
EFFector 17.26: Action Alert - Induce Act Hearing Rescheduled - Keep Up the Pressure! (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:39:46 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: EFFector 17.26: Action Alert - Induce Act Hearing Rescheduled - Keep Up
the Pressure!
EFFector Vol. 17, No. 26 July 15, 2004 donna@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424
In the 298th Issue of EFFector:
* Action Alert: Induce Act Hearing Rescheduled - Keep Up the Pressure!
* CAPPS II Cancelled: Department of Homeland Security Puts
Stake in the Heart of Passenger-Profiling System
* Citizens Unite for "Computer Ate My Vote" E-Voting Rallies
* The DoJ Report on PATRIOT: Style, Not Substance
* Audible (Not So) Magic
* Join EFF for Freedom Fest 2004 on August 4th - LinuxWorld
Attendees Invited!
* MiniLinks (19): Breaking Down Councilman
* Staff Calendar: 07.23.04 - Wendy Seltzer speaks at BlogOn,
Berkeley, CA; 07.26.04 - 07.28.04 - Wendy Seltzer speaks at
PFIR's "Preventing the Internet Meltdown"; 07.30.04 - 08.01.04
- Kevin Bankston, Annalee Newitz, Seth Schoen, and Wendy
Seltzer speak at Defcon 12, Las Vegas, NV; 08.04.04 - EFF
Holds Freedom Fest 2004, San Francisco, CA
* Administrivia
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* Action Alert: Induce Act Hearing Rescheduled - Keep Up the Pressure!
The Senate Judiciary Committee has taken the Inducing Infringement
of Copyrights Act (Induce Act, S.2560) off the fast track,
scheduling a hearing on the bill next Thursday. This is good
news for the public, but the recording industry is going on the
offensive, turning up its rhetoric in an effort to scare common
sense out of the debate. In a letter sent to the Judiciary
Committee and all 100 senators, RIAA president Mitch Bainwol
insists that critics of the bill are missing the point, and
that the Induce Act is a "moral behavioral test that targets
the bad guys."
But the wording of the legislation itself doesn't support
Bainwol's claims. By making it illegal to "aid, abet, or
induce copyright infringement," the Induce Act could make
companies liable for violations committed by their customers.
This extends liability so far that it threatens both current
and future technologies. Under the Induce Act, creators
of the next iPod or VCR would be forced to subject
themselves to approval from every major copyright holder
before even getting to market. That's too high a price to pay
to satisfy the recording industry in its witch-hunt for
peer-to-peer file sharing.
More than 6,000 EFF supporters have already written to their
senators to stop the Induce Act from giving copyright
holders this kind of veto power over new technologies.
Now it's time to turn up the volume. Forward this message
to five of your friends, family members, or co-workers, and
ask them to support copyright balance, not copyright
bullies.
Send a letter to stop the Induce Act today:
<http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item)18>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* CAPPS II Cancelled: Department of Homeland Security Puts Stake
in the Heart of Passenger-Profiling System
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced yesterday that
development of CAPPS II - the government's controversial airline
passenger surveillance program - will not continue.
According to USA Today, Ridge responded to the question of
whether the program could be considered dead by gesturing
"as if he were driving a stake through its heart,"
and answering, "Yes."
Said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien, "Finally, the Department
of Homeland Security has recognized what EFF has been saying
all along: the proposed CAPPS II system would be an ineffective,
expensive, and unnecessary invasion of travelers' privacy."
For this breaking news item:
<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_07.php#001734>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* Citizens Unite for "Computer Ate My Vote" E-Voting Rallies
Activists Deliver 350,000 Petition Signatures to Support
Election Integrity
On Tuesday, July 13, thousands of people in 19 states sent a
powerful message to policymakers: election integrity matters.
Participants in the "Computer Ate My Vote" Day of Action
delivered 350,000 petition signatures calling for
voter-verifiable paper ballots. They also asked local election
officials to support auditable voting machines. The day was
a huge success, generating major media coverage all across
the country.
The "Computer Ate My Vote" rallies were sponsored by EFF,
MoveOn.org, VerifiedVoting.org, TrueMajority, Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility, Democracy for
America, Common Cause, and countless local activists. Our
friends at TrueMajority were kind enough to send these
highlights:
~ Colorado
Crowd estimates ranged up to 250 at the rally, which was attended
by state officeholders and candidates in addition to long-time
voting activists from Boulder and Denver. Things got exciting
when about 50 of those folks crossed the street to deliver
their 13,411 petition signatures to Secretary of State Donetta
Davidson's office, where they were intercepted by building
security and then city police. After some negotiation, the group
was allowed into the building. They asked to see the Secretary
or a representative, only to be provided with an unintentional
bit of comic relief when the receptionist claimed "they're all
out to lunch."
~ Maryland
Ben Cohen - TrueMajority President and co-founder of Ben &
Jerry's Ice Cream - was joined by state senators and
delegates of both parties at a rally in Annapolis staged
by local activist group TrueVoteMD and attended by more than
100 citizens. Local television affiliates, National Public
Radio, and at least six print journalists showed up to take
in the festivities. Governor Robert Ehrlich would not
accept our stack of petitions, citing "homeland security
concerns," but did allow a delegation to speak to Lt.
Governor Michael Steele. "It was really the best America
has to offer," Cohen reported. "Average citizens who are
concerned about our democracy, taking time out of their
lives to help make sure our elections are fair."
~ Texas
About 150 activists packed a hearing room in the Texas
statehouse, spilling out into the hallway and cheering the
remarks of paper ballot activist Bev Harris and computer
security expert Dan Wallach. "It got really rowdy," said
Abbe Delozier, one of the rally organizers. Sign-toting
Code Pink activists outside added to the atmosphere.
Television news crews and major state print outlets like
the Dallas Morning News and the Texas Observer asked so
many questions that the event stretched on for two hours.
~ Ohio
Over 200 folks rallied at the statehouse, along with balloons,
banners, and a 6 foot-tall smoking, buzzing mockup of a
malfunctioning voting machine. ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates
attended, and two film crews recorded the delivery of
the petitions.
There are a lot more good stories, but EFFector isn't big
enough to hold them. Check out the links below for more
information about e-voting, plus a sampling of the press
coverage of this extraordinary day.
EFF "Verify the Vote" campaign:
<http://www.eff.org/e-vote/>
"Voting Machine Critics Rally Across the Nation, Seeking Paper
Trail by November":
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID"3>
(AP)
"Remember Chads? They've Hung Around":
<http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040713/6359064s.htm>
"E-Voting Backup Is Demanded":
<http://166.70.44.66/2004/Jul/07142004/utah/183377.asp>
(The Salt Lake Tribune)
"Demand for Paper Trail Escalates":
<http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64205,00.html>
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* The DoJ Report on PATRIOT: Style, Not Substance
Responding to growing public and congressional criticism of the
USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice this week released a
new report singing its praises.
As other commentators have already pointed out, the DoJ report,
entitled "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act at Work,"
contains precious little new or meaningful information. Instead,
it functions primarily as a public relations vehicle, parroting
the DoJ's well-worn party line about the benefits of the Act
while failing to address specific and legitimate concerns
about how PATRIOT is being used and whether the new investigative
powers it grants are actually necessary for fighting terrorism.
For example, the report contains absolutely no discussion of the
most controversial PATRIOT provisions, including sections 215
and 505, which gave the DoJ broad new authority to demand
your private records with little or no judicial oversight, and
section 213, which authorized delayed notice, or "sneak and
peek," searches.
At the same time, the DoJ glosses over any problems with the
PATRIOT sections that it deigns to cite. For example, the report
speaks glowingly of PATRIOT's changes to the criminal definition
of providing "material support" to terrorists, yet fails to
mention that one federal court has already found this new
definition unconstitutional.
PATRIOT was originally sold to Congress and the public as an
anti-terrorism measure, but nearly a third of the cases the DoJ
cites do not involve terrorism at all. Instead, provisions that
strip us of our most fundamental rights as U.S. citizens are
being used to investigate garden-variety crimes like credit
card fraud.
Any incursion on our civil liberties must be clearly justified,
but this report fails to show that pre-PATRIOT surveillance powers
were inadequate. The only real benefit the DoJ cites, and
repeats in example after example, is investigative speed - with
fewer judicial safeguards to comply with, investigators were
able to do their work faster. But speed alone does not justify
removing these critical safeguards - if it were, we would
dispense altogether with the constitutional requirement
that investigators get search warrants to come into our homes,
or wiretap orders to listen to our phone conversations.
"The Department of Justice report on PATRIOT is a prime example
of 'style over substance,' offering little concrete information
about the Act's uses or potential abuses," said Kevin Bankston,
EFF attorney and Bruce J. Ennis/Equal Justice Works fellow.
"The American people should not blindly accept the DoJ's
PATRIOT propaganda, but, rather, should demand that Congress
undertake a comprehensive review of PATRIOT's implementation."
Ask Congress to review PATRIOT:
<http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item)25>
More about the USA PATRIOT Act:
<http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/PATRIOT/>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* Audible (Not So) Magic
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been
touting technologies offered by Audible Magic as the cure for
peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on university (and high school!)
campuses. The company has also been making the rounds of
congressional offices in Washington, DC, talking up its
technologies as a silver bullet for P2P infringement.
While we at EFF support universities taking steps to educate staff
and students about copyright law and control excessive bandwidth
usage, it's important that universities are not sold expensive,
ineffective solutions simply to appease the public relations
needs of the RIAA. EFF Staff Technologist Chris Palmer took a
close look at how Audible Magic's "filtering" technology works
and argues that it's no silver bullet.
"Session encryption for file transfers based on ephemeral keys
represents a cheap, easily implemented countermeasure that would
effectively frustrate Audible Magic's 'filtering' technology,"
writes Palmer. "Based on publicly available information, it
does not appear that this vulnerability can be easily remedied.
Should Audible Magic's technology be widely adopted, it is
likely that P2P file-sharing applications would be revised
to implement encryption. Accordingly, network administrators
will want to ask Audible Magic tough questions before investing
in the company's technology, lest the investment be rendered
worthless by the next P2P 'upgrade.'"
EFF analysis: "Audible Magic - No Silver Bullet"
<http://www.eff.org/share/audible_magic.php>
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* Join EFF for Freedom Fest 2004 on August 4th - LinuxWorld
Attendees Invited!
Join EFF and three Bay Area bands for an afternoon of live music
and outdoor fun at EFF's Freedom Fest 2004, generously sponsored
by Red Hat. The free outdoor concert will be held at Yerba Buena
Gardens on Wednesday, August 4th, 2004, from 5 to 8 p.m., just
across the street from the LinuxWorld Conference at Moscone
Center in downtown San Francisco. Featured artists are Austin
Willacy, Josh Fix and the Furious Force, and Megan Slankard Band.
If you can't make it in person, tune in online for the live
webcast.
<http://www.eff.org/freedomfest/>
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* miniLinks
miniLinks features noteworthy news items from around the Internet.
~ Fair Use or "Fair and Balanced"
Lawrence Lessig's recent op-ed on the fair use argument for
using clips from Fox News to criticize its reporting:
<http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/variety.pdf>
~ Understanding the Media Monopoly
A great introduction to the FCC's controversial media ownership
rules (or lack thereof). Required reading:
<http://www.sfbg.com/38/42/cover_freepress.html>
~ Big Content/Big Tech Form New DRM Consortium
The new conglomeration will focus on finding ways to jam
Hollywood-friendly restrictions into home networks:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5268315.html>
~ Breaking Down Councilman
Orin Kerr with a wonderful post on why the decision is such
bad news for privacy:
<http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_07_14.shtml#1089840267>
~ Barbie-in-a-Blender Day
The students at FreeCulture.org announce a unique campaign to
promote free speech and fair uses of copyrighted material:
<http://www.freeculture.org/blog/?pG>
~ Fair Use and Academic Publishing - Q & A
An online colloquy by the Chronicle of Higher Education, featuring
EFF's Wendy Seltzer:
<http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2004/07/copyright/chat.php3>
~ Bionic Mexican Politicos Vow to Fight Crime
We're totally serious. Mexico's attorney general says that a
microchip implanted in his arm - and the arms of other staffers -
gives him access to a futuristic crime database and allow him
to be located if kidnapped:
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64194,00.html>
~ Canadian P2P Redux
The RIAA's analog in Canada, the CRIA, appealed the recent ruling
that essentially legalized P2P:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5266337.html>
~ 100% Increase in Number of Files Downloaded Using P2P
Two new studies suggest that peer-to-peer file sharing is
booming, despite a yearlong campaign of lawsuits and
congressional saber-rattling. We're not going to say we told
you so, but...
<http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040713/80/exvnl.html>
~ The Evils of...Used Books?
Publishers are scared that easy-to-find offerings from used-book
vendors will sink the industry:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/technology/12ecom.html>
(Registration unfortunately required.)
~ Dispatch from the Copyright Wars
Dan Gillmor's Sunday column looks at recent developments - good
and bad - in the legislative battles over copyright reform:
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9129662.htm>
~ Plot Hole Discovered in Hollywood's Story on Piracy and Profits
A new study from Tinseltown says that movie piracy is on the rise.
But last week they also announced that the industry is healthier
- and more profitable - than ever before:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5262427.html>
~ Ask Not for Whom These Copyright Bills Toll
PC World examines this year's crop of copyright bills and finds
that business interests are once again trouncing the public's
rights:
<http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116791,00.asp>
~ Who's Really Looking Out for Artists Online?
P2P companies are developing ways to pay artists - without the
support of record labels:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1149743.htm>
~ Aussie Faces Extradition for Copyright Infringement
This is the first that we've heard about extradition for copyright
offenses, but it probably won't be the last:
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/07/1089000225628.html>
~ Hollywood Rolls Out New Piracy-Resistant Screeners
Will it work? We think this quote from Academy President Frank
Pierson may turn out to be accidentally prescient: "It certainly
looked foolproof to us":
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9068782.htm>
~ VoIP Running the Regulatory Gauntlet
The budding Internet telephony industry is under a number of
government microscopes. Declan McCullagh wonders if it will
survive the scrutiny:
<http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5256334.html>
EFF on the application of pre-existing wiretap laws to VoIP:
<http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/CALEA/>
~ Squatters Leave Kerry-Edwards Campaign Homeless on the Web
Domain name speculators have snapped up the most obvious choices
for the Democratic ticket's web presence:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32169-2004Jul6.html>
(Registration unfortunately required.)
~ California Email System Springs a Leak, Sends Employee Data to...
Sweden?
The strange story of a Swedish company that's been randomly
receiving sensitive emails - employee salary data and financial
info, for instance - from a California county for two years:
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116808,00.asp>
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* Staff Calendar
For a complete listing of EFF speaking engagements (with
locations and times), please visit:
<http://www.eff.org/calendar/>
~ July 23 -
Wendy Seltzer speaks at BlogOn
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Berkeley, CA
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
<http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2004/>
~ July 26-28 -
Wendy Seltzer speaks at PFIR's "Preventing the Internet Meltdown
Los Angeles, CA
<http://www.pfir.org/meltdown>
~ July 30 - August 1 -
Kevin Bankston, Annalee Newitz, Seth Schoen, and Wendy Seltzer
speak at Defcon 12, Las Vegas, NV
<http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-12/dc-12-index.html>
~ August 4 -
EFF holds Freedom Fest 2004
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Yerba Buena Gardens
San Francisco, CA
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* Administrivia
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:39:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Effector List <alerts@action.eff.org>
To: joyeria@walrus.com
Subject: EFFector 17.26: Action Alert - Induce Act Hearing Rescheduled - Keep Up
the Pressure!
EFFector Vol. 17, No. 26 July 15, 2004 donna@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424
In the 298th Issue of EFFector:
* Action Alert: Induce Act Hearing Rescheduled - Keep Up the Pressure!
* CAPPS II Cancelled: Department of Homeland Security Puts
Stake in the Heart of Passenger-Profiling System
* Citizens Unite for "Computer Ate My Vote" E-Voting Rallies
* The DoJ Report on PATRIOT: Style, Not Substance
* Audible (Not So) Magic
* Join EFF for Freedom Fest 2004 on August 4th - LinuxWorld
Attendees Invited!
* MiniLinks (19): Breaking Down Councilman
* Staff Calendar: 07.23.04 - Wendy Seltzer speaks at BlogOn,
Berkeley, CA; 07.26.04 - 07.28.04 - Wendy Seltzer speaks at
PFIR's "Preventing the Internet Meltdown"; 07.30.04 - 08.01.04
- Kevin Bankston, Annalee Newitz, Seth Schoen, and Wendy
Seltzer speak at Defcon 12, Las Vegas, NV; 08.04.04 - EFF
Holds Freedom Fest 2004, San Francisco, CA
* Administrivia
For more information on EFF activities & alerts:
<http://www.eff.org/>
To join EFF or make an additional donation:
<https://secure.eff.org/>
EFF is a member-supported nonprofit. Please sign up as a member today!
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* Action Alert: Induce Act Hearing Rescheduled - Keep Up the Pressure!
The Senate Judiciary Committee has taken the Inducing Infringement
of Copyrights Act (Induce Act, S.2560) off the fast track,
scheduling a hearing on the bill next Thursday. This is good
news for the public, but the recording industry is going on the
offensive, turning up its rhetoric in an effort to scare common
sense out of the debate. In a letter sent to the Judiciary
Committee and all 100 senators, RIAA president Mitch Bainwol
insists that critics of the bill are missing the point, and
that the Induce Act is a "moral behavioral test that targets
the bad guys."
But the wording of the legislation itself doesn't support
Bainwol's claims. By making it illegal to "aid, abet, or
induce copyright infringement," the Induce Act could make
companies liable for violations committed by their customers.
This extends liability so far that it threatens both current
and future technologies. Under the Induce Act, creators
of the next iPod or VCR would be forced to subject
themselves to approval from every major copyright holder
before even getting to market. That's too high a price to pay
to satisfy the recording industry in its witch-hunt for
peer-to-peer file sharing.
More than 6,000 EFF supporters have already written to their
senators to stop the Induce Act from giving copyright
holders this kind of veto power over new technologies.
Now it's time to turn up the volume. Forward this message
to five of your friends, family members, or co-workers, and
ask them to support copyright balance, not copyright
bullies.
Send a letter to stop the Induce Act today:
<http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item)18>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* CAPPS II Cancelled: Department of Homeland Security Puts Stake
in the Heart of Passenger-Profiling System
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced yesterday that
development of CAPPS II - the government's controversial airline
passenger surveillance program - will not continue.
According to USA Today, Ridge responded to the question of
whether the program could be considered dead by gesturing
"as if he were driving a stake through its heart,"
and answering, "Yes."
Said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien, "Finally, the Department
of Homeland Security has recognized what EFF has been saying
all along: the proposed CAPPS II system would be an ineffective,
expensive, and unnecessary invasion of travelers' privacy."
For this breaking news item:
<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_07.php#001734>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* Citizens Unite for "Computer Ate My Vote" E-Voting Rallies
Activists Deliver 350,000 Petition Signatures to Support
Election Integrity
On Tuesday, July 13, thousands of people in 19 states sent a
powerful message to policymakers: election integrity matters.
Participants in the "Computer Ate My Vote" Day of Action
delivered 350,000 petition signatures calling for
voter-verifiable paper ballots. They also asked local election
officials to support auditable voting machines. The day was
a huge success, generating major media coverage all across
the country.
The "Computer Ate My Vote" rallies were sponsored by EFF,
MoveOn.org, VerifiedVoting.org, TrueMajority, Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility, Democracy for
America, Common Cause, and countless local activists. Our
friends at TrueMajority were kind enough to send these
highlights:
~ Colorado
Crowd estimates ranged up to 250 at the rally, which was attended
by state officeholders and candidates in addition to long-time
voting activists from Boulder and Denver. Things got exciting
when about 50 of those folks crossed the street to deliver
their 13,411 petition signatures to Secretary of State Donetta
Davidson's office, where they were intercepted by building
security and then city police. After some negotiation, the group
was allowed into the building. They asked to see the Secretary
or a representative, only to be provided with an unintentional
bit of comic relief when the receptionist claimed "they're all
out to lunch."
~ Maryland
Ben Cohen - TrueMajority President and co-founder of Ben &
Jerry's Ice Cream - was joined by state senators and
delegates of both parties at a rally in Annapolis staged
by local activist group TrueVoteMD and attended by more than
100 citizens. Local television affiliates, National Public
Radio, and at least six print journalists showed up to take
in the festivities. Governor Robert Ehrlich would not
accept our stack of petitions, citing "homeland security
concerns," but did allow a delegation to speak to Lt.
Governor Michael Steele. "It was really the best America
has to offer," Cohen reported. "Average citizens who are
concerned about our democracy, taking time out of their
lives to help make sure our elections are fair."
~ Texas
About 150 activists packed a hearing room in the Texas
statehouse, spilling out into the hallway and cheering the
remarks of paper ballot activist Bev Harris and computer
security expert Dan Wallach. "It got really rowdy," said
Abbe Delozier, one of the rally organizers. Sign-toting
Code Pink activists outside added to the atmosphere.
Television news crews and major state print outlets like
the Dallas Morning News and the Texas Observer asked so
many questions that the event stretched on for two hours.
~ Ohio
Over 200 folks rallied at the statehouse, along with balloons,
banners, and a 6 foot-tall smoking, buzzing mockup of a
malfunctioning voting machine. ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates
attended, and two film crews recorded the delivery of
the petitions.
There are a lot more good stories, but EFFector isn't big
enough to hold them. Check out the links below for more
information about e-voting, plus a sampling of the press
coverage of this extraordinary day.
EFF "Verify the Vote" campaign:
<http://www.eff.org/e-vote/>
"Voting Machine Critics Rally Across the Nation, Seeking Paper
Trail by November":
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID"3>
(AP)
"Remember Chads? They've Hung Around":
<http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040713/6359064s.htm>
"E-Voting Backup Is Demanded":
<http://166.70.44.66/2004/Jul/07142004/utah/183377.asp>
(The Salt Lake Tribune)
"Demand for Paper Trail Escalates":
<http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64205,00.html>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* The DoJ Report on PATRIOT: Style, Not Substance
Responding to growing public and congressional criticism of the
USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice this week released a
new report singing its praises.
As other commentators have already pointed out, the DoJ report,
entitled "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act at Work,"
contains precious little new or meaningful information. Instead,
it functions primarily as a public relations vehicle, parroting
the DoJ's well-worn party line about the benefits of the Act
while failing to address specific and legitimate concerns
about how PATRIOT is being used and whether the new investigative
powers it grants are actually necessary for fighting terrorism.
For example, the report contains absolutely no discussion of the
most controversial PATRIOT provisions, including sections 215
and 505, which gave the DoJ broad new authority to demand
your private records with little or no judicial oversight, and
section 213, which authorized delayed notice, or "sneak and
peek," searches.
At the same time, the DoJ glosses over any problems with the
PATRIOT sections that it deigns to cite. For example, the report
speaks glowingly of PATRIOT's changes to the criminal definition
of providing "material support" to terrorists, yet fails to
mention that one federal court has already found this new
definition unconstitutional.
PATRIOT was originally sold to Congress and the public as an
anti-terrorism measure, but nearly a third of the cases the DoJ
cites do not involve terrorism at all. Instead, provisions that
strip us of our most fundamental rights as U.S. citizens are
being used to investigate garden-variety crimes like credit
card fraud.
Any incursion on our civil liberties must be clearly justified,
but this report fails to show that pre-PATRIOT surveillance powers
were inadequate. The only real benefit the DoJ cites, and
repeats in example after example, is investigative speed - with
fewer judicial safeguards to comply with, investigators were
able to do their work faster. But speed alone does not justify
removing these critical safeguards - if it were, we would
dispense altogether with the constitutional requirement
that investigators get search warrants to come into our homes,
or wiretap orders to listen to our phone conversations.
"The Department of Justice report on PATRIOT is a prime example
of 'style over substance,' offering little concrete information
about the Act's uses or potential abuses," said Kevin Bankston,
EFF attorney and Bruce J. Ennis/Equal Justice Works fellow.
"The American people should not blindly accept the DoJ's
PATRIOT propaganda, but, rather, should demand that Congress
undertake a comprehensive review of PATRIOT's implementation."
Ask Congress to review PATRIOT:
<http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item)25>
More about the USA PATRIOT Act:
<http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/PATRIOT/>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* Audible (Not So) Magic
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been
touting technologies offered by Audible Magic as the cure for
peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on university (and high school!)
campuses. The company has also been making the rounds of
congressional offices in Washington, DC, talking up its
technologies as a silver bullet for P2P infringement.
While we at EFF support universities taking steps to educate staff
and students about copyright law and control excessive bandwidth
usage, it's important that universities are not sold expensive,
ineffective solutions simply to appease the public relations
needs of the RIAA. EFF Staff Technologist Chris Palmer took a
close look at how Audible Magic's "filtering" technology works
and argues that it's no silver bullet.
"Session encryption for file transfers based on ephemeral keys
represents a cheap, easily implemented countermeasure that would
effectively frustrate Audible Magic's 'filtering' technology,"
writes Palmer. "Based on publicly available information, it
does not appear that this vulnerability can be easily remedied.
Should Audible Magic's technology be widely adopted, it is
likely that P2P file-sharing applications would be revised
to implement encryption. Accordingly, network administrators
will want to ask Audible Magic tough questions before investing
in the company's technology, lest the investment be rendered
worthless by the next P2P 'upgrade.'"
EFF analysis: "Audible Magic - No Silver Bullet"
<http://www.eff.org/share/audible_magic.php>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
* Join EFF for Freedom Fest 2004 on August 4th - LinuxWorld
Attendees Invited!
Join EFF and three Bay Area bands for an afternoon of live music
and outdoor fun at EFF's Freedom Fest 2004, generously sponsored
by Red Hat. The free outdoor concert will be held at Yerba Buena
Gardens on Wednesday, August 4th, 2004, from 5 to 8 p.m., just
across the street from the LinuxWorld Conference at Moscone
Center in downtown San Francisco. Featured artists are Austin
Willacy, Josh Fix and the Furious Force, and Megan Slankard Band.
If you can't make it in person, tune in online for the live
webcast.
<http://www.eff.org/freedomfest/>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* miniLinks
miniLinks features noteworthy news items from around the Internet.
~ Fair Use or "Fair and Balanced"
Lawrence Lessig's recent op-ed on the fair use argument for
using clips from Fox News to criticize its reporting:
<http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/variety.pdf>
~ Understanding the Media Monopoly
A great introduction to the FCC's controversial media ownership
rules (or lack thereof). Required reading:
<http://www.sfbg.com/38/42/cover_freepress.html>
~ Big Content/Big Tech Form New DRM Consortium
The new conglomeration will focus on finding ways to jam
Hollywood-friendly restrictions into home networks:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5268315.html>
~ Breaking Down Councilman
Orin Kerr with a wonderful post on why the decision is such
bad news for privacy:
<http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_07_14.shtml#1089840267>
~ Barbie-in-a-Blender Day
The students at FreeCulture.org announce a unique campaign to
promote free speech and fair uses of copyrighted material:
<http://www.freeculture.org/blog/?pG>
~ Fair Use and Academic Publishing - Q & A
An online colloquy by the Chronicle of Higher Education, featuring
EFF's Wendy Seltzer:
<http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2004/07/copyright/chat.php3>
~ Bionic Mexican Politicos Vow to Fight Crime
We're totally serious. Mexico's attorney general says that a
microchip implanted in his arm - and the arms of other staffers -
gives him access to a futuristic crime database and allow him
to be located if kidnapped:
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64194,00.html>
~ Canadian P2P Redux
The RIAA's analog in Canada, the CRIA, appealed the recent ruling
that essentially legalized P2P:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5266337.html>
~ 100% Increase in Number of Files Downloaded Using P2P
Two new studies suggest that peer-to-peer file sharing is
booming, despite a yearlong campaign of lawsuits and
congressional saber-rattling. We're not going to say we told
you so, but...
<http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040713/80/exvnl.html>
~ The Evils of...Used Books?
Publishers are scared that easy-to-find offerings from used-book
vendors will sink the industry:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/technology/12ecom.html>
(Registration unfortunately required.)
~ Dispatch from the Copyright Wars
Dan Gillmor's Sunday column looks at recent developments - good
and bad - in the legislative battles over copyright reform:
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9129662.htm>
~ Plot Hole Discovered in Hollywood's Story on Piracy and Profits
A new study from Tinseltown says that movie piracy is on the rise.
But last week they also announced that the industry is healthier
- and more profitable - than ever before:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5262427.html>
~ Ask Not for Whom These Copyright Bills Toll
PC World examines this year's crop of copyright bills and finds
that business interests are once again trouncing the public's
rights:
<http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116791,00.asp>
~ Who's Really Looking Out for Artists Online?
P2P companies are developing ways to pay artists - without the
support of record labels:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1149743.htm>
~ Aussie Faces Extradition for Copyright Infringement
This is the first that we've heard about extradition for copyright
offenses, but it probably won't be the last:
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/07/1089000225628.html>
~ Hollywood Rolls Out New Piracy-Resistant Screeners
Will it work? We think this quote from Academy President Frank
Pierson may turn out to be accidentally prescient: "It certainly
looked foolproof to us":
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9068782.htm>
~ VoIP Running the Regulatory Gauntlet
The budding Internet telephony industry is under a number of
government microscopes. Declan McCullagh wonders if it will
survive the scrutiny:
<http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5256334.html>
EFF on the application of pre-existing wiretap laws to VoIP:
<http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/CALEA/>
~ Squatters Leave Kerry-Edwards Campaign Homeless on the Web
Domain name speculators have snapped up the most obvious choices
for the Democratic ticket's web presence:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32169-2004Jul6.html>
(Registration unfortunately required.)
~ California Email System Springs a Leak, Sends Employee Data to...
Sweden?
The strange story of a Swedish company that's been randomly
receiving sensitive emails - employee salary data and financial
info, for instance - from a California county for two years:
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116808,00.asp>
: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : .
* Staff Calendar
For a complete listing of EFF speaking engagements (with
locations and times), please visit:
<http://www.eff.org/calendar/>
~ July 23 -
Wendy Seltzer speaks at BlogOn
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Berkeley, CA
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
<http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2004/>
~ July 26-28 -
Wendy Seltzer speaks at PFIR's "Preventing the Internet Meltdown
Los Angeles, CA
<http://www.pfir.org/meltdown>
~ July 30 - August 1 -
Kevin Bankston, Annalee Newitz, Seth Schoen, and Wendy Seltzer
speak at Defcon 12, Las Vegas, NV
<http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-12/dc-12-index.html>
~ August 4 -
EFF holds Freedom Fest 2004
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Yerba Buena Gardens
San Francisco, CA
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Lessig piece on OutFoxed
posted today on Lessig blog:
Fair Use or "Fair and Balanced"
Lawrence Lessig
Variety, July 14, 2004
Robert Greenwald's latest film, "Outfoxed," is a political documentary
about Republican bias at Fox News. It is also, as the New York Times
Sunday Magazine dubbed it, a "guerrilla documentary."
In addition to interviews with former Fox employees, academic studies
evaluating the "Fox effect" and internal Fox memos, Greenwald has used
significant number of clips from Fox News to show the bias that the slogan
"fair and balanced" belies.
He had no permission to use those clips.
Fox has called Greenwald's use stealing. It has warned other networks
that if they exploit his "illegal copyright infringement," those networks
will open themselves up to similar criticism --- presumably by Fox. And
its legal department has complained that it was not given enough time to
respond to questions the New York Times raised about the doc --- and that
the Times was therefore a co-conspirator in this copyright infringement.
If Greenwald's use of Fox's content is "fair use" --- as we believe it
plainly is --- then it is no more "stealing" than walking across a
sidewalk in front of a neighbor's home is trespassing on the neighbor's
property.
Copyright is property, but like all property, the rights it grants are
limited. "Fair use" is one such limit, constitutionally compelled, giving
critics such as Greenwald the right to use a limited amount of copyrighted
material without asking permission first.
Democracy depends upon such criticism --- especially as the owners of
our culture become fewer in number, and the power they exercise, because
of media concentration, increases.
Fox claims it is "fair and balanced." Is it?
Bill O'Reilly promised Fox viewers that he would report the news of
the war "without an agenda or any ideological prejudice." Did he?
These are important questions at any time, but especially now, as the
answers so dramatically affect current public policy. And they can be
answered effectively only with a work that can use the images that created
the bias alleged.
Journalists should encourage such criticism. If news networks are not
as they say they are, then journalists and critics should be able to show
it. If Greenwald's argument is wrong, then let another filmmaker
contradict it. Or if ABC is just as bad, then let ABC be outed, too.
Yet that thought no doubt terrifies not just Fox, but every one of the
(handful of) networks that now control our airways --- which is why Fox's
first response to the Greenwald film was to warn other networks not to
take it seriously, or risk "opening (themselves) to having (their)
copyrighted material taken out of context for partisan reasons."
Fox and others will insist that any use of their copyrighted material
is "theft"; they will rally to fight this "theft" in order to protect
themselves from this unwanted criticism.
Let's hope reason leads these network owners to allow this rally to
fizzle.
For "fair use" is grounded in First Amendment principles. Among those
principles is one that is central to news organizations generally: New
York Times vs. Sullivan.
In that case, the Supreme Court held reporters are immunized in most
cases from libel actions. A "profound national commitment to the principle
that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open"
meant that even erroneous statements must be protected so long as the
error was not knowingly made.
The same principle should guide "fair use" in the context of a film
criticizing a news organization. If the reputation of public figures must
be sacrificed so that news organizations have the "breathing space that
they need to survive," then the scope of fair use should be interpreted to
assure that critics of news organizations have the breathing space they
need to survive, too.
A commitment to these free-speech values is a commitment to fighting
wars of ideas with more speech, and fewer lawsuits.
It is as shameful for Fox to sue Al Franken for using "fair and
balanced" as it is for Michael Moore to threaten to sue his critics for
defamation. We need more debate in America, not less. And we will get more
critical and insightful debate if filmmakers like Greenwald can do their
work without the law requiring that lawyers look over his editor's
shoulder.
Fox News is a network. It has the privilege of 24/7 access to most
American citizens. If it believes it has been wronged by Greenwald's film,
then let it match his criticism with criticism of its own --- through its
journalists, not its lawyers.
And as to whether three days was enough time for Fox's legal
department to respond to a question from the New York Times, come on. If
its legal department can't muster a response to a simple question in three
days, I'd be happy to advise Fox where it might find faster, more
efficient lawyers.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and author of
the book "Free Culture" (Penguin Press, 2004). He is advising Robert
Greenwald.
posted by [ Lessig ] on [ Jul 14 04 at 7:37 AM ] to [ free culture ]
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002023.shtml
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+
Fair Use or "Fair and Balanced"
Lawrence Lessig
Variety, July 14, 2004
Robert Greenwald's latest film, "Outfoxed," is a political documentary
about Republican bias at Fox News. It is also, as the New York Times
Sunday Magazine dubbed it, a "guerrilla documentary."
In addition to interviews with former Fox employees, academic studies
evaluating the "Fox effect" and internal Fox memos, Greenwald has used
significant number of clips from Fox News to show the bias that the slogan
"fair and balanced" belies.
He had no permission to use those clips.
Fox has called Greenwald's use stealing. It has warned other networks
that if they exploit his "illegal copyright infringement," those networks
will open themselves up to similar criticism --- presumably by Fox. And
its legal department has complained that it was not given enough time to
respond to questions the New York Times raised about the doc --- and that
the Times was therefore a co-conspirator in this copyright infringement.
If Greenwald's use of Fox's content is "fair use" --- as we believe it
plainly is --- then it is no more "stealing" than walking across a
sidewalk in front of a neighbor's home is trespassing on the neighbor's
property.
Copyright is property, but like all property, the rights it grants are
limited. "Fair use" is one such limit, constitutionally compelled, giving
critics such as Greenwald the right to use a limited amount of copyrighted
material without asking permission first.
Democracy depends upon such criticism --- especially as the owners of
our culture become fewer in number, and the power they exercise, because
of media concentration, increases.
Fox claims it is "fair and balanced." Is it?
Bill O'Reilly promised Fox viewers that he would report the news of
the war "without an agenda or any ideological prejudice." Did he?
These are important questions at any time, but especially now, as the
answers so dramatically affect current public policy. And they can be
answered effectively only with a work that can use the images that created
the bias alleged.
Journalists should encourage such criticism. If news networks are not
as they say they are, then journalists and critics should be able to show
it. If Greenwald's argument is wrong, then let another filmmaker
contradict it. Or if ABC is just as bad, then let ABC be outed, too.
Yet that thought no doubt terrifies not just Fox, but every one of the
(handful of) networks that now control our airways --- which is why Fox's
first response to the Greenwald film was to warn other networks not to
take it seriously, or risk "opening (themselves) to having (their)
copyrighted material taken out of context for partisan reasons."
Fox and others will insist that any use of their copyrighted material
is "theft"; they will rally to fight this "theft" in order to protect
themselves from this unwanted criticism.
Let's hope reason leads these network owners to allow this rally to
fizzle.
For "fair use" is grounded in First Amendment principles. Among those
principles is one that is central to news organizations generally: New
York Times vs. Sullivan.
In that case, the Supreme Court held reporters are immunized in most
cases from libel actions. A "profound national commitment to the principle
that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open"
meant that even erroneous statements must be protected so long as the
error was not knowingly made.
The same principle should guide "fair use" in the context of a film
criticizing a news organization. If the reputation of public figures must
be sacrificed so that news organizations have the "breathing space that
they need to survive," then the scope of fair use should be interpreted to
assure that critics of news organizations have the breathing space they
need to survive, too.
A commitment to these free-speech values is a commitment to fighting
wars of ideas with more speech, and fewer lawsuits.
It is as shameful for Fox to sue Al Franken for using "fair and
balanced" as it is for Michael Moore to threaten to sue his critics for
defamation. We need more debate in America, not less. And we will get more
critical and insightful debate if filmmakers like Greenwald can do their
work without the law requiring that lawyers look over his editor's
shoulder.
Fox News is a network. It has the privilege of 24/7 access to most
American citizens. If it believes it has been wronged by Greenwald's film,
then let it match his criticism with criticism of its own --- through its
journalists, not its lawyers.
And as to whether three days was enough time for Fox's legal
department to respond to a question from the New York Times, come on. If
its legal department can't muster a response to a simple question in three
days, I'd be happy to advise Fox where it might find faster, more
efficient lawyers.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and author of
the book "Free Culture" (Penguin Press, 2004). He is advising Robert
Greenwald.
posted by [ Lessig ] on [ Jul 14 04 at 7:37 AM ] to [ free culture ]
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002023.shtml
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Re: Julianne Schwartz periscope on Bowery
cute -- I just blogged it and your Hello? site here:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com
cheers,
j
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http://newsgrist.typepad.com
cheers,
j
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House parties to take on Fox with Al Franken (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:19:25 -0700
From: "Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org" <moveon-help@list.moveon.org>
To: joy garnett <joyeria@walrus.com>
Subject: House parties to take on Fox with Al Franken
Dear MoveOn member,
Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, Fox News Channel turns Republican
talking points into news headlines. Now "Uncovered" director Robert
Greenwald -- working with a group of Fox-monitoring MoveOn members --
has put together a documentary film called "Outfoxed" that exposes Fox
for what it is: partisan spin, not news.
This Sunday evening, July 18th, you're invited to be among the first
to see "Outfoxed" at one of over 2,500 house parties across the
nation, hosted by MoveOn and Common Cause members. Then join together
in a coast-to-coast conference call with comedian and radio host Al
Franken and the movie's director, Robert Greenwald. We'll kick off an
exciting campaign to take on Fox for its partisan reporting and
deceptive slogan "Fair and Balanced."
Find a house party in your neighborhood at:
http://action.moveon.org/outfoxed/
Check out the trailer for "Outfoxed" at the movie website here:
http://www.moveon.org/r?520
At this web page, you can also order your own copy of "Outfoxed" --
for only $9.95 plus shipping. We recommend you buy the film, watch it,
and pass it on to friends. It's really an impressive and important
piece of work.
"Outfoxed" was co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress and
MoveOn. The film features former Fox News producers, reporters,
bookers, and writers talking for the first time about how they were
pressured to push each day's partisan message. Through leaked memos
and never-before-seen Fox clips, "Outfoxed" makes a powerful and
disturbing case not only about Fox, but about the state of American
journalism.
Fox News makes no real distinction between its opinion shows and its
news coverage -- partisan politics infuse all of Fox's programming. The media watch group FAIR just released a study of Fox's flagship evening news program, finding Republican guests outnumber Democrats by 5 to 1. Having an opinion is one thing. Insisting your partisan politicking is "fair and balanced" journalism is quite another. Whether you agree with Fox's politics is beside the point -- citizens in a democracy depend on unbiased news reporting.
Defending fair journalism is a huge job, and we're glad to be planning
this effort with trusted friends at the Center for American Progress,
Free Press, Media Matters for America, FAIR, AlterNet, Common Cause,
and others.
It's time to take Fox to task for its partisanship. Join us at a house
party near you:
http://action.moveon.org/outfoxed/
If there are no house parties in your area, you can host your own. All
you need is a TV, DVD player or VCR, and a place where folks can
watch. You can allow MoveOn and Common Cause members to sign up or
host a private party just for your friends. For a $29 contribution to
MoveOn.org, we'll send you a copy of "Outfoxed." To get the movie in
time, you'll need to sign up to host by the end of the day, at:
http://action.moveon.org/outfoxed/newmeeting.html
We hope you can make it on Sunday!
Sincerely,
--Carrie, Joan, Lee, Marika, Noah, Peter, and Wes
The MoveOn.org Team
July 13th, 2004
P.S. You can read the FAIR study documenting an imbalance on Fox's
most prominent news show at:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0407/special-report.html
The New York Times magazine ran a great piece about "Outfoxed" on
Sunday. Take a look at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/magazine/11FOX.html
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Subject: House parties to take on Fox with Al Franken
Dear MoveOn member,
Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, Fox News Channel turns Republican
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The New York Times magazine ran a great piece about "Outfoxed" on
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Clear Channel Bombs Billboard
maybe we should all grab the "rejected image" and put it on our sites?
just a thought.
posted this morning on newsgrist:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com
permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/clear_channel_b.html
Monday, July 12, 2004
Clear Channel Bombs Billboard
[check out these images]
Rejected image (+ bomb) vs. accepted version (+ dove) via NYTimes.
via NPR:
Clear Channel Nixes Anti-war Billboard
Project Billboard, a fledgling non-partisan group whose mission is to
stimulate public debate, files a preliminary injunction against Clear
Channel in a New York court. The group is trying to force the media giant
to run its ad on a prime billboard in Times Square. Clear Channel
allegedly rejected it because of its anti-war political message. Hear
NPR's Steve Inskeep.
via NYTimes:
A group of antiwar advocates is accusing Clear Channel Communications, one
of the nation's largest media companies, with close ties to national
Republicans, of preventing the group from displaying a Times Square
billboard critical of the war in Iraq.
The billboard - an image of a red, white and blue bomb with the words
"Democracy Is Best Taught by Example, Not by War" - was supposed to go up
next month, the antiwar group said, and it was to be in place when
Republicans from across the country gathered in New York City to nominate
President Bush for a second term.
other articles:
Newsday
New York Daily News
San Francisco Chronicle
The Sydney Morning Herald
Monday, July 12, 2004 at 10:22 AM in Current Affairs
just a thought.
posted this morning on newsgrist:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com
permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/07/clear_channel_b.html
Monday, July 12, 2004
Clear Channel Bombs Billboard
[check out these images]
Rejected image (+ bomb) vs. accepted version (+ dove) via NYTimes.
via NPR:
Clear Channel Nixes Anti-war Billboard
Project Billboard, a fledgling non-partisan group whose mission is to
stimulate public debate, files a preliminary injunction against Clear
Channel in a New York court. The group is trying to force the media giant
to run its ad on a prime billboard in Times Square. Clear Channel
allegedly rejected it because of its anti-war political message. Hear
NPR's Steve Inskeep.
via NYTimes:
A group of antiwar advocates is accusing Clear Channel Communications, one
of the nation's largest media companies, with close ties to national
Republicans, of preventing the group from displaying a Times Square
billboard critical of the war in Iraq.
The billboard - an image of a red, white and blue bomb with the words
"Democracy Is Best Taught by Example, Not by War" - was supposed to go up
next month, the antiwar group said, and it was to be in place when
Republicans from across the country gathered in New York City to nominate
President Bush for a second term.
other articles:
Newsday
New York Daily News
San Francisco Chronicle
The Sydney Morning Herald
Monday, July 12, 2004 at 10:22 AM in Current Affairs