When activists came to the Federal Communications Commission hearing at Duke Law School last Monday, they didn’t meet much opposition. Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, the two FCC commissioners who called the hearing, were already convinced of the importance of their message, as were most of the panelists. More than 150 people showed up, and […]
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These streets aren’t made for walking
A woman takes her child by the hand and proceeds to cross seven lanes of traffic. Cars are heading toward them at 50 mph as she and her child run across the street. It’s a terrifying sight, but a very common one here at the intersection of U.S.15-501 and Garrett Road. On one side of […]
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Look who’s standing up to big media
This summer, leaders in Washington will make a decision that will affect everything you see, hear and read. You probably haven’t heard about it–most Americans haven’t. But on Monday, you have the chance to speak directly to those leaders about what this decision means to American media and to our democracy. The Federal Communications Commission, […]
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A pull-out guide to Triangle Media Ownership
Television . . .AOL Time Warner, New York, www.aoltimewarner.com (2002 revenue: $41.1 billion) News 14 Carolina, http://news14.com Time Warner Cable, the only cable provider in the Triangle RoadRunner, high-speed Internet provider News 14 Carolina is one of six local news stations the company owns nationally. AOL Time Warner’s holdings include America Online (which has 35 […]
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Ridicule
The only surprising thing about Carrboro’s decision last week to make April “French Trade Month” was that they beat Berkeley, Calif., to the punch. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen passed a resolution encouraging the town’s residents to enjoy French wine and cheese, products that people in other parts of the country are boycotting. The move […]
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Fire safety for scenesters: stop, rock and roll
A few days after the Great White tragedy in Rhode Island, I ran into my friend Jamie McLendon at the Sleepies show at Bully’s Basement. He looked ashen and uncomfortable. When I asked him what was wrong, he said he was still completely freaked out about the fire in Rhode Island that killed 99 people. […]
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Triangles
In the private room of Tosca, an upscale Italian restaurant in a renovated tobacco warehouse in downtown Durham, Arianna Huffington is introducing people she doesn’t even know. “York, have you met Jesse?” she asks, introducing the Indy’s photographer to the president of the Duke Student Union, the group that brought her to speak on campus […]
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Media Feud
There’s a showdown going on at the Federal Communications Commission, and you can catch a piece of the action this month when the FCC holds a public hearing on media ownership at Duke Law School. The March 31 hearing is one of just a handful of public hearings scheduled to take place before the FCC […]
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Telling The Truth Through Lies
Years ago, when Ariel Dorfman began writing his latest play Picasso’sCloset, about the Spanish painter’s time spent in occupied Paris during World War II, he wasn’t thinking about the United States or Iraq. The poet, dramatist and chair of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University has spent most of his life writing about […]
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The War of Words
Earlier this month, a group of poets managed to disrupt the White House. Laura Bush had planned a Feb. 12 symposium on “Poetry and the American Voice” to celebrate the works of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson. Washington-based poet Sam Hamill responded to the invitation by collecting anti-war poems from people across the […]
