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Make your own DTV Antenna
Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 2008-12-05 11:58
Over-the-air TV viewers across the country should now be getting ready for the Feb. 17 switch to Digital TV. By now most of us are aware of the steps we need to take: Order a coupon for $40 off a DTV converter box; (2) use the coupon to buy a box, and (3) hook it up.
Some of us may need a new UHF/VHF antenna to pick up the digital TV signals. When you buy your DTV box, retailers will try to sell you an expensive antenna as well (the government coupons don't cover antennas). Here's a cheaper option: the folks at Make Magazine provide instructions on how to build your own antenna out of coat hangers and scrap wood.
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Election 08: Gender, race and the media
Submitted by jonathan on Mon, 2008-10-27 11:36
Across the nation, voters are already casting their ballots in what may be the most significant election in decades. Race and gender have been front and center in the historic presidential campaigns. As the American political world is set for a major transformation, has our media been tuned in, or tuned out?
Join Reclaim the Media and partner organizations on Thursday evening, Nov 6 at Antioch University (download flyer) for a post-election celebration of democracy - and a critical look at how US media dealt with the challenges of campaign coverage 2008.
Panelists include Jennifer Pozner (Women in Media and News), Naomi Ishisaka (One America), Lorena González (Latino PAC), B.J. Bullert (Antioch Center for Creative Change) and Cory Fisher-Hoffman (Prometheus Radio Project), moderated by Jan Strout (Reclaim the Media).
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NW and Grassroots represent at the Minneapolis media reform conference
Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 2008-05-30 07:19Reclaim the Media is headed to Minneapolis this coming week for the fourth National Conference on Media Reform, and so are a bunch of other NW community media movers and shakers. Throughout the weekend, RTM will be working closely with our friends in the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), our nationwide coalition of regional, grassroots groups working together for media justice. We'll be sharing table space with MAG-Net, so come and see us! We'll be giving away RTM and MAG-Net stuff (including our cool media justice fans), and selling RTM t-shirts, DVDs and Media Heroes trading cards. Read on for Northwest and MAG-Net-related schedule details!
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Good Luck to Tony Riddle!
Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 2008-02-05 10:49Tony Riddle, until recently Executive Director of the national Alliance for Community Media, has left that position and will be joining the staff of Pacifica station WBAI-FM in New York as Executive Director. RTM considers Tony an especially valued colleague (along with others who have recently changed jobs within the media democracy movement, including former Media Alliance ED Jeff Perlstein and former Future of Music Coalition ED Jenny Toomey).
During his work at the ACM, Tony did a great job of highlighting the media policy issues affecting public access, educational and government cable channels, and making sure that the media democracy movement understood how sustaining grassroots community media is a crucial issue alongside media ownership, net neutrality, etc. RTM hopes that new ACM leadership will pursue these connections as Tony did.
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State House committee says no to media consolidation
Submitted by jonathan on Thu, 2008-01-31 10:55- jonathan's blog
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Media/telecom odds and ends in the Washington Legislature
Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 2008-01-22 13:17The Washington State Legislature will consider a handful of bills dealing with media and telecommunications issues during this year's short legislative session. Live issues include protecting freedom of speech for student journalists, a proposed initiative to expand high-speed broadband deployment statewide, and a resolution asking Congress to overrule the FCC's recent deregulation of media cross-ownership rules. Read on for details on specific bills!
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Norman Solomon and a conversation on KPFA
Submitted by jonathan on Mon, 2008-01-21 11:40- jonathan's blog
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Media coverage of US-Iran relations: Jan. 31
Submitted by jonathan on Wed, 2008-01-09 16:52Wading through the flood of news on Iran? Wondering what it all means? On Thurs, Jan. 31, Reclaim the Media joins the Seattle Iranian American Community Alliance to present an evening of short lectures and conversation. Featured speakers UW professors Arzoo Osanloo and David Domke will point the way to critical tools and knowledge we can use to make sense of news coverage on Iran and US-Iran relations. Click here for complete info or download a flyer.
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Julie C. and Seattle women in Hip Hop
Submitted by deepmedia on Thu, 2007-12-27 17:59- deepmedia's blog
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Seattle Times names RTM's Lawson one of the 'best of 07'
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