Hawaii Legislature Threatens Freedom of Information with SB 2858

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Media Council Hawaii

Beverly Deepe Keever

Media Council Hawaii, along with 16 other community organizations are appealing to the state legislature on SB 2858.  In her OpEd at Civil Beat today, UH Manoa Professor emerita Beverly Deepe Keever explained problems with the bill. She said there are “portions of the bill that would permit a government agency to go to court to contest an official agency’s decision compelling disclosure to the public of a record to which the law entitles it.” We agree.

“Retaining FOIA in the existing bill,” said Keever. “Would unnecessarily weaken OIP’s powers, waste limited resources of OIP and other agencies, and make it even more difficult for citizens to obtain government records in a timely manner.

Read the complete OpEd here and follow the bill here.

 

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Public File Inspection: Cleveland TV Stations Don’t Like TV Cameras

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Media Council Hawaii

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Hispanic Media Group Publishes Exposé on Alleged Clear Channel Radio Hate Speech

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Media Council Hawaii

In a release yesterday, the National Hispanic Media Coalition announced the publication of an exposé into “Clear Channel Radio’s appalling record of trafficking hate.” The Coalition says that although the United States is more diverse than ever before Clear Channel Radio, “has a full lineup of hate pundits.” In the report, the NHMC cites hate speech by hosts Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cunningham, John Kobylt, Kenneth Chiampou and others.

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Will Your Phone Tell You How to Vote?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Bobby Lambrix

Like an oncoming storm seen in the distance, SuperPAC advertising dollars have some of us worried about where, and how deep, this precipitation will penetrate our media spheres in the coming months. As voters we can expect an influx of candidate ads in print, television radio and online this election cycle. But aside from a campaign robo-call, I have yet to consider the mobile advertising inplications of the campaigns. Today’s, New York Times‘ Media Decoder blog post highlights 2011 mobile advertising revenue and raised my eyebrows.

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AAJA Film Screening of Vincent Who? May 1st, Laniakea YWCA

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Media Council Hawaii

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The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Hawaii chapter, Media Council Hawaii and other organizations will present a screening of the award-winning documentary film Vincent Who? at the YWCA Laniakea. The screening will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in Fuller Hall. After the film,  filmmaker Curtis Chin, civil rights expert and attorney Mari Matsuda, and community organizer and attorney Hoyt Zia will lead a panel discussion on the issues in the film.

 

 

 

 

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Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Launches SuperPAC Ad Rocket at PBS

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Media Council Hawaii

Aside the news of North Korea’s fireworks show failed rocket launch, a recent ruling in political advertising is threatening regime change in sovereign American. The New York Times reported that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed an old ruling “that public television and radio stations could not be prohibited from broadcasting paid political advertisements.”

The ruling would allow organizations like SuperPACs, to begin advertising on public TV and radio stations. On the three-judge panel,  the justices were split, reported David Lieberman of Deadline New York. “Judge Richard Paez said, in a dissent, that ‘for almost 60 years, noncommercial broadcasters have been effectively insulated from the lure of paid advertising.’”

In Reuters’ report, American Enterprise Institute scholar Norman Ornstein, is quoted saying, the decision could “fundamentally change the character of public television and radio.” The FreePress has already begun an effort urging supporters to sign a petition to stop “polluting public programming with these misleading and negative ads” by SuperPACs.

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Community Media Maps Highlight Gap of Public File Info from Hawaii TV Stations

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Media Council Hawaii

Map courtesy of Community Media Database, via the New America Foundation.

At left, are two maps of Hawaii television stations. The first shows all stations in the state, while the second has only stations where public file information has been collected and scanned. These maps are part of the  Community Media Database pilot project designed to collect and present information about community media providers in the United States.

To aid in the FCC’s effort of getting television public file information online, the Community Media Database has created the map of U.S. community media providers by management type, using the National Center for Media Engagement’s mapping tool. The map contains over 2,000 community access television providers and over 800 Low Power FM radio stations.

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