Afghan media refuse to censor election reporting

Afghan journalists charged Wednesday that their government was violating the constitution by trying to censor reports of violence on election day, and they vowed to flout the order issued by an administration that appears increasingly hostile toward the media.

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Foreign broadcasters walk a fine line in Iran

Inside the studios of BBC Persian television, dozens of journalists have been working around the clock at their computers and telephones, trying to report the news to Iran — or, according to the government in Tehran, stirring up trouble.

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Founder buys ailing Conn. School of Broadcasting

The founder of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting has won approval to buy back the bankrupt business he started 45 years ago and plans to reopen campuses in seven states.

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Broadcasting school had 26 locations

Connecticut School of Broadcasting campuses:

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Broadcasters Channeled $9M Into Lobbying

The National Association of Broadcasters spent nearly $9 million in 2007 to lobby on digital TV, cable and satellite radio matters.

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Lawmakers: Dismiss Broadcasting Official

Three congressional Democrats asked President Bush on Wednesday to dismiss the head of the agency that oversees government broadcasts, who is accused of misusing government money, overbilling for his time and hiring a friend as a consultant.

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Jerome Bettis Looking at Broadcasting Jobs

Jerome Bettis is ready to make a run at a new career. The bruising running back said Wednesday he has spoken to Fox about joining the network's NFL broadcast team. Bettis retired after the Pittsburgh Steelers beat Seattle 21-10 in the Super Bowl this month.

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President Barack Obama has tapped a former top aide of his predecessor George W.

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There's a Difference Between Mostly Dead and Really Dead

I seldom think of those idiots in faux broadcasting positions be it radio, television or print.

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ESPN broadcaster Bob Griese has been suspended one week for a remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz says Griese will not be working a game this week.

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The mounds of disrespect; of disregard; of disgust. "What kept me going through all the years?" she asks -- then pauses for a moment's reflection. "More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this."

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A Book Review - MURROW: his life and times

– A biography, par excellence! - Forsyth, GA Reference Information for the Book Name of Book:Murrow: His Life & Times Author Name:A.M. Sperber Publisher: Freundlich Books, NY, © A.M. Sperber, 1986 Year Released and/or ISBN Number: Type of Book

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With difficult credit markets and an unclear future, talk of dealmaking has been at a minimum this year. Yet there has never been a more important time for media conglomerates and their financiers to act and adapt to the Internet age.

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The Performance Royalty Poll

Last night, I was watching Ashton Kutcher's "Punked;" filmed in 2003, he played the most elaborate practical joke on Justin Timberlake - he had the poor, unsuspecting singer convinced that his homes and all of his possessions under seige from the Federal Government due to unpaid  …

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Talk radio industry is about to be hit with earthquake-inducing changes in rating system.

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We don't know if Susan Boyle will win Britains' Got Talent, but she has dominated a new poll of memorable TV moments of the past year. She took almost 25 percent of the votes.

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Turkey's state broadcaster plans to launch an Armenian-language radio station, Anatolian state news agency said on Friday, amid tentative moves by Turkey and its neighbour Armenia towards restoring diplomatic ties.

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Paul Harvey's Passing is a Loss for U.S. News

Can anyone replace Paul Harvey as a newscaster in the United States? You probably read or heard that the famous news broadcaster passed away yesterday, February 28, 2009, at the age of 90. I am 51 and in a sense feel I grew up with him.

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The UK's C4 had a documentary from their Dispatches series titled Unseen Gaza last night. UK viewers who missed it can catch up via the link in this seed. This blog poses one of the questions that the documentary touched on.

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No more batteries, no more chargers and no more wire spaghetti. This is the future promised by "wireless power", a means of broadcasting electricity through the air to laptops, iPods and other gadgets without the need for cables and sockets.

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...the new watch phone at the Consumer Electronics Show. More Articles

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A man obsessed with missing child cases has become an Internet celebrity after purchasing an old TV news live truck, mounting cameras to its mast and broadcasting live images from areas involved in the search for Caylee Anthony on his Web site.

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On Thursday morning, 52,000 households in the Scottish Borders will wake up to the dawn of the new digital era.

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If you thought that the battle over white space devices might cool down after the Federal Communications Commission issued its own engineering report on the technology, think again.

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CNN has chosen Abu Dhabi as the site of a new broadcast facility to match its international hubs in London, Hong Kong and Mexico City, as the network seeks to cut its reliance on other news organisations.

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The RNC isn't even trying to pretend like they are independent from their media arm, Fox "News", anymore, apparently. Here's today's RNC press release. It's, quite literally, a transcript of this morning's Fox & Friends

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BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster's commercial arm, could be handed over in its entirety to Channel 4, according to official proposals to plug a funding gap of up to £235m in public service broadcasting.

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The NAB may claim it is afraid of interference, but the reality is its members don't want to give up control of airwaves they believe are theirs.

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Skip Caray, a voice of the Atlanta Braves for 33 years and part of a family line of baseball broadcasters that included Hall of Famer Harry Caray, died in his sleep at home on Sunday, the team said. He was 68.

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The BBC has just released its next MusicBrainz enabled feature: Dynamic artist pages. You can see how often your favorite artists have been played on the BBC networks since last year. Turns out Coldplay is quite popular.

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The McCain campaign released a video online that makes fun of the Media Industry's obsessive, one-sided, positive coverage of Obama.

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