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Media and Broadcasting Policy

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    ACLU sues Minnewaska schools after student punished for teacher-bashing Facebook post

    ​The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnewaska Area Schools for alleged violations of a 12-year-old female student's constitutional rights.In one string of incidents, the girl was repeatedly disciplined after posting on Facebook that she "hated" a teacher who had been "mean" to her. She ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, out of Iranian prison, join Occupy Movement

    Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal: Free, and protesting.​Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal spent more than two years locked up in Iran, a country with some of the most restrictive free speech rights in the world. Now that they're back in the United States, Bauer and Fattal are flexing their First A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Bill Kling vs. KFAI: The paper trail

    Did MPR's lawyers try to sabotage KFAI's funding in the 1970s?​In 1973, a group of Minneapolis residents had an idea for a 10-watt radio station. Instead of hiring experienced radio personalities to read news or play classical music, they would open up the airwaves to other community members ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Twin Cities Pride fest, Park Board argue over free speech rights again

    Brian Johnson, center, and his family handed out bibles at last year's Pride festival.​Here we go again. Just like last year, the city has a battle brewing on its hands over free speech rights in Loring Park during the Twin Cities Pride festival. Organizers want an exclusive use permit for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Fox 9 fined by FCC for passing off General Motors PR as "news"

    Not necessarily the news.​The FCC has fined KMSP/Fox 9 $4,000 for failing to tell viewers that it passed off public relations video as "news" in 2006. The fake news segment -- a video news release, or VNR -- talked about consumer demand for convertibles in the summer. That sounds plausible en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Al Franken rips into FCC approval of Comcast-NBC merger

    Al Franken loses the Comcast-NBC merger fight.​The Comcast-NBC Universal merger got an official green light today from the Federal Communications Commission, paving the way on a 4-1 vote for another major consolidation in the telecom industry. It's a merger that Al Franken has battled from th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Al Franken: Net neutrality rules permit political censorship [UPDATE]

    Franken: Keep it neutral.​The compromise net neutrality rules just adopted by the FCC would prohibit broadband providers like Comcast and Qwest from blocking user access to websites and applications. But the measure won't do the same thing for wireless companies, and Al Franken smells censor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Rev. Brad Brandon wants his GOP endorsements to be tax exempt

    God: Now in the endorsement business via Brad Brandon.​Despite what the Rev. Brad Brandon says, his First Amendment rights are not in jeopardy. Without anyone stifling his speech, he's used his Berean Bible Baptist Church pulpit in Hastings to endorse a slate of conservative politicians. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Michele Bachmann calls net neutrality an Obama censorship plot

    ​Black is white. Peace is war. Up is down. Michele Bachmann is now asserting that the issue of Internet network neutrality, known as "net neutrality," is an evil Obama administration plot to censor the Internet. But it's exactly the opposite: Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Inter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Woodbury picket ban echoes state law

    The Woodbury City Council banned targeted residential picketing, which provoked an outcry over the squelching of First Amendment rights. But as it turns out, the state banned targeted residential picketing 16 years ago.

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Activists: new RNC police policies too watered down

    The Woodbury City Council banned targeted residential picketing, which provoked an outcry over the squelching of First Amendment rights. But as it turns out, the state banned targeted residential picketing 16 years ago.

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    Oversize PSA Driving Around Maplewood

    The Woodbury City Council banned targeted residential picketing, which provoked an outcry over the squelching of First Amendment rights. But as it turns out, the state banned targeted residential picketing 16 years ago.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2008

    Straight Talk Express derailed by deposition

    The Woodbury City Council banned targeted residential picketing, which provoked an outcry over the squelching of First Amendment rights. But as it turns out, the state banned targeted residential picketing 16 years ago.

  • News

    March 16, 2005

    Pappas: Dude, I Totally Just Blew Up Your First Amendment Rights

    The Woodbury City Council banned targeted residential picketing, which provoked an outcry over the squelching of First Amendment rights. But as it turns out, the state banned targeted residential picketing 16 years ago.

  • News

    February 16, 2005

    Clear Channel Rules the World

    How a small chain of once-struggling radio stations grew into a giant of the media/entertainment complex

  • Arts

    December 24, 2003

    Pirates of the Mississippi

    Yo Ho Ho and 70 Watts: Four Years After Broadcasting From a Tree Limb Down by the River, Local Radio Renegades Keep on Marauding

  • Music

    December 27, 2000

    Happy New Jeers

    At least this year has roused up a worthy controversy in the local club scene

  • Music

    October 4, 2000

    Signal to Noise: RPM Strikes Back

    At least this year has roused up a worthy controversy in the local club scene

  • Music

    September 20, 2000

    Revolutions Per Minute

    At least this year has roused up a worthy controversy in the local club scene

  • Music

    January 26, 2000

    Sound Check

    At least this year has roused up a worthy controversy in the local club scene

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Kelley's Big Bill

    Politicians get ready to reboot telecommunications law

  • Music

    March 3, 1999

    Fight the Power

    A new FCC proposal creates high hopes for local low-watt radio

  • Music

    February 17, 1999

    Turn Off Howard

    Howard Stern's billboard controversy; local rockers censor themselves

  • Music

    September 9, 1998

    Greazy does it

    Howard Stern's billboard controversy; local rockers censor themselves

  • Music

    August 19, 1998

    Bye-bye, Yoko

    Howard Stern's billboard controversy; local rockers censor themselves

  • Arts

    March 4, 1998

    Beating the System

    Last year the FCC shut down a scrappy, 40-watt dance station, dealing another blow to Minnesota's radio diversity. Today, Alan Freed and his Beat Radio are beaming an AM signal nationwide.

  • News

    February 4, 1998

    Quiet Storm

    Devin Miller and Thomas Ross want to do something no black person in Minnesota has done before: buy a major commercial radio station. But first they have to beat the FCC, an industry giant, and the trend toward broadcast consolidation.

  • News

    January 14, 1998

    Privacy Posturing

    US West wants to use information about who you call to increase its sales. Privacy advocates are screaming foul.

  • Feature

    November 26, 1997

    Dirty Little Hands

    Maybe it's time Americans took a page from Italy's experience. There, the anti-corruption drive "Operation Clean Hands" was placed in the hands of a permanent ethics czar to shield it from political influence.

  • News

    October 29, 1997

    Air Barbara

    With a week to go until Judgment Day, Barbara Carlson returns to her roots.

  • News

    September 24, 1997

    Don't Believe the Hype

    The Strib's corporate parent says nothing but good things will happen when they sell the paper. Where have we heard this before?

  • News

    May 21, 1997

    Shock Treatment

    It doesn't really matter whether he overtakes KQ and Tom Barnard. Either way, Howard Stern wins. And local radio loses.

  • News

    April 30, 1997

    Trouble in TV Land

    It doesn't really matter whether he overtakes KQ and Tom Barnard. Either way, Howard Stern wins. And local radio loses.

  • Music

    April 23, 1997

    Commercial Rock Radio Still Sucks

    It doesn't really matter whether he overtakes KQ and Tom Barnard. Either way, Howard Stern wins. And local radio loses.

  • Music

    October 23, 1996

    PIRATE RADIO WAVEMAKING

    It doesn't really matter whether he overtakes KQ and Tom Barnard. Either way, Howard Stern wins. And local radio loses.

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