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Senator Rubio tells Tampa audience recent Obama administration scandals are due to political culture listen
05/20/13 Naveen SultanWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Marco Rubio, Republican Party, Republican Party of Hillsborough County, immigration, Benghazi, IRS, media
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke in Tampa on Saturday, but instead of focusing on immigration reform he railed against the recent IRS, AP and Benghazi scandals. At the Hillsborough County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner Rubio said he is concerned about excessive government. He said the Obama administration’s criticism of the GOP has created a culture of politics that is responsible for these scandals.
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Tampa activist receives thank-you letter from Bradley Manning; direct action planned at MacDill AFB listen
05/08/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, media, Julian Assange, MacDill Air Force Base, direct action, civil disobedience, CENTCOM, Iraq, Afghanistan
In Tampa supporters of Private Bradley Manning are planning direct action outside MacDill Air Force base on June 1. MacDill is the home of U.S. Central Command. It’s part of a nationwide coordinated day of action and is being organized locally by the Tampa Bay Bradley Manning Support Network.
From his prison cell, Manning recently thanked an active member o...
1 commentsWikiLeaks releases searchable database of mid-70s diplomatic files listen
04/08/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, media, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Julian Assange, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger
More than 1.7 million diplomatic documents are now online in a searchable database thanks to the document-leaking website WikiLeaks. They have merged those declassified U.S. state department documents from the mid 1970s with a quarter of a million previously leaked diplomatic cables known as Cablegate.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the release by video conference from inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London this morning.
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Race Baiter: Eric Deggans on race and media listen
03/15/13 Christopher DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: race, media, Eric Deggans
The news media sometimes covers issues of race -- but a recent book looks at whether that coverage can actually hurt race relations.
WMNF's Christopher Davis interviewed Tampa Bay Times media critic, Eric Deggans, after a community conversation on the topic last night at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg. Deggans' book is called Race Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.
Be the first to commentListen to full audio of Bradley Manning's court statement
03/12/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, media, Freedom of the Press Foundation
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has released a leaked audio recording of the entire statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Manning talks about why he leaked documents, including what Wikileaks calls the "Collateral Murder" video of journalists being killed in Iraq by the U.S. military.
Here's a link to the text of [Bradley Manning's full statement, trans...
Be the first to commentThe Pier; and Tampa Bay Times controversial story of a woman who ended up killing herself
12/06/12 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: The Lens, the Pier, Leslie Curran, Peter Schorsch, Tampa Bay Times, media, St. Pete
Shortly after the St. Pete City Council voted to support funding to continue the design and pre-construction work on the new design for the Pier called the Lens, Council Chair Leslie Curran spoke to us about the recent design changes made by L.A. based architect Michael Maltzan's firm.
Later in the show local political blogger Peter Schorsch (stpetersblog 2.0) came on the program to defend himself from the recent criticism he received after he criticized the "Tampa Bay Times" and their sto...
Be the first to commentLow-power FM radio stations could be coming soon to your community
12/05/12 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: media, LPFM, radio, community radio, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, low-power FM
Last Friday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it would open up licenses for new low-power FM (LPFM) radio stations beginning next October.
My guest on Last Call is Brandy Doyle, policy director for the Prometheus Radio Project.
Be the first to commentCivil rights and union leaders urge FCC to slow changes to media ownership rules listen
11/28/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: FCC, media, media consolidation, Free Press, Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission wants to lift some limits on one company owning several media organizations in the same market. But a coalition of unions and civil rights leaders is urging the FCC to slow things down until it analyzes the impact of the proposed changes on women and people of color.
In a teleconference with reporters today Craig Aaron, president and CEO of t...
Be the first to commentListeners weigh in on media consolidation
11/28/12 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: FCC, media, media consolidation, Free Press, Federal Communications Commission, Jesse Jackson
Today on Last Call we heard from listeners about media consolidation.
On the WMNF drive-time news we played part of a conference call. The Federal Communications Commission plans to lift some limits on one company owning several media organizations in the same market. But a coalition of unions and civil rights leaders is urging the FCC to slow things down until it analyzes ...
Be the first to commentVoters outraged over anti-Obama lies advertised in Sarasota newspaper listen
09/27/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, elections, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, smear campaigns, GING-PAC, media, ethics
More than 50 people lashed out at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune Thursday afternoon over a an anti-Obama ad that ran in Sunday’s paper. At a protest in front of the Sarasota paper’s office, the group set out to debunk false claims about the president.
The ad listed 11 things President Obama will “move America to”. PolitiFact researched nine of the statements and found that none of them were true. Among the claims that received Politifact’s lowest rating, Pants on Fire - Obama would force ...
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