Category: TV, Radio, Web
Britain Bans Press TV
For the first time, British government censors have banned a 24-hour news channel from British viewers. As of the afternoon, UK-time, 20th January 2012, viewers of Press TV, an avowedly anti-imperialist TV channel headquartered in Tehran and featuring many of
Event: Deaths in Custody – A Case to Answer (please show support)
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism invites you to the launch of its six-month investigation into deaths in police custody. The Bureau’s investigation will also air at 8pm on BBC Radio 4’s flagship investigations programme, File on 4.
New: 4WardEver Tweeters Daily launched
Check it out! This facility grabs news, headlines, images and viudeo submitted on Twitter by our followers and displays them in a news-format website for easier browsing and searching.
PayPal pulls plug on WikiLeaks donations
WikiLeaks has had its donation services pulled by eBay-owned payment service PayPal, effectively cutting off the site's funding. PayPal said in a statement that its services could not be used to "encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in
Films by young people: Get Animated about Youth Justice
Working with the U R Boss team and a professional animator, groups of young people wrote, produced and directed three new animated short films tackling the issues that really matter to them in youth justice.
ABC dumps cop show in wake of Aiyana Jones Detroit shooting
Disney-owned ABC's new scripted cop drama "Detroit 1-8-7" dropped its "documentary" conceit as a result of the shooting death of a Detroit child during a police raid being recorded by cameras for a reality series on a Disney co-owned cable
Ray Hill celebrates 30 years of building hope on Prison Show
Ray Hill was the stand-in groom, and for the wedding he draped a sport coat over his radio station T-shirt. The real husband-to-be couldn't make the ceremony.
One2Watch: Lost Abroad, The Parents’ Story – Channel 4
One to Watch: It's every parent's nightmare. They wave their grown-up children off on an overseas adventure of a lifetime and never see them again. Cutting Edge follows the story of two families whose children died abroad, and their quest
Gary Glitter ‘Executed’ In Channel 4 Film
Shamed pop star Gary Glitter is to be "executed" in a new television programme examining capital punishment. The 90-minute Channel 4 film reintroduces the death penalty to Britain and explores public attitudes to it.
Radio Show: The case of political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal
Listen to the Root Radio show on New School Radio Network charting the life and times of Mumia Abu Jamal, still languishing on an unjust life prison sentence: In an environment filled with an infinite array of people, works, customs,
