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FlackCheck Wants SuperPacs to Stand By Their Ads
Last Friday, WNYC's On the Media featured Kathleen Hall Jamieson, of the Annenberg Public Public Center at the University Pennsylvania,...
Media Council Hawaii
Mar 12, 20121 min read
Media Ownership Comments Submitted by MCH for FCC Quadrennial Review
On Monday, Media Council Hawaii filed QR 2010 Comments with the FCC. The document is cosigned by the Benton Foundation, Common Cause,...
Media Council Hawaii
Mar 7, 20121 min read
SUNSHINE AND THE SOCIAL WEB: CITIZEN POWER THROUGH NEW MEDIA TOOLS
A Panel Discussion With: Hawaii State Senator Les Ihara, Jr. Ikaika Hussey, Publisher of The Hawaii Independent Larry Geller, Blogger at...
Media Council Hawaii
Mar 6, 20121 min read
The Importance of Hyperlinks in Web Journalism
A discussion triggered by the Wall Street Journal's failure to link to a blogger's scoop.... You many have noticed a prevalence of...
Media Council Hawaii
Feb 27, 20121 min read
UNZ12: Unconferenz Highlights
This past Saturday, Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa held the 5th annual Unconferenz at Kap'iolani Community College, and once again spurred great...
Media Council Hawaii
Feb 27, 20123 min read
The Hawaii Independent Announces Cooperative Press Venture
The Honolulu-based online news site, The Hawaii Independent, is now offering readers to an opportunity to participate in their...
Media Council Hawaii
Feb 23, 20121 min read
Tomorrow, Feb. 8th: Democracy Under the Influence Meetup with Gary Hooser
"Hearings and Horse-Trading" Wednesday, February 8, 2012 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Laniakea YWCA, Room 307. Continuing the DUI series, this...
Media Council Hawaii
Feb 7, 20121 min read
Broadband Bills To Watch This Week
This week, both House and Senate committees are scheduled to discuss bills relating to broadband internet technology. Last year, Gov....
Media Council Hawaii
Feb 6, 20121 min read
SuperPAC Transparency Bill Hearing in House Today, 2 p.m.
Today at 2 pm. in Capitol Room 325, the state House Committee on the Judiciary (JUD) will be hearing testimony on important campaign...
Media Council Hawaii
Feb 2, 20121 min read


Media Scrutiny Theater 2012
For the upcoming elections, WYNC's On the Media has brought back Media Scrutiny Theater, a political advertising version of Mystery...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 30, 20121 min read
SuperPAC Spending Will Inundate Citizens, Warns Tim Karr of FreePress
Tim Karr, Senior Strategy Director at FreePress, published a comprehensive report yesterday on campaign Ad spending entitled Citizens...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 27, 20123 min read
NPR's Neal Conan To Join Panel on Hawaii Journalistic Ethics, Feb. 28th
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation host, Neal Conan will sit with MCH Board member, and Associate Professor of Journalism at UH...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 26, 20121 min read
Water Surrounding ClearCom's Broadband Plan Is a Bit Murky
HB 2267 "RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST CLEARCOM, INC., IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BROADBAND...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 26, 20121 min read
Storified: HB2288 Committee Hearing
Hawaii's 2012 legislative session is motion and the other day I heard someone say, "bills are already moving so fast." True enough, but...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 26, 20121 min read


Hawaii Policy Portal Drafts SOPA/PIPA Online Petition
In addition to national efforts and petitions to block the passage of SOPA and PIPA, The Hawaii Policy Portal is circulating this...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 18, 20121 min read
Keeping Up With #SOPA & #PIPA Commentary
Last night at The Greenhouse, a few dozen of us watched the web's most popular sites blackout in opposition to the legislation which...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 18, 20121 min read
SOPA Talk at the Greenhouse - Tuesday, Jan. 17th 6 p.m.
We'll be there. Come join us to talk about this important issue on Intellectual Property and the future of the Internet. Click the image...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 16, 20121 min read


The Guardian's Animated SOPA Explanation
Dan Gillmor, Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media at Arizona State University, has a regular column at The Guardian that is...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 12, 20121 min read
Shared Services Strike in Ohio
"A Toledo television station is on track to be sold for more than $22 million to a company that has ties to another local station,"...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 12, 20121 min read
NYT Public Editor's Truth Question Baits Response from Journalists
"Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?" is the heading and central question Arthur Brisbane, Public Editor of The New York Times asks in...
Media Council Hawaii
Jan 12, 20121 min read
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