Media Minutes: August 18, 2006

By Anonymous (not verified) , 18 August, 2006
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John Anderson

A weekly review of news at the intersection of media and democracy.

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In this week's program: The FCC opens inquiries into television stations caught airing fake news, and more evidence of continued journalistic deception is on the way. The Supreme Court agrees to hear an anti-trust case involving the nation’s dominant phone companies. A federal judge strikes down the NSA’s warrentless wiretapping program as unconstitutional, while several lawsuits alleging telecom complicity in the scheme are consolidated.

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