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"A coalition of public interest organizations - including the Center for Media Justice, Center for Rural Strategies, Free Press, Media Access Project, Media Alliance and many more - have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asking that the Commission make increased diversity in the media and broadband communications landscape a top priority."

The review provides an Introduction to the growing pervasiveness of Google and its effect on traditional media as analyzed in the book by Auletta, a long-time media analyst.

Discussion of the increasing amounts the average American household spends on cable, internet and gaming connections annually. Of special note is the lucrative nature of the subscription model for the media industry.

""We believe that the near future will dictate seamless single-device applications for the consumer, which is why we are committed to the media convergence space," said Bobby Cha, chief marketing officer at Inbrics."

"Media powerhouse News Corp is run by Rupert Murdoch. It owns - among other things -- Harper Collins, the \nWall Street Journal, 20th Century Fox, Hulu, MySpace and a host of other media outlets. Now News Corp and its MySpace CEO suddenly part ways. Why?"

The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, combines in a single piece of legislation provisions from around the world: whistle-blower laws and rules about Internet providers from the United States; source protection laws from Belgium; freedom of information laws from Estonia and Scotland, among others; and New York State's law to counteract "libel tourism," the practice of suing in courts, like Britain's, where journalists have the hardest time prevailing.

"In a lengthy article in New York magazine that hit the Web late on Sunday, writer Gabriel Sherman quotes a source high up in the media industry echelon who says Murdoch is "pretty tightly wound up over Google and has been ready to sue them...He doesn't trust them at all." The lawsuit, presumably, would come if Google refused to stop indexing News Corp. search results without paying a fee for them."

President Obama's 2009 stimulus package was the most expensive bill in history, yet received strong media support. This is because the media; ABC, CBS, and NBC cite supporters of the bill 3 times as often as they mention critics, and nearly half of their reports included no criticism about the bill at all!

Media Decoder of the New York Times explores why the 2010 Winter Olympics may be the first loss on Olympics broadcast in NBC's history.

The FCC is holding a Mrch 4 workshop to examine the future to media industries.

The University of California at Los Angeles on Wednesday announced that it will continue streaming copyrighted videos in online "virtual classrooms" despite legal objections from an educational media trade group. The university's decision is the latest development in a copyright dispute with the Association for Information and Media Equipment over whether it is legal for the university to convert DVDs from its libraries into a digital format that students can stream from password-protected course Web sites. UCLA considers the practice "essential," since it allows students to watch the videos on their own computers and on their own time, rather than having to gather in a classroom. Many educators at other colleges have watched the case with intent, waiting to see what implications, if any, the spat might have on their own institutions' use of streaming video.

Article discussing the FCC's effort to help the trouble media business by relaxing the cross-ownership restrictions.

Two dozen minority interest groups sign letter to FCC Chariman advocating for changes in FCC policy to promote media diversity. Details declines in minority radio ownership and includes several policy suggestions.

Public hearings about media consolidation nearing the end of the Bush Regime in Seattle, Washington. The public was given rather short notice before the hearing, effectively preventing them to be an effective force in the hearings.

The XBox moves into cable TV turf. What does it mean for the industry?

Can the media really be watchdogs for us when the government is unwilling to provide the media with information?

Several broadcast companies that reported earnings the past few weeks have pointed out that TV station revenues were down due to the lack of political ad spending in 2009. Since 2010 is a banner year for major Congressional races, local media researcher Borrell Associates expects that TV broadcasters will have something to cheer about. The same can't be said for online media, which will hardly see a fraction of the total $42 billion Borrell says will be spent on political campaigns.

On the same day that the Federal Communications Commission launched its Future of Media initiative, FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker said in a Washington D.C. speech that government needs to stay out of the media business mess.

Decreasing government subsidies to media organization is threatening the publishing industry. These subsidies include things like postal rate discounts and tax breaks.

"The FCC Media Bureau said it would hold a media ownership workshop Feb. 23, 2010, at the South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C. The two-panel workshop, scheduled from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m., will explore local television and radio marketplace issues as part of the commission's quadrennial review of its broadcast ownership rules."