Politickets.

A couple of issues are boiling on the front burner that have more to do with what you'll soon be able to watch and how than it may seem at first glance. When you consider that the movie that snagged the top awards at Cannes this year was made by HBO, you begin to get an inkling of how intertwined film and its media cousins really are. Never mind that the major studios are owned by even more major multinational corporations. For a clearer idea of who owns what you watch, read and listen to, make use of this handy searchable database provided by the Center for Public Integrity.

You've undoubtedly heard about that FCC meeting on Monday which will probably result, as Nikki Finke writes in the LA Weekly, in further relaxation of "longstanding ownership restrictions on Big Media so it can become Monstrous Media." Get your ire stirred further by reading Molly Ivins on the agency that's "been captured by the industry it is supposed to regulate" and then follow her over to Bob McChesney's Free Press site and register your concern.

Issue number two. Working Assets is calling on YOU to "Tell Disney to send their disposable DVD plan to the dump!"

And finally, an online viewing tip. The emperor and his vassals are getting together again and Geneva 03 is streaming "live reports from the rallies and manifestations, protests and blockades as well as studio debates and talk shows, movies and meetings, parties, vj- and dj-sessions and concerts" from now through June 3. The stream has been spotty, but it does seem that, one by one, the kinks are getting ironed out. Posted by dwhudson at May 30, 2003 9:05 AM