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August 17–24, 2000
on media
soundbites
The Independent Media Center of Philadelphia is providing updates on the protestors jailed during the Republican National Convention, including first-person accounts, on its Web site, www.phillyimc.org. And now that the Democrats’ big party is underway in L.A., local public television station WYBE-TV35 is carrying some programming from the L.A. IMC (www.indymedia.org) from 9 to 10:30 p.m.
Channel 35 also is looking for a part-time host for Your African-American Connection, a monthly installment of the station’s nightly local-issues talk show, Philly Live. Resumes, photos and tapes are due to the station by Aug. 31. For more, see www.wybe.org.
Daily News columnist Sandy Grady, Tuesday: "Al Gore’s problem was blazingly evident on the first night of the Democrats’ 2000 convention as the arena rocked for Bill Clinton’s nostalgic, rousing last hurrah. How can Al follow Bill’s act?" Hey Sandy, where ya been? Gore’s problem has been "blazingly evident" for several years now.
Think the telecommunication workers’ strike isn’t affecting Verizon (formerly Bell Atlantic)? Tuesday morning, the local weather line (215-936-1212) reported the following: "Verizon Communications brings you the latest forecast for Pittsburgh and vicinity for Tuesday, Aug. 15…"
Former Philadelphian Jill MacDowell has resigned as editor of In Pittsburgh, an alternative weekly owned by Philly-based Review Publishing. MacDowell told the Pittsburgh Business Times that she "had fundamental differences of opinion about the direction in which the paper was going," but declined to elaborate. MacDowell had served in several roles at Review Publishing’s largest alternative, Philadelphia Weekly, before taking the Pittsburgh post last year.
Online Journalism Review (ojr.usc.edu) is Webcasting live roundtable discussions of media coverage of the Democratic National Convention today (Aug. 17) and tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.
