October 21, 2010 | Uncategorized |
A week after the controversy over the Obama administration’s decision to invite Black bloggers and Black media to a summit at the White House, the administration is not backing down from critics saying the White House is pandering for the Black vote. In fact, The Root reports the administration has defended the summit and its […]
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Tags: Black Bloggers, black media, DNC, get out the vote, hispanic voters, Obama, obama administration, Radio ad, univision, White House
October 20, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Politico is reporting: The Spanish-language network Univision has refused to air an ad from a GOP-led Hispanic group telling Hispanic voters to sit out the race between Sharron Angle and Harry Reid. “Univision will not be running any spots from Latinos for Reform related to voting,” said a spokeswoman for the network, Monica Talan, in […]
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Tags: advertisement, mid term elections, national hispanic media commission, national latino media coalition, univision, voting
October 16, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Well…not really, this week I discovered 4 other people who have blog names that are essentially their first and/or last name and the word speaks.com behind it as in mine: Jenebaspeaks.com I thought that was a unique idea when suggested to me by a friend…hmm that was until I decided today to do a simple […]
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Tags: domain names, motivational speaker, speaks.com
October 15, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I was one of the 22 Bloggers who attended the White House Summit with African American bloggers this past Monday. I was literally plucked off of the C-list when the founder and CEO of Black Web Media, Angela Benton, couldn’t attend the summit. One of her 2 picks to go also couldn’t attend the event […]
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Tags: Black Bloggers, black media, journalism, media exclusion, White House
October 14, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The FCC will conduct its annual Capitalization Strategies Workshop on November 12, 2010, from 9:00am until 4:30pm in the FCC Commission Meeting Room. We will have panel discussions in the morning by private venture capitalists and a panel to discuss government funding of businesses. We will also have breakout sessions in the afternoon for those […]
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October 14, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Bloomberg News is reporting… TV blackouts in the U.S. have reached the highest level in a decade and may climb as pay-TV operators fight higher fees sought by content providers. Disputes over fees have caused five blackouts this year, the most since 2000. They have affected about 19 million pay-TV subscribers, leaving some viewers without […]
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Tags: black out, bloomberg, broadcasters, cable, cable retransmission, cable television, fees dispute
October 14, 2010 | Digital Entrepreneurs |
Politic365.com reports: Today, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (“MMTC”) announced that it, along with 24 National Organizations representing the interests of minorities and women across the country, filed comments before the Federal Communications Commission regarding its further inquiry into two underdeveloped issues in the Open Internet proceeding. According to David Honig, President and Executive […]
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Tags: Broadband, Davig Honig, minority media & telecommunications council, MMTC, Net Neutrality, Network Neutrality, open intenet
October 12, 2010 | Uncategorized |
When the CEO and another top contributor for Black Web Media could not attend the African American Online Summit at the White House yesterday, I jumped at the opportunity to represent the media conglomerate that publishes and is associated with other influential quality media outlets such as Politic365.com, Black Web 2.0 and the Professional Black […]
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Tags: African American online media, barack obama, black media, president obama, White House
October 12, 2010 | Uncategorized |
As we head into the mid-term elections, more people may be paying attention to the “political pundits” on the nightly news, listening to and watching campaign ads and tuning into broadcast and cable news shows that cover politics. In the interest to gain more news and information about candidates up for office in their respective […]
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Tags: define partisan, enthusiasm gap, fiscal conservative, fiscal conservative defined, idioms, inside the beltway, obamacare, political, political idiom dictionary, political tsunami, potus, progressive, read out, social moderate define, teabaggers, teachable moment
October 8, 2010 | Uncategorized |
To accompany my Political Idiom for Dummies post forthcoming, listen to this week’s rant on my Blog Talk Radio show Right of Black about the overuse of a new political idiom, “tsunami.” Listen to it HERE! Jeneba “JJ Ghatt”,is editor at Jenebapeaks.com, an online hub where she helps social media butterfly who empowers digital entrepreneurs and […]
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Tags: mainstream media, media, political idiom, political terms, tsunami