Rukmangathan is my colleague at Frontline. An avid surfer and the defacto systems manager - Here's his site. Still growing....

Michael Powell is leading the charge for the cabal at the FCC in the U.S. I've been following this battle. Here are a few links to related sites:

FCC Media Ownership Bill (S.J. Res 17):

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.j.res.00017:

U.S. Senate: http://www.senate.gov/

Federal Communications Commission: http://www.fcc.gov/

U.S. House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/

AP: http://www.ap.org

FCC rules: http://www.fcc.gov/ownership/

The war on terror and the U.S.
United States: 'War whores' on tour. CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour says the media as 'intimidated' into following the official line in Iraq. Veteran journalist Nicholas von Hoffman takes a tougher view...Simply put,' he argues, the US mass media 'put itself at the service of the state'.

From: Index on Censorship e-bulletin 22 September

Star ties up with Tatas for DTH
RUPERT Murdoch-owned Star Television has told the Government that the company has tied up with the Tatas for its direct-to-home (DTH) foray and would launch its services by mid-2004.