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While President Obama described the embassy as “not merely symbolic” and a move representing the liberation of the American people from “the past” in a speech this morning, the Cuban government issued a statement refusing to reestablish full diplomatic relations with the United States until America gifted the territory of Guantánamo Bay to Cuba and ceased broadcasting radio and television news reports into the island, which constitute the only way many Cubans have of receiving trustworthy international news.

Let's face it folks, we have the liberal media on the ropes. Drive by newspapers are dying. liberal broadcasts are setting record lows. Liberal cable outlets are always claiming 2nd, 3rd, etc best to Fox. So what's the next step?

BEIJING - China might bar live television broadcasts from Tiananmen Square during the Beijing Olympics, apparently unnerved by the recent outburst of unrest among Tibetans and fearful of protests in the heart of the Chinese capital. A ban on live broadcasts would wreck the plans of NBC and other major international networks, who have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcast the Aug. 8-24 games and are counting on eye-pleasing live shots from the iconic square. The rethinking of Beijing's earlier promise to broadcasters comes as the government has poured troops into Tibetan areas wracked by anti-government protests this...

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2006 – Military disc jockeys based in Afghanistan today inaugurated radio-broadcast news and other programming to an estimated in-country audience of 18,000 U.S. servicemembers, an American Forces Radio and Television Service official said here today. "There's no other radio service that they can listen to that gives them detailed information about what's happening on their base and area," Andy Friedrich, deputy director of AFRTS, said during an interview at the organization's headquarters in Alexandria, Va. Active-duty Army, Air Force and Marine radio broadcasters, technicians and administrators working out of a studio at Bagram Air Base operate...

NEW YORK - Starting next week, football fans will have a new way to listen to games: on their iPods. The National Football League on Tuesday announced an agreement with Audible Inc., an online distributor of audiobooks and other spoken-word programming, to make recordings of this year's remaining playoff games available for portable audio players, including Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. The recordings will be available for purchase through Apple's iTunes Music Store, which has an existing relationship with Audible, and other sites that sell audio over the Internet, according to the NFL and Audible. The first recordings of football games...

First U.S. Muslim Lifestyle Network in English Debuts Tuesday, November 30, 2004 A new cable network that claims to be the first U.S. Muslim lifestyle network in English debuts Tuesday. Bridges TV (search) founder and chief executive Muzzammil Hassan (search), who came to the U.S. from Pakistan in 1979, said his wife came up with the idea in December 2001 while listening to the radio on a road trip. "Some derogatory comments were being made about Muslims that offended her," Hassan told Reuters ahead of Tuesday's launch. "She was seven months pregnant, and she thought she didn't want her kids...

Abbas Orders Halt to Anti-Israel Propaganda Tuesday, November 30, 2004 JERUSALEM — The interim Palestinian leader has ordered government-controlled media to halt broadcasts of material that could incite hatred against Israel, Palestinian officials said Tuesday. The directive by Mahmoud Abbas (search) meets a key demand by Israel, which has long accused the Palestinian media of fomenting hatred, and adds to the tentative signs of goodwill that have emerged since the death of Yasser Arafat (search) on Nov. 11. Radwan Abu Ayyash, head of Palestinian radio and television, said that at the request of Abbas, widely known as Abu Mazen, he...

Russian TV broadcasts siege video Watch the video Dramatic video footage of inside the school in Beslan during the siege has been aired on Russian television. It shows adults and children packed into the school gymnasium as heavily-armed, masked men walk around the room. Explosives, apparently wired and ready for use, lie on the floor while others are looped around basketball hoops at either end of the gym. Russia's NTV network, the first to broadcast the video clip, said it had been recorded by the hostage-takers. The network did not explain how it obtained the pictures. The footage shows hundreds...

WASHINGTON - President Bush will try to overcome Cuban jamming of U.S. government radio and television stations by flying military aircraft capable of broadcasting signals to the island, a senior administration official said Wednesday. The two stations, known as Radio Marti and TV Marti, are tailored for Cuban audiences but have been subjected to widespread jamming, especially the TV operation. Bush is expected to announce the plan Thursday as part of a series of measures toughening Cuba policy. They will be based on a report by a government commission created six months ago by Bush and headed by Secretary of...

Cuba has told the United States that an Iranian diplomatic facility in or near Havana was the source of the jamming that disrupted US Farsi-language satellite broadcasts to Iran last month, the State Department said. And, in an unusual display of cooperation between the Cold War enemies, Havana appears to have actually acted on pledges to halt the interference which had prompted a formal protest from Washington, it said. "It has ceased," said Jo-Anne Prokopowicz, a department spokeswoman. After denying that it was responsible for the jamming but pledging to investigate the US complaints in mid-July, Cuba told the United...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2002 -- The U.S. military has stepped up its information campaign to inform the Iraqi people and military forces of their leader's treachery and the consequences of supporting him. U.S. Air Force EC-130E Commando Solo planes since Dec. 12 have been broadcasting messages into Iraq. A Defense Department spokesman stressed the planes are not flying in Iraqi airspace, not even in the no-fly zones in the country's north and south. At least nine separate messages are being broadcast at various times of day. Leaflets dropped over the country advise people what frequencies to tune into. Messages aimed...