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Noticias Independientes Bajo Ataque/ Independent News in Spanish Under Attack
by danielsan
Monday Aug 31st, 2009 7:47 PM
Alerta: Fernando Velasquez del Informativo Pacifica de KPFK habla sobre la cancelacion potencial de esta recurso comunitario muy importante, y los poderes que esta en oposicion a la transmision en aire de las voces de hispanohablantes.
Alert: Fernando Velasquez of KPFK's Informativo Pacifica talks about the potential cancellation of this important community resource and the powers that oppose broadcasting independent spanish speaking voices on the air.
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Fernando habla de la historia del conflicot en la red Pacifica y especificamente en KPFK, tocando en la organizacion de bloques de programacion en espanol, el poder de programistas con mucho tiempo con la estacion, las demandas de ganancias, y el intercambio de programas en espanol con noticias britanicas o transmisiones de shows que repiten, todo en el contexto de los conflictos para determinar el futuro de la red nacional Pacifica y las noticias independientes en espanol.

Fernando talks about the history of the conflict at Pacifica and KPFK in particular, including early attempts to organize around Spanish language programming blocks, controversies including the power of long-time programmers to determine schedules, fundraising demands, and the replacement of spanish language programming with BBC news or rebroadcasts of other programs, all in the context of the ongoing power struggles over the direction of Pacifica Stations nationwide and and future of independent Spanish language news.
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Those who get shifted, not shafted, always accuse blame and revoltthose who listenMonday Sep 21st, 2009 3:44 PM