KPFA Local Station Board Report - Media Democracy - Tonight at 9pm

This is going to be one hell of an interesting last minute show. We've got James Owens on the history of the racial and economic politics of professional journalism and Scott Sanders on the history of public media and how it doesn't intersect with structural democracy. They are both media activists. They care about this and are quite articulate.

We will briefly report on what happened at the last LSB meeting as well; our election sup will be on briefly to remind people on how to get their ballots in on time and the Thursday station drop off.

Please call in when the lines are open but beware that two of the call in lines will be taken up by the guests. So keep trying if you get a busy signal: 510-848-4425.

Scott Sanders has co-founded a number of media activist organizations including Chicago Media Action, and led efforts to constitute public community media centers with member elected boards and to increase diversity on non-elected public media boards. He also led campaigns resulting in the only FCC fine of a major public tv station concerning commercialism. He is a video documentarian and periodicals and technology librarian producing research for MMTC, MAP, and the University of Chicago, and author of articles for Truthout, Counterpunch, Z magazine, FAIR Extra!, and a number of daily newspapers.

James Owens is an organizer, media coordinator and researcher active in movements for human rights and against war. His master’s thesis researched the racial and economic politics of professional journalism. He authored “Chicago Tonight: Elites, Affluence, and Advertising” (Extra!), “Mumia Abu-Jamal: The ABC Hatchet Job” (CovertAction Quarterly)), and co-authored “Journalism” for the International Encyclopedia of Communication. He also co-founded peace and media organizations, including Chicago Media Action.

From Sasha Futran, KPFA LSB Listener Representative
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