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Welcome Bill Mandel back to KPFA, 94.1 FM, Sunday, June 12 at 6:30 p.m., right after the 6 p.m. news. He will discuss what is going on in the other major nuclear power of the planet, namely Russia, with guest speakers. Bill is a lifelong expert in Russian & Eastern European politics and is fluent in Russian. And right now, at 9 a.m., Matt Gonzalez is due to host the Sunday Salon show with Catherine Austin Fitts & many other muckrakers....
Posted: Sun, Jun 12, 2005 8:55am PDT
KPFA is in serious trouble. Reports of violence and sexual harrasment suits keep emerging from a growing cloud of abuse and discontent at the cornerstone of progressive broadcasting....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 3:49pm PDT
We need to take the Golden Opportunity while Lord Bensky is away . . ....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 10:25am PDT
Keep your right for having low cost universal internet access. Please send a message to oppose HR 2726....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 1:13am PDT
Worth listening to and calling in . . . they started off talking about Moyers and his speech . . ....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 10:41am PDT
KPFA's 4 pm News headlines today, read by Max Pringle, began with another example of how KPFA News is often as bad as, if more subtle than, NPR and other ruling-class media in its reinforcement of government propaganda. Here's the transcript and my brief commentary....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 7:21pm PDT
A story about free e-mail....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 4:44pm PDT
Foreign media is quick to identify trends in America....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 2:12pm PDT
Since ostensiblly winning a campaign to recapture the small progressive Pacifica network that spanned years, involving at one time three seperate lawsuits, and 10's of thousands of its active listerners, the tiny network is once again at war with itself.....Having, along with senior producer Ryme Kakthouda, joined in filing complaints of discrimination on basis of national origin and ethnicity at the last meeting of our national board in NYC,
(http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/12052...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 3:24am PDT
California's only 24 hour Pirate Tv Station Celebrates 6 months on the air...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 8:59pm PDT
Tim Robbins is Guest on Media program (Live)...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 11:03am PDT
A story about monthly mobile phone plans....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 10:52am PDT
American writers have always held that the Arab World is full of dictatorship. They accuse the Arabs of living in a huge prison where newspapers and magazines publish nothing but propaganda and are always pro-government. They boast about how free the American press is, and how it answers to no one, being a power in its own right in America. And then comes the latest American scandal: The White House pressures Newsweek to retract an article it published about mishandling the Holy Qur’an....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 6:58am PDT
Media quickly drops stories critical of Bush administration...
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 9:53am PDT
Gore Vidal will speak about current events and the media on Robert McChesney's Weekly Program about Democracy and the Media...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 11:43pm PDT
In the game of claim and blame that has followed political changes in the Middle East, eastern Europe and central Asia, there have been some silly and even dangerous assertions. The changes have been lauded by Bush supporters as unambiguously democratic, and as direct consequences of the president's determination to spread freedom round the world. Governments that have lost power, those who fear they may do so, and their allies, such as Russia, plus a few critics in the west, see no freedom, ...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 9:13am PDT
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Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 11:34am PDT
This is an article written to address and expose the mainstream news media's use of fear to sell products and stories, and to keep the public under control....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 3:27pm PDT
Last week the White House charged that "people lost their lives" because of an inaccurate Newsweek report on the desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo. Media analysts Norman Solomon and Michael Massing discuss government pressure on journalists and the media's coverage in the lead up to the Iraq war....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 12:56pm PDT