tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103125722009-04-06T08:53:57.458-07:00Fighting the weaponization of mediaBlogAdminnoreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312572.post-44171388528664080762008-11-26T10:35:00.001-08:002008-11-26T10:37:40.264-08:00

Pacifica Radio's Local Station Boards are all atwitter with the news that the foundation is broke, and plans to seek a $1 million bank loan. The collateral is said to be KPFK's building in Los Angeles, which also houses the Pacifica Archives. That is all. Developing...

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Well, you're only stretching it a little to say a resounding YES!!!!! Take off that foil hat. This one's for real. Check out this blog and be afraid:25 November 2008...9:36 amMoving America Bass-ackwardsWell, tonight’s news showed the new “Thank you Sarah” ad from a new astroturf[*] group called “Our Country Deserves Better PAC.”And you know, something made my little reporter’s “HUNCH” arrow

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Its official. Pentagon money and influence were going into keeping up the desired spin in the US news media. Everything you ever suspected is true. "Military analysts," you know, those guys who are always on the news cheerleading for whatever war the POTUS has started now, were practically on the payroll.NYT:Message MachineBehind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand By DAVID BARSTOWPublished:

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Goodbye Air America Radio.The new boss is actually NOT same as the old boss.He's worse.Now, Randi Rhodes had been looking to get out of her contract for quite some time. She hated Air America and they hated her. She had issues with management from day one. First she thought Al Franken was a weak lead in, then she thought they should have promoted her show more, then she decided she hated New

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Or you have to be Clear Channel Radio, apparently. Has ideology finally trumped common sense at one of CC's best rating turnarounds using the progressive talk format? Or is it just another questionable business decision motivated by a possibly faltering buyout?According to NonStop Radio, the persistent rumors are now truth:SAN DIEGO, WAKE UP!KLSD AM IS ABOUT TO GO DARKSan Diego, it has been

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No partial birth abortions for NBC. They delivered the Antichrist, alive and healthy, and now they're going oops.They seem to want it both ways. It's almost as if they're going, "Sure we won the ratings, big-time, after we got lucky the psycho killer chose us, even with the wrong ZIP code, but now we regret any further trauma this material has caused anyone....."The hell they do. I strongly

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I hate going to bed with one set of facts and waking up the next morning to find out they were all wrong.Oh, they got one thing right. Someone shot up a university campus. That's about all they reported accurately. In the evening, the shooter was a Chinese national on a student visa who had entered through San Francisco a few months ago, and who didn't attend the university. We all know what

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In the old USSR, it was never a good thing to remember too much. History had a way of changing... Orwell's Memory Hole.The USSR is gone, or is it? Now we discover, from an article in the Huffington Post, that Katrina never happened. At least it never happened on Google Maps, which the HuffPo writer notes have oddly and disconcertingly reverted to the satellite images used before Katrina. No

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Remember when Communism was bad because it denied its people free access to information, and spoon-fed them the government line while shutting out news from the rest of the world?That was then. This, apparently, is now.Offered here, without further comment, is a screen capture from the Time Magazine web site:

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Right now is probably the most critical moment in geopolitics since Hitler invaded Poland, and we are not being told what is going on. Apparently, everyone else in the world knows something that is being carefully withheld from the American people. What is it?It strongly appears that Iran is reaching climax. A Russian military source seems to have deliberately leaked the US plans for a surprise

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Background:The Los Angeles Times has sucked since the Tribune bought it from the Chandlers after that L.A. aristocratic family had a power struggle. Currently, the Times is a mess, with (someone counted) 12 different fonts on the front page, and an ongoing meltdown of what used to be a decent op-ed page. This latter disaster has often been politically motivated, purging progressive writers (

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You've undoubtedly heard as much as you want to about the box office phenom called "300," in which a few computer-generated Spartan warriors hold off the entire Persian army way back in history when swords were the WMD, aided only by courage and about 1300 special effects shots. However, here's more.Persia, as most people might know, is Iran. That's right, a movie about a war with Iran is

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The I's are dotted and the T's are crossed on the Green family's purchase of Air America Radio.This blog had been silent, while others breathlessly reported the rumors, legal maneuvers, deal killing attempts, and general lawyering surrounding anything to do with Air America Radio, or radio in general for that matter. Now the rumors are over, and we can report facts. As always, there

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That didn't take long. The expected bidding situation took place in bankruptcy court today, and the bankruptcy judge approved the resulting sale of parent corporation Piquant, LLC. This leaves the expected Green and Green buyers with control, giving a minority stake to Glaser and two former board members.This transaction comes at the absolute last minute, saving AAR from shutting down and

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A month ago, this blog reported a deal to buy poor Air America Radio and finally put its present management out of its misery (and into the money required to buy them out).You have read nothing since, because nothing has happened since. The unsecured creditors think they've been had. Worse, they have. Hell, the current management came in being crooks, why not go out the same way, no?Basically

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Air America Radio Announced Today That it Has Signed a Letter of Intent Statement:NEW YORK-January 29, 2007-Air America Radio announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to sell its business to SLG Radio LLC, an entity controlled by Stephen L. Green, the founder and chairman of SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLGPRC) The sale will be accomplished pursuant to section

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Air America has a buyer, and Al Franken has his hall pass out of the building. Both were confirmed earlier this morning.The buyer for Air America comes out of nowhere. Forget the French family. That one fell through, just like all the rest. According to a story broken first in the Huffington Post, it's Stephen L. Green, another of many Manhattan real estate tycoons. (We're all in the wrong

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A week into the trial, and already Government By Media is being exposed. The testimony is amazing. People are singing like Maria Callas.Check this AP story:Libby trial provides lesson on spinning mediaUpdated Sat. Jan. 27 2007 11:36 PM ETAssociated Press...No one served up spicier morsels than Cheney's former top press assistant. Cathie Martin described the craft of media manipulation -- under

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Clear Channel Communications/Citicasters has unloaded several small stations in the VERY upscale Santa Barbara, CA market. Most interesting of these is little KIST-AM, a 650-watt station which is popular at the UC Santa Barbara something like 10 miles to the west (it feels north, but it's west... look it up).Good news is that KIST will keep the progressive talk format for now, under a Local

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Even with a bankruptcy judge and/or a state receiver running things, the exex at the bankrupt Air America Radio must be the negotiators from hell. I don't know how many times they've had their sorry butts "rescued," only to have the deal fall apart at the last second.Even so, there is yet another rumor of yet another buyer.No, I'm through quoting the rumors here. Go to any radio blog and you'll

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Madison's success is inspiring similar listener actions in other cities where Clear Channel has flipped progressive talk stations or threatened to do same. Here we go in Boston. Boston Herald:Defenders of liberal talk fight to keep it on airwavesBy Jesse NoyesBoston Herald Business ReporterSaturday, December 30, 2006 - Updated: 02:10 PM ESTA newly formed local group is planning to fight a

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1. Before the kneejerk reaction starts, no, I did not like Saddam Hussein. He started his infamous career as a small time torturer. Most people who get involved in torture are ruined by it for life. Not our boy Saddam. He would videotape himself torturing people and watch it later to get in the mood for sex. In other words, the perfect CIA/ Bush Crime Family stooge, until he affected the

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Is Stephanie "A Mensa Meeting With Fart Jokes" Miller the next Goddess Of Radio? Well, her show IS awfully funny, and politically dead-on, and now according to the Rochester City News, she might have been approached by CNN. (That would be nice.)DECEMBER 27, 2006Left laughingStephanie Miller moves from Sister Sleaze to progressive radio queenBY RON NETSKY...It may say something about the

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Now it comes out, in an explosive Huffington Post article, that AAR was just another "liberal" corporate clusterf--k. I'm not surprised. I've been watching radio bring out the worst in people since age 9.Air American Radio: An Example of Ego and Crony Capitalism12.23.2006...The positive news is that about 100 radio stations have now committed themselves to progressive talk radio and many of

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The Mic 92.1 WXXM-FM in Madison, Wisconsin will not be changing formats on January first after all. Owner Clear Channel Communications, yes those folksy people in San Antone, announced that due to listener protest the progressive talk format will continue.The Mic had made good numbers and developed a strong core audience, but Clear Channel claimed that a switch to the more advertiser-friendly Fox

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