NPR National Public Radio. National Pay or Play Radio. Spring Pledge Drive, 2012. Hosts beg and cajole on air hour after hour, day after day for money. They creatively and with cool music in the background alternately shame and praise listeners to pony up part of the paycheck. And promise membership cards, mugs, and messenger [...]
by Will Parrish
I decided to enroll in the journalism program at my alma mater, the University of California Santa Cruz, during the run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, circa late 2002 and early 2003. UCSC was home to a trenchant anti-war movement, far more than in most of the country. For example, a 2,000-person demonstration [...]
by Dan Hoyle
When I picked up my press credential at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, New Hampshire for the ABC News Republican Primary Debate on a clear Saturday night in January, I expected to be steered to a press gallery close to the stage in a musky debate hall. But there were more than 600 journalists on [...]
by The AVA
Fox News Reporter Bill Schulz at a Occupy Wall Street Rally: Jesse, so Ray, your partner here, your… (Occupier named Ray): Comrade. Schulz: Your colleague, she’d seen the protests in Greece and Europe and elsewhere. Did you guys take your cue from that? Are you hoping to cite certainly what was a lot of the [...]
by Gene Dickson
I have a hobby of reading war correspondent dispatches. I got addicted when I started reading Ernie Pyle’s book ‘Brave Men.’ I have since gained an interest in cub reporters. A cub reporter is a reporter’s first job. Ernie Pyle’s first job started in 1923 at the La Porte Herald. The La Porte Herald is [...]
by Cody Hoover
I had to bring a bad alternator over the hill to Ukiah last Thursday. I wasn’t sure if it was dead on my first alternator related trip the day before, riding the Mendocino Transit Authority from Boonville to downtown Ukiah. I got a bench test ran at an auto parts store off of Clay Street. [...]
KZYX, Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Takes On The World, with Jeffrey Blankfort. Blankfort: I happen to be on the mailing list for President Barack Obama! I got an email from him the other day! He wrote… What did he write? Here it is. “Friend!” “Friend!” This is from the president! From his e-mail! “I have [...]
by Steve Heilig
Mindless yelling at one another is not new, nor is anti-intellectualism, but they do seem to be more ubiq uitous nowadays.
“Give to every other human being every right you claim for yourself — that is my doctrine.” — Thomas Paine “What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not. . .our army and navy. . .Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has implanted in us. Our defense [...]
by Ralph Nader
The tumultuous managerial shakeup at National Public Radio headquarters for trivial verbal miscues once again has highlighted the ludicrous corporatist right-wing charge that public radio and public TV are replete with left-leaning or leftist programming. Ludicrous, that is, unless this criticism’s yardstick is the propaganda regularly exuded by the extreme right-wing Rush Limbaugh and Sean [...]
