You can help fix radio! FCC looks to revise rules

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Thursday March 27, 2008 · 7:55 PM PDT

2008/03/27 · 19:55

Are your local radio stations a cesspool of satellite-fed programming, with the occasional local traffic report thrown in for good measure? Do you feel your local radio stations are not serving your community? Ever tune into a local station hoping to learn about severe weather, or school closings, or breaking local news and find nothing but tape-delayed banter?

The FCC is proposing localism changes that would require broadcasters to provide more local news, more local political coverage and essentially, be more responsive to local needs.

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Thursday December 28, 2006 · 6:09 PM PST

2006/12/28 · 18:09

I'm not going to get into too much detail about Air America Radio as a network. From the get-go, I've thought the way they were attempting it was wrong on about 5 different levels..management, programming, you name it. But that's not the reason I'm doing this diary. I'm doing it because I want to give another insight into how to save progressive radio in your town. You have got to find advertisers. It really is that plain and simple. Reading about the way the folks in Madison are working to save progressive radio there makes me happy because they’re fantastically organized and they’re doing it the most effective way possible.

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Monday July 17, 2006 · 9:27 PM PDT

2006/07/17 · 21:27

Who said that?

The same person who said this:

"The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and for a war that makes no sense. A war that was based on faulty intelligence. That's all they ever talk about. That and immigration. Another discriminatory argument for political gain."

None other than Charles Barkley.

According to Chris Baldwin's golf blog, "Sir Charles" had quite a few things to say about the GOP and all I really have to add is this...

Welcome, Charles.

He had some other timely things to say, and I strongly recommend checking out that story.

Draping a coffin in a flag made of whole cloth

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Saturday July 15, 2006 · 3:29 PM PDT

2006/07/15 · 15:29

There's a lot of uproar about the DCCC ads featuring flag-draped coffins. While I understand why there is an uproar, I also see a big opportunity for the Democratic party to use ads in a different way.

It's obvious that the GOP has no plans to run the 2006 campaign as a referendum on Iraq. It's a loser as an issue unless it's included in the "war on terror" issue, which is so ambiguous it may as well include loving mom and apple pie. The first gutteral response then is to definitely unleash all kinds of attacks on their horrendous record on Iraq since that's the GOP's weakest point.

However, this is another example of the GOP shaping the form of debate in the public circle. It's not that we shouldn't be talking about Iraq...we definitely should. But I feel that we might have success using the GOP model to push our winning issues. I'll explain why after the jump... Read More

Texas newspaper writes anti-domestic spying editorial

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Wednesday December 21, 2005 · 7:57 PM PST

2005/12/21 · 19:57

Since November, 2004, when the Bryan-College Station Eagle endorsed neither Bush nor Kerry for the presidential race, I have occasionally checked out the editorial section. Our community is hyper-conservative...George H.W. Bush's library is here at Texas A&M University, the county voted something like 75/25 in favor of the gay marriage ban last month, and you can count the elected Democratic official's on one hand.

However, in today's Eagle, an editorial admonishing the current administration is the most scathing rebuke of policy I have seen. I've included snippets below, and a link to the editorial itself. I have not included as much as the editorial as I'd like (I'm wary of copyright restrictions) but I believe Mr. Borden writes succinctly about why anyone, not just progressives, should be worried about the course this administration has chosen. Read More

Why won't the Red Cross let the media into shelters?

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Friday September 30, 2005 · 4:07 PM PDT

2005/09/30 · 16:07

As Govenor "Goodhair" Perry announced 12,000 more evacuees to be sheltered in San Antonio, an earlier report from the San Antonio Express-News says the Red Cross will be limiting media access to evacuees.

Story here.

(free subscription may be required; I use BugMeNot to get the stories) Read More

Breaking: Astrodome letting more buses in

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 10:29 PM PDT

2005/09/01 · 22:29

Before I went to bed, I had to flip through channels one more time. While I was watching ABC 13-KTRK's coverage, the reporter was talking to a refugee and during that conversation, a producer or other reporter broke in, audio only and said that the buses that were there were being allowed in.

I wish I could post more but I wanted to post this as fast as possible.

Update [2005-9-2 1:36:18 by kineticdissent]: They also showed footage of inside the Astrodome. The ENTIRE floor is covered. (if you've ever been there you know how massive the floor is) They are saying they will accept these buses tonight and that the main problem they had earlier (and the reason they tried to stop accepting buses) was because they are low on volunteers. Read More

Calling Baton Rouge: A Kossack's Insider Guide to Radio

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Thursday July 28, 2005 · 7:58 PM PDT

2005/07/28 · 19:58

A few weeks ago, Kossack hybronk posted a success story about how a group of progressives in Baton Rouge, LA successfully persuaded a radio station to carry Air America Radio. It was a fantastic diary, so if you haven't seen it, feel free to do so now. I made a fairly lengthy comment about radio and how to go about this, and I've been meaning to do a full diary entry spilling everything I know about radio, and to give others this knowledge in hopes they could help create change in their corner of America. Well, finally, here it is.

In this diary, I will attempt to give the basics on the gooey innards of radio, and hopefully give you some ideas on where to start if you're looking to achieve what Baton Rouge achieved. I'm going to cover how radio works, specifically the AM band/talk radio, and why it's easier than you think to get Air America on the air in your city. It's gonna be a long diary, and I will probably bog myself down with too many details, but I'd be more than happy to answer questions. And away we go..... Read More

The PATRIOT Act and the 2nd Amendment

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Tuesday July 19, 2005 · 8:26 PM PDT

2005/07/19 · 20:26

Sorry. No Rove here, or Roberts. All I've got right now is a simplistic idea that would go towards explaining our progressive stance against the PATRIOT Act and all its un-American offspring in a way that right-wingers can easily understand.

Most pro-PATRIOT Act folks, when faced with our deeply felt grievances against the overhanded tactics and the possibilities of abuse, will say simply, "Well, if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide!" What we see as the terrible potential to violate our privacy and rights to assembly, etc. they see as necessary, and believe our rights would never be abused. They oversimplify by saying "If you're clean, you won't be messed with." Read More

Texas House votes to bar homosexual foster parents

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Tuesday April 19, 2005 · 8:20 PM PDT

2005/04/19 · 20:20

Yes, the state that sent John "Box Turtle" Cornyn to the Senate as well as the current resident of the White House, is now attempting to hardwire discrimination into the Texas code of laws.

Few things the Texas Legislature does really shocks me. I'm sure most around these (Kos) parts will remember the redistricting battles, where alternatively, House and Senate Democrats fled to neighboring states to break quorum. This is politics as usual in modern-day Texas.

But to hardwire discrimination into the rule of law in this state? This, well, this goes beyond anything I would ever have imagined.

From the AP..link >right here

edit: fixed the link...too long and screwed up the page format. sorry!

(if that doesn't work for you, try http://www.theeagle.com and look as the Associated Press Texas headlines)

snipped from the AP article below the fold... Read More

We cannot defend life by taking life. (with poll)

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Sunday March 27, 2005 · 7:19 PM PST

2005/03/27 · 19:19

Whoa, whoa whoa...just stop right there. Calm down, this isn't about Terri Schiavo, or Tom DeLay, or Bill Frist, or any of those newsmakers.

This is about the death penalty, the reddest of red meat for the red states, and how a poll conducted by John Zogby that was released Monday shows that support by Roman Catholics in the U.S. for the death penalty has dropped below 50%. The poll results were released Monday, but as you likely know, the media has been covering over things in excess, and besides, a silly little poll about the death penalty surely isn't worth news coverage at all, is it?

more below the fold.. Read More

Air America is coming to Dallas and Austin

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Thursday March 17, 2005 · 7:19 PM PST

2005/03/17 · 19:19

This according to Radio and Records, a premiere radio industry trade magazine...website at www.radioandrecords.com. You can find this blurb on the "Street Talk" section for 3.15.2005

"Border Media Partners is ready to launch Air America programming on KXEB/Dallas and KOKE/Austin."

This is definitely a good thing for the citizens of Texas. Dallas is a huge market, and even with the Big Hair/Big Oil/Big Truck populace, just by sheer numbers alone, there's going to be a market for liberal talk in that city. Austin is arguably the most liberal area in Texas, if not the most heavily Democratic, so it seems the format would be a natural there.

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The PATRIOT Act and the 2nd Amendment

Texas House votes to bar homosexual foster parents

We cannot defend life by taking life. (with poll)

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