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In the heart of Zambia, a revolution was brewing, not on the streets, but across the airwaves. From May 2021 to September 2022, two riveting radio shows – Kwishilya (“Over the Horizon”) in the Bemba language and Siñalamba (“Breaking the Barrier”) in...
by populationmediacenter
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
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There is a perverse irony, and holy hypocrisy, in the embrace of Donald Trump by people who profess to be Christian. They could not have settled for a less representative spokesman for a community of faith that allegedly reveres universal love,...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 01:42 PM PST
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared on right-wing gun fetishist Dana Loesch’s “The Dana Show,” recently to talk about his inhumane border policies. When Loesch asked about the “maximum amount of pressure” he could apply in his border policy, Abbott...
by Walter Einenkel
124 comments
on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 02:33 PM PST
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www.reddit.com/… (Not me, just signal boosting) 5 years in conservative talk radio as an open leftist. Hey everyone. For the past five years, and further inspired in HUGE way by the end of season 1, I’ve been establishing and expanding a presence in...
by spiritplumber
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 01:40 PM PDT
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Most people don’t think about opera at all. Those who do, don’t see it as controversial, unless somebody decides to set the opera in present day New York, and have the characters wear modern clothes. They give no thought to The Mute of Porticci, where...
by MeJean
252 comments
on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 03:36 PM PDT
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Almost a year ago, I wrote a story on this site title: Something MAGICAL happened to me this past weekend ! (it was about trying to tell a story to a kindergarten class and failing miserably at it) I wrote a story and told it a Moth slam in Chicago and...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Sun Aug 13, 2023 at 10:58 AM PDT
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Radio has been informing and entertaining us for a century or so. The first commercial broadcast was the live election returns for the Harding — Cox presidential race in 1920.
by strawbale
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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I was tuning around the shortwave bands Saturday evening when, in the midst of the CW (Morse code) portion of the 40-meter ham radio band, I heard a weak signal in what sounded like Russian. It was not a ham radio operator; hams typically engage in...
by necturus
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on Mon Jun 19, 2023 at 02:32 PM PDT
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On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz went on The Joe Pags Show to discuss the important news of the day: the Biden crime family! (This is a radio show where conservatives go to say things like there was no insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, because white people can’t...
by Walter Einenkel
102 comments
on Fri Jun 16, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Radio is dead. It actually died quite a while ago, and now, it’s beginning to smell funny. Just now, a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers introduced a bill calling on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require AM in new vehicles....
by Adventurist
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on Tue May 30, 2023 at 12:29 PM PDT
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Putin's tool Limbaugh wrote Debt Default for GOP Dummies in July 2011. Read it on floor of Congress. Democrats can derail Republican House debt default brinkmanship by attacking their radio advantage The current debt default ‘fight’ is a repeat from 2011. Rush Limbaugh spent much of the month of July 2011 pushing for default, repeating that default...
by certainot
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 11:40 AM PDT
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The defamation lawsuits against Fox News have put a huge "told you so" on a trend in American society accelerating since at least the 1930s when that era's radio became a major outlet for religious hate-preachers. This trend first was mapped out in a...
by rlegro
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on Mon Mar 13, 2023 at 01:32 PM PDT
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Radio , a five letter word for a ton of things. Radio is, among other things, a chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum Not light, nor microwave radiation nor gamma rays, but related to them all. In ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 06:06 AM PST
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If you’re a Democratic candidate for office in New Mexico, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Colorado, New Jersey, New York or Illinois, get ready: the ceiling is about to fall in on you. The white vote in America is split, leaning 53%-42%...
by thomhartmann
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on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 07:34 AM PST
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Good morning, Newdists!� Grab a cuppa and a nosh and join us for some chat and such.
by The Marti
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on Sun Jan 29, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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One of the many radio stations I’m associated with, WSCS 90.9 in New London, New Hampshire, is presenting a solid block of classical Christmas music from now until 11:59 PM Sunday (Christmas) night. No commercials, no fundraising appeals, just music...
by necturus
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on Sat Dec 24, 2022 at 07:34 PM PST
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It's National Ding-a-Ling Day ... I ain't touching it.
What else is there? Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts ? Not sure about that either, in our perpetual and seemingly increasingly censorious ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Mon Dec 12, 2022 at 06:06 AM PST
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The Memory Hole A shocking example of how major newspapers downplayed a call to sedition by a major figure Democracy fails without a genuinely free press. In order to get out of this dark moment in American history, we need to hold the press...
by CharlesII
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on Wed Dec 07, 2022 at 02:26 PM PST
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The main reason Republicans have kept on getting re-elected despite lousy policies is simple. Conservative oligarchs and corporations have bought up much of the news media, both radio and TV. And that news media keeps on spewing hate and lies. Such as...
by boblite
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 12:25 PM PST
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Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996—in subsection (c)—immunizes Internet platforms from any liability for what others say or publish on them. The crucial part is subsection (c)(1), a single sentence, quoted below. There are four main...
by dratler
25 comments
on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 10:08 AM PST
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