WBAI Alert:

[no_hypocrisy]

As of this Monday, many unfortunate changes by Pacifica. Many programs will be dropped in order to supposedly save the station. Virtually every paid host will be laid off including news broadcast. 75% of personnel will be laid off. Pacifica's goal remains to serve the listening audience. The program changes will be significant and dramatic. That means syndication of programs that may not serve the Community.

[hrmjustin]

1. A friend of mine there is loosing her job.

[leveymg]

2. This is terrible. I listened to WBAI with my parents for news about the Vietnam War as a child.

We also used to be supporters and avid listeners of the DC affiliate, WPFW, but our radio listening is way down.

I know that Pacifica, like many non-commercial broadcast stations, has had a terrible time finding a niche and surviving in the Internet era. But, I hope the network survives, and I suspect that there is still a place for Pacifica as a center for Left organizing and alternative programming.

[hrmjustin]

3. I remember as a gay teen my group did a show for them once.

[leveymg]

4. Not likely that NPR would have carried such progressive content, and probably never will.

I always saw Pacifica as the real Public Broadcasting System. All the rest is just advertising.

[hrmjustin]

5. Yep! This is heartbreaking.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Link to thread of interest:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023408567

[hrmjustin]

7. kick.

[oshma]

8. (Former news editor) Andrea Sears is moving forward

Here's her webpage:

http://www.leftvoices.net

She is on Twitter as AndreaSearsNews, and on Facebook as the Left Voices page as well.

Last night she posted a podcast on the stop-and-frisk ruling.


(Full disclosure--I am totally biased because she is my girlfriend.)

[hrmjustin]

9. kick.

[oshma]

10. Weeknight news podcasts are available from former WBAI News Editor Andrea Sears

Andrea is producing news as LeftVoices.

She has had close to a thousand unique visitors in just three weeks of existence. Come check out Andrea's work on Facebook, via Twitter as @LeftVoices, her webpage, or Liberated Syndication.

News is still her passion, and she is still pursuing it--while steadily applying to every journalism job out there.