Amy Goodman: Radio for the People

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from Truthdig:


Radio for the People


Posted on Aug 7, 2007
By Amy Goodman

Rupert Murdoch is looking like the cat that ate the canary with his successful takeover of Dow Jones & Co. and its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. Media conglomerates like Murdoch’s News Corp. are among the most powerful corporations on the planet. His papers beat the drums for war while distracting with gossip and glitz.

Yet people are finding innovative ways to fight back, to demand independent, community-based media. One such effort that you can join is the movement to create new, full-power, noncommercial FM radio stations in the U.S.

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. The Federal Communications Commission will open a one-week window, Oct. 12-19, during which nonprofit community groups in the U.S. can file applications.

Think for a moment what a powerful, noncommercial radio station could do in your community. As the late George Gerbner, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, said, we need a media not run by “corporations that have nothing to tell and everything to sell, that are raising our children today.”

Community radio is the antidote to that small circle of pundits featured on all the networks, who know so little about so much, explaining the world to us and getting it so wrong. On community radio, you can hear your neighbors, you can hear people from your community: the silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070807_radio_for_the_people/

[EFerrari]

1. This woman never stops.

:)

[rhiannon55]

2. She never goes on vacation

I'm not sure she sleeps.

She's amazing.:patriot:

[Captain Angry]

3. I don't have many heroes.

Amy Goodman is one of my heroes.

[marmar]

4. So true.....

Amy is amazing. :yourock: