Interesting. I wandered around a bit, but I'll need more time to
explore. Still, I'm looking for a place to move the donations I used
to make to KUOW, the NPR station in Seattle. I'm not supportive of
NPR these days, as they slide further to the Right. Actually, I've
never gotten over my anger over the way Bob Edwards was shoved out of
the anchor position on the morning news cast. But I still donated for
a while because I do listen to several programs from NPR. Then my
local KUOW channel moved Alternative Radio from 8:00 PM on Thursday
nights, to 11:00 PM., I began snarling whenever I heard their fund
raisers. And of course, Prairie Home Companion has changed hosts and
format, and Car Talk is still running programs from before 2012. I do
still tune in, All Things Considered, from time to time, but by and
large I listen to a couple of smaller public radio channels. We're
fortunate here in the Puget Sound area to have at least 7 channels to
select from. Anyway, Pacifica may need supporting more than the local
channels. They all have their local base, while Pacifica is located
in California.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/22/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It started on Election night when I wanted to hear Democracy Now's
reporting
and couldn't get to their live stream on their website. I thought, just
possibly, I could find them on WBAI which is the New York City affiliate of
the Pacifica network. It's on my desktop. I didn't realize that one of the
buttons on my radio which sits on the window sill in my office and can,
therefore, get FM reception, was also set to that station. I was so
delighted to find Democracy Now on election night on the radio. Then, in
December, I stopped being able to access the program download from the
website. Each day, up to that point, I could listen to the daily program
whenever I chose. But they're doing fundraising this month. So when I go to
the link on the website for the program, there's a fundraising message that
has to be closed before I can access the, "listen", link. It can be closed
with a mouse by someone who can see, but I can't close it with a keyboard
command. That means, that I arise earlier than I'd like to each day, so I
can hear the program on WBAI radio at 8 a.m. A few weeks ago, Democracy Now
had a 20th anniversary celebration, which was streamed. I thought it would
be on WBAI as well, but it wasn't. But by now, I'd begun to turn on WBAI
occasionally to see what was on. Last night at around 5 p.m., I heard The
Brad blog, which I've seen on the web. Whoever Brad is, he talks about all
sorts of things in which I'm interested. Then, at 6, there was a newscast.
There was also an interview with the author of a New Yorker article on
immigrants. I can't find the article in the current Newsline edition of the
magazine. This morning I heard an American Indian guy who was talking about
the history of how his people have been treated in America, starting with
George Washington. Back in the 60's, we listened to WBAI all the time. I
learned about the Vietnam War, feminism, consciousness raising groups,
black
liberation, all sorts of things. I kept listening until the mid 70's when I
became very displeased with Pacifica's coverage of the adoptions from
Vietnam. In retrospect, I still think they were providing some incorrect
information. However, given everything that has happened, I'm not as
outraged as I was at the time. I'm sorry that I stopped listening. I think,
from some things that I've read, that Pacifica has been going through some
difficult times. But I've heard some interesting stuff lately. You might
see if you can access a Pacifica station and see how you feel about what
they broadcast.
Miriam
