I listened to KPFA in Berkeley and now, KPFK in Los Angeles. They have a
disability issues show and at least two folk music shows a week. Their
fundraising is annoying, but necessary. Politically speaking, there is a Hodge
pog of lefty commentators and a socialist newscast. For those things I prefer
Sirius XM and MSNBC
Abby
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 5:41 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Rediscovering the Pacifica network
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
