all right what about the uh... charts and
and we are here at the national covers for media reform really interview up a
lot of folks who get four hours of interviews
by but work i guess right now is any good with the legendary in a good bit
for the marks in a thank you for coming up and going to be written pain he's
also the other the new books any up to the madness ordinary heroes
extraordinary times
by a bigger than ever that is a good pass right com any by everybody here so
often about the marks in our midst kind of legendary but
let's talk about a list of what it is so people that have heard about it no
exactly well easy gand twelve years ago as the only daily election shine public
broadcasting reineck couple dozen community radio stations nineteen ninety
six
then
right around september eleventh we started broadcasting and one public
access t_v_ station manhattan cancer based in manhattan and the rest was
radio
and then it just tough long everytime
a public access station would put us on the air than the local radio station
with say hey can we write you
and then the p_b_s_ station it's taken me where you and the npr station it's a
career in human everyone and both t_v_ satellite networks
uh... free speech t_v_ a wonderful independent channel unjust network
channel nine four one five and also twenty p
which is nine four one allegation it's also a direct tv channel two three seven
five
so it's just started growing uh... we are now broadcasting and seven hundred
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our headlines are available in spanish and over two hundred radio stations are
taking them around the world and the transcript at every daily our broadcast
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you know the whole idea we should not be is unique case we are but the corporate
media
has failed to pass
so people are looking for independent voices as you know
and that's why this conference is so important anne independent media stein
has com
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you really built it from the ground up in you partly forces
that because the situation up in the media as a status is now feel fear
really admire that it has but i want to bring it down even further email under
seventy did it because it's so hard
his ed you know funny you sonam public access because i also serve them
probably axis and i thought about doing the same thing but that was herculean
task you know i was on arlington public access way back in the day that
was probably ninety-six you know when you when you first went on manhattan's
pump but how did the
which local radio stations pick you up for all the first week and then if its
effective reading out write this if it is the oldest independent media net work
in the country it was founded in nineteen forty nine
in berkeley california by a were sister named lou help
uh... he
he came out of the detention camps he said there's got to be and media outlet
that is not run by corporations a profit from war but by journalists and artists
ok p_s_a_ was born in the first pacific a station and they risk a gift and los
angeles and nineteen fifty-nine my station new york w_p_a_ i m nineteen
sixty
nineteen seventy-seven w_p_a_ w in washington
in nineteen seventy he kicked he went on the air in houston these at the five
pacifica stations
k_p_m_g_
in houston is the only radio station in the country
whose transmitter was blown up
they went on the air in nineteen seventy and within a few months well the ku klux
and strapped dynamite to the base of the transmitter and blue it's a smithereens
the silver lining was let's face it community radio doesn't get a lot of
attention they didn't have money for an advertising budget so when they were
blown up included into the consciousness
of the houston potential listening audience and just as they got back on
their feet rebuilt their transmitter the klan blew it up again one i can't
remember if it was the exalted cyclops in the grand dragon cuz they often
confusing titles
but he said it was his proudest tax and i think that's because he understood how
dangerous pacific is
dangerous because it allows people to speak for themselves and when you hear
someone speaking from their own experience whether they're a
palestinian child or an israeli mother
whether they're in a rocky alkyl or a venezuelan after kit from the south
bronx you say it sounds like my book but it sounds like my i'll buy it sounds
like my abu it sounds like my chemo or my boom however whatever language you
speak it breaks down barriers it breaks down caricatures and stereotypes that
fuel the hate groups that's fine media is so important
um... a believe media is naturally
apiece entity that we'd do bridges
we shouldn't be advocating for the bombing purchase movement
you know the force that wears moves there were what we would now call
terrorist actions and as always the third such a backwater thirteen and
wound up helping of people who are trying to hurt uh... now how how do you
guys though funded and supported
so that you are not relied aren't of these forces that push for war et cetera
what we began at pacifica radio oldest invented media net work in the country
it's listener and you were supported will listener supported cuz its radio
then going on to public access t_v_ and this satellite networks
lower television so that if you are supporting
also getting support from
foundations and getting support
from the networks acronis so you put all of that together you pieces together and
they have to admit a lot of the support
comes from just selling dvds at an online if democracy now dot org you know
every day it's a tv
broadcasting our
and people can buy i think the cd or the dvd of every single one of our shows and
that enact teachers are baseball caps are cigar
a logo is a statue of liberty creek torch microphone
and that really helps us to you from endlessly
uh... you know like this week for example just two shows that we
one way is the legendary storyteller troubadour railroad tramp
folk musician
utah felons wonderful
reservoir of the stories of twentieth century he died in nevada city i went
out there at last weekend and the memorial service was in the place that
he loves i'm a little bit fields
that's where he would go he'd watch the kids in support of money go over to the
hot tub send first in line they would always be instructed to tell me say give
me a job please
sorry mister you tap phillips we have not laugh
he died of congestive heart failure
but anyway he was a remarkable man sort of the pete seeger figure program so in
nineteen in two thousand four four years ago
i went to prior radio station in santa cruz who's having a concert that night
and we crammed into this little act like place and they interviewed utah phillips
and freak radio that's free radio santa cruz
and
he told the stories of the twentieth century it was just magnificent so when
we play shows like that this past week
you know everyone does throw excited too much now dot org
were another person this week uh...
another person was
boarded up
the legendary irreverence i can a classic controversial list
gore vidal who is the cousin of
al gore
jimmy carter
uh... jacqueline kennedy there like step sister and brother
i mean this is a guy who really liked the twentieth century he's gonna be
eighty-three in uh...
this coming october
and
after the l_a_ times vessel of bucks a few weeks go where we were both
presenting our bucks a followed him back to his home in
hollywood hills which is steeped in history
something the corporate media is not when you have eight seconds a secret
nine seconds you hardly getting any history
howard kids get alarm about the grassroots movements
the change the world that they can be a part of today that's democracy now is
steeped in that and steeped in looking at the future
so he told those stories