Josh Silver on the end of the internet as we know it now online at www.tellsomebody.us
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Tom Klammer
Aug 14, 2010, 2:56:27 PM8/14/10
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The Aug. 10th edition of Tell Somebody is now online - get links to listen or download at www.tellsomebody.us
The show features Josh Silver, co-founder and president of the non-partisan/non-profit media reform group Free Press, talking about The End of the internet as we know it.
Also on this show, Laird Monahan's speech on the Country Club Plaza, and Jane Stoever's comments on the front steps of the US Federal Courthouse in Kansas City.
Check it all out at www.tellsomebody.us
The Aug. 3rd show is also up, featuring an interview with Laird Monahan as he approached Kansas City - Laird and his brother Robin Monahan are walking clear across the country from California to Washington DC to raise awareness of the problem of "corporate personhood" and the need for a constitutional amendment to overturn it.
I've also posted the July 20th show with former Kansas City Plant worker Maurice Copeland and Ann Suellentrop talking about health problems at the Kansas City plant and the coming of a new nuclear weapons plant to replace it.
The Citizens United case demonstrates how corporations want the rights and privileges (and none of the responsibilities) of citizenship for themselves, and would probably prefer that you and I act only as consumers, not as engaged citizens. As Laird asked in his speech, do you consent to that?
Corporate media (including NPR and PBS?) prefer consumers to citizens too, I think.
Community radio NEEDS community citizens to survive, and, I would submit, citizens need community radio in order to be informed, as well as to have non-corporate music to "charm" and inspire and "soothe" and fire us up
("Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak").
How's your 'savage breast' doing these days?
Is KKFI helping it?
You can email the whole KKFI programming committee all at once by sending your comments to this address:
And then think about getting more actively involved with YOUR community radio.
Tom Klammer
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