Greg Palast, NYT best-selling author, on Tell Somebody Tue June 8
Tom Klammer
Investigative Journalist Greg Palast Next on Tell Somebody
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Tune in to Tell Somebody, this Tuesday June 8 at 6pm Central Time, streaming at www.kkfi.org, to hear investigative journalist Greg Palast help me ask for your support for YOUR community radio station, 90.1 FM KKFI. And if you can donate $120 to KKFI, only during the broadcast, you can pick one of three Greg Palast DVD's to add to your collection along with a Tell Somebody reusable grocery bag (pictured below).
More details at www.tellsomebody.us, including links to much more on Greg Palast, award winning NY Times best selling author.
I don't think it has every been more important for you to support KKFI, and quality alternative media, than it is right now.
Forget about liberal/conservative right/left food fights - think about vitally important, relevant information. Think about the failure of journalism. Are you getting that on television? In the newspaper? Even on NPR and PBS? I don't think so. If you disagree, send me an email - I think I can offer plenty of specifics to make my point. There are exceptions, of course. But by and large, the corporate media are failing the public. And KKFI, besides wonderful, eclectic, non-corporate music, is bringing you vital information that you don't get elsewhere. Help us keep bringing it, and help us improve it in the future? How? First, if you are at all able, make a donation to KKFI. I'd appreciate the vote of confidence and demonstration of the value of Tell Somebody to listeners if you call in during my show, but it all goes in the same pot. The number is 888-931-0901
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Liberal or conservative, all but the most unthinking ideologues-in-denial now know that we were sold a complete bill of goods leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. That could not have happened without a complicit media acting as stenographers to those in power who lied us into war. KKFI listeners knew better. That same sort of media failure is continuing in the mainstream today on just about any subject you care to talk about. Check out www.fair.org for a few dozen examples. Help us get vital information to more listeners!
Just one more example:
This morning on Democracy Now on KKFI, listeners heard from a guy named Joe Meadors. Meadors was on one of the ships in the Gaza relief flotilla boarded by Israeli military in international waters resulting in 9 people being killed. Meadors was also on a U.S. intelligence ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, attacked by Israeli military in 1967 resulting in 34 murdered American sailors, marines, and civilians. Except for listeners to stations like KKFI, most Americans know nothing about the Liberty attack, know nothing about how the Israelis were never held accountable for it, just as most Americans know little to nothing about the killing of Rachel Corrie. If the major media had done their jobs on those two stories, I submit that the extreme right-wing Israeli government would never have dared to use the heavy-handed tactics that left 9 dead this week. Support the station that brings you important information.
http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/attack-on-liberty.html
You can find the July 28th, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody with the James Scott interview here:
Attack on the Liberty
I've also posted my October, 2008 interview with Liberty survivor Bryce Lockwood here:
U.S.M.C. SSgt. Bryce Lockwood - U.S.S. Liberty - June, 1967.
Bryce Lockwood the day after the attack