tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post1500160826802341498..comments2023-11-05T04:04:54.585-05:00Comments on DRAMA QUEEN!: " Viva La Revolución!"Uncle Sydney 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/06315955207217416368noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-89247004781629741652011-03-12T23:38:02.362-05:002011-03-12T23:38:02.362-05:00Btw our network, Pacifica, is the only,..count'...Btw our network, Pacifica, is the only,..count'em the one, and only chain of stations that carries the Al Jazeera English service live.<br /><br />We're getting heat from the Feds about this too.Uncle Sydney 2012https://www.blogger.com/profile/06315955207217416368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-25211138940085721222011-03-05T09:55:55.556-05:002011-03-05T09:55:55.556-05:00On those rare occasions I want to know what is goi...On those rare occasions I want to know what is going on in the world I tune in to Al Jazeera's English service. Yes, these are the people Bush wanted to bomb some years back. The exodus of serious journalists (particularly from the once revered BBC, which has in recent decades become the Official Broadcasting Whore of the UK government) and their movement to Al Jazeera has been little reported, and Al Jazeera itself is still commonly presented in the Western media as a kind of nutty clan of bloodthirsty Arabs. In fact, the staff at AJ is widely international, and is mostly recruited from journalists who have thrown up their careers in the Western media in despair at being constantly gagged and threatened. In my experience Al Jazeera does a good job at being truthful, objective, and comprehensive - which makes it very bad news indeed for mainline Western media. Al Jazeera was also pretty well alone in predicting the recent ourburst of rebellion in the Islamic dictatorships of North Africa and the Middle East. Funny thing that. Maybe their journalists were actually talking to ordinary folks on the street and reporting what they were feeling? The sort of thing Western journalists used to be good at - back in the day...Sionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-83908078598112004782011-02-27T16:12:09.663-05:002011-02-27T16:12:09.663-05:00That's why I still listen to Pacifica from tim...That's why I still listen to Pacifica from time to time, despite the loons that sometimes get on there (present company excepted, of course!). The corporate media exist solely to support the oligarchy that owns them. <br /><br />I hope this people power phenom intensifies and spreads all over the country like wildfire. Which of course is exactly what the oligarchs fear, hence their broadcast silence.Zaeknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-31087493414975392402011-02-27T04:30:29.547-05:002011-02-27T04:30:29.547-05:00One has to go to overseas news sources or the '...One has to go to overseas news sources or the 'net to find anything. <br /><br />Though I will say that Pacifica, and other independent radio networks are doing the best they can with very limited means.<br /><br />Keep digging.Uncle Sydney 2012https://www.blogger.com/profile/06315955207217416368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-29237246569117182722011-02-27T04:20:47.790-05:002011-02-27T04:20:47.790-05:00News blackout is right. I haven't heard a thin...News blackout is right. I haven't heard a thing about this until now.Zaeknoreply@blogger.com