[grc] Does anyone remember the NFCB Healthy Station Project?

[Donald Foster]

The Healthy Stations Project and policies of that elk are mainly used to cull radical programming from the community airwaves.

> On Oct 29, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Heather Gray <hmcgray at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Carolyn ­ Below is Andrew Phillips on Pacifica and the Healthy
> Station Project. It's an interesting and relevant article. I do correlate
> the Healthy Station Project with privatization initiatives today on prisons,
> charter schools, etc ­ basically efforts to take away the voice and media
> control of and by the people. At a Pacifica Board meeting in Berkeley a few
> years ago I was stunned to witness the conflict between the paid and un-paid
> producers ­ definitely a hierarchy as one would expect. I was so glad upon
> reflection that we never allowed our station to be engaged in this model.
> Peace,
> 
> Heather
> 
> Riding the waves at Pacifica radio, by Andrew Leslie Phillips
> by Matthew Lasar <http://www.radiosurvivor.com/author/matthew-lasar/>  on
> August 6, 2013 in Community Radio
> <http://www.radiosurvivor.com/category/noncommercial-radio-2/community-radio
> /> , Op-Ed <http://www.radiosurvivor.com/category/op-ed/>
> http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2013/08/06/riding-the-waves-at-pacifica-radio-b
> y-andrew-leslie-phillips/
> <http://radiosurvivor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/andrewphillips.jpg>
> 
> Andrew Phillips
> Andrew Leslie Phillips has written a short history of the Pacifica radio
> network, published below. He is interim general manager of Pacifica station
> KPFA in Berkeley, California.
> Phillips is a native of Australia. He spent seven years in Papua New Guinea
> as a government patrol officer, radio journalist and filmmaker before coming
> to New York in 1975. He produced award-winning investigative radio
> documentaries on a wide range of environmental and political issues for the
> Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and for Pacifica station WBAI in New
> York City. He taught journalism, radio and ³sound image² as an adjunct
> professor at New York University for 10 years.
> Phillips tells me he is still on ³administrative leave²
> <http://radiosurvivor.com/2013/06/03/andrew-leslie-phillips-the-education-of
> -a-kpfa-general-manager/>  at KPFA, pending the completion of some kind of
> investigation of him by his employer, the Pacifica Foundation. Thanks to
> Project Censored <http://www.projectcensored.org/>  for permission to
> reprint this piece. -Matthew Lasar
> The Pacifica foundation was founded in 1946 by poet and journalist Lewis
> Hill and a small group of pacifists, intellectuals and experienced radio