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

Heather Gray hmcgray at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 29 22:15:32 PDT 2014


Yes I agree with that. 

Heather Gray

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> On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:50 PM, Donald Foster <djpfoster at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 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


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