[grc] NewsUp! and submissons to t

[Ann Garrison]

At this point there's so much nerve rattling news that the Russians are
coming (LOL) that I can't remember whether we all received a note
announcing the new NewsUp! section on Pacifica Audioport.org.  Just to
recap, this is a section that Ursula Ruedenberg and Greta Anderson
organized so that those of us producing news around the Pacifica Network
can make our news reporting available to other producers - especially
newscast producers - when it's not so local that it won't be of interest
beyond our local audiences.

My first upload to the "NewsUp!" section of Audioport was an interview with
World Beyond War founder and author David Swanson: Should California secede
from the USA?  Would smaller states be less violent and more democratic?
<http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=110311&nav=&>
 This 8 minute and 2 second segment should have news value for at least a
year because Yes California, the California secession movement, plans to
campaign for a ballot measure in 2018 and another in 2019. I will therefore
ask whether that can be left in NewsUp! for longer than the one week
expiration date we discussed.

I also shared "The 2016 presidential election recount: Black Agenda Report
Editor Bruce Dixon on reasons for the Stein recount
<http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=110364&nav=&>."
 This is the short - 4 minutes, 24 seconds - story that I produced for last
Saturday's KPFA Evening News.  Its immediate news value has passed now that
Republican judges have shut down the recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan
and the Wisconsin recount has widened Trump's margin by 162 votes. The
issue of election integrity, however, will continue into its next phase wth
the CIA telling us the Russians hacked the DNC/Podesta e-mail to influence
our presidential election.  I know that Bruce Dixon will say that the
issues he named there are still the real issues and that the accusations of
Russian interference are a distraction.


For real,
Ann Garrison <http://www.anngarrison.com/>
Independent Journalist,
SKYPE: Ann Garrison, Oakland
415-503-7487