[grc] The Left's Low-power Coup -- Prometheus WON!

[David Goodman]

Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppets long has argued that getting a reaction
from the authorities is a sign he is doing something worthwhile. And Mr.
Ludwig sure is feeling defensive, isn't he.

Just for kicks and giggles, I did a bit of unscientific Wikipedia research.
(I realize some of the info may be outdated...) I chose Alabama (first
letter in the alphabet and a state where conservatives are holding the line
against liberal encroachment) and found that of 13 LPFM stations currently
on the air, 9 are listed as Christian/Religious/Christian country/Baptist.
The other 4 are listed as Classic Hits, Oldies, or Travel Info. Wow, how
subversive.

Here in Boston, we have three outlets time sharing one frequency: a
religious station with lots of local public affairs programming aimed at
communities of color, a station licensed to the city of Boston with a
variety of talk and music - the programming reflects the various outlooks
of the community and takes no editorial position whatsoever - and Lasell
College. Plus a station on another frequency licensed to a community center
that serves mostly high school kids. Even in uber-liberal Boston, LPFM is
not the vanguard of the "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolution."

Having said all that, respect to all the stations exercising their first
amendment rights. And if that means being critical of American mythology
and/or the US government; well, Yay!

cheers,
dg


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Paul Bame via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
wrote:

> Wow is all I can say -- this turned up in a google news search for
> Prometheus...
>
> Here's some high-quality (well-written, good research, credible-sounding)
> conservative fear-mongering propaganda, and an elevation of Prometheus to
> considerable lefty heights!  It's built on a bed of unstated false
> premises, for example that because LPFM was most-visibly started and
> supported by lefties, that LPFM stations only run lefty content. This is a
> variation of the false, but historically effective, "myth" of the "liberal
> media", which is itself also loosely based on shooting the messenger
> (surveys that most journalists are not Republicans) rather than systematic
> analysis of the content produced.  It's also interesting that of the
> rotating photographs on our web page, they chose the one most frightening
> to many altrighters: _women_ of _color_ with _children_ -- translation: end
> of the white race. Probably will be quite effective in Trumpland.
>
> Can I please have a decent salary to write propaganda? Oh wait, of course
> Soros is handing me money already! How could I have missed that?!
>
> https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-lefts-low-power-coup/
> > <https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-lefts-low-power-coup/>"Summary:
> > The Left has discovered a new front in the ever-shifting war for media
> > control: low power FM radio. It’s an innocuous-seeming concept with big
> > repercussions for future audiences. But for conservatives, the fight may
> > have been lost before it began.
> > <https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-lefts-low-power-coup/>
> > [...]
> > "In October 2013, the FCC offered a new batch of over one thousand LPFM
> > licenses in what has been called the “biggest expansion of community
> radio”
> > in U.S. history. Free Press hailed it as “the moment we’ve all been
> waiting
> > for.” Prometheus Radio Project called it the Left’s chance to combat the
> > conservative “push [for] anti-worker, anti-immigrant, and anti-choice
> > policies,” and led the effort to snag the licenses before they could be
> > obtained by “religious networks and conservatives, which have
> historically
> > dominated the radio dial.”
>
>
>
> Paul (pablito) Bame
> Prometheus Radio Project <http://prometheusradio.org/>, Engineering
> Director
> 215.727.9620 x505
> N0KCL/3
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