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

[John Halpin]

Hoo boy !

I just challenged Hayden Ludwig to come for an interview on our community
radio station and debate some of those "facts" of his.


John Halpin
WHPW

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:28 AM, David Goodman via grc <
grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:

> 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 (I realize some of the info may be outdated...)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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