[vox] [fwd] You're Invited! DMA's Annual Holiday Open House [Davis Media Access, Mon Dec. 7]

[Nick Schmalenberger]

I don't know if its still true, but as of 2007 KDRT used the
Rivendell radio automation software on Linux and gave this realy
cool talk at LUGOD about it
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/past/2007.09.17.php
-Nick

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:01:54AM +0000, ointmentfly at tuta.io wrote:
> Thanks for letting us know about this--  you have good "radar" as to local 
> stuff that's worth noting!
> 
> Just an observation though, about how KDRT can be infuriating.  I've counted 
> four distinct times, now, that they've run an episode of DemocracyNow that 
> isn't the current day's edition..  and I made note of these 
> otherwise-unexciting events because they so happened to contain especially 
> controversial subject matter on those particular days.  (I listen on KDVS or 
> KPFA or KVMR often, but sometimes it's more convenient when KDRT plays it.)  
> This to me has been enough data points to suggest there's someone "spiking" 
> said episodes, as the common element is that each time the Authorities' 
> wrongdoing was called out in explicit terms..  be it some cops or U.S. 
> foreign policy, as was the case this last notable time.  I'm sure if you 
> called to complain they'd cite "technical difficulties"..  yeah, I bet they 
> run Microsoft crap so surely they have some weaknesses, but surely they'd 
> just be using this as a cowardly excuse.  Take note of the most recent 
> censored (IMO) topic, and share with friends who may've missed it:
> 
> http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/19/glenn_greenwald_on_submissive_medias_drumbeat
> 
> ".. as far as who has blood on their hands, there’s zero evidence that the 
> attackers used encryption or anything else that was revealed as a result of 
> Edward Snowden, but there’s lots of evidence that the CIA utterly failed in 
> their mission and that the U.S. government has done all sorts of things 
> unwittingly to strengthen ISIS. And so, I think if you want to talk about who 
> has blood on their hands, personally, I would look first to ISIS, the people 
> who actually shot those people in the Paris streets. It’s really weird. 
> Usually after a terrorist attack, nobody is allowed to suggest that anybody 
> has blame other than the terrorists themselves. But for some reason, in this 
> case, leading establishment figures and journalists feel free to go around 
> detracting—distracting attention from ISIS and saying, "No, it’s not ISIS 
> that has blood on their hands, it’s Edward Snowden." For some reason, that’s 
> now allowed. So, if that’s what we’re doing, if that’s the game we’re 
> playing, I would look to the U.S. government first, because they failed to 
> find the plot despite huge amounts of money and unlimited power to do so, and 
> because they’ve done all sorts of things to strengthen the group that 
> apparently bears responsibility for this attack."
>   --  Glenn G. being interviewed
> 
> 
> Merry Xmas!

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