You know, I have often wondered how he ALWAYS gets on the best-seller list. His books aren't really funny, and most of the left prefers to buy through Amazon or use the library. I wonder if Moore gets money from Soros.
This one below may help to explain why NB never seemed to stay very long in one place. (Emphasis added):
| Subject: | prometheus radio project tours the southern US |
| Name: | Anonymous |
| Date Posted: | Aug 1, 02 - 3:15 PM |
| Favorite Music | indy |
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:44:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: petri@prometheusradio.org
To: petri@prometheusradio.org
Subject: prometheus radio project tours the southern US
prometheus radio project
p.o.box42158, Philly, PA 19101
215-727-9620
info@prometheusradio.org
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Pete Tridish, petri@prometheusradio.org 215-727-9620/ 215-435-5800 while on the road
>From August 15th to September 2nd, radio rabble-rousers Pete Tridish and Marissa Johnson (Marissa is listed as a staff member on the www.prometheus.org website) will tour 20 cities from Richmond, Virginia to Austin, Texas to kick-off their campaign against the massive radio giant, Clear Channel Communications. Wherever they go, they bring tips about radio equipment, programming, and the new low power radio licensing process. While fighting the monoplists of the radio industry, Prometheus promotes alternatives to corporate controlled media and teaches communities the skills to produce their own media.
Prometheus organizing in the South will culminate with a Low Power Radio Barnraising, conference, where radio activists and programmers from across the nation will gather to build a radio station over the course of a weekend in Opelousas, LA on November 15-17. (Where was NB during this time?)
The Southern Development Foundation, Opelousas Branch has been fighting for civil rights for over a quarter of a century. They have worked for school reform, community supported agriculture, and they host the largest zydeco music festival in the world every year in Opelousas. In the very place where zydeco music was born, every station on the dial ignores the regions cultural heritage in favor of cookie cutter automated stations that play Classic Rock and Young Country. In November, the Southern Development Foundation will expand its advocacy for the people and culture of Opelousas into the world of radio.
New hundred watt broadcasters like the Southern Development Foundation will have the difficult job of preserving public and community radio as locally produced media becomes more and more rare. While thousands of community groups languish waiting for their low power licenses, a handful of corporations are voraciously acquiring all the commercial radio stations they can buy. The largest owner of radio stations, Clear Channel, not only owns over 1200 radio licenses in the United States, but also a third of the billboards and the second largest concert promotions business. They relentlessly pursue many other related media properties which they combine into monopolies in order to dominate their markets. Clear Channel s business model focuses on cutting costs by eliminating local programming and using satellite feeds to replace local announcers, busting its unions, and undercutting its competition through massive advertising deals. By mechanizing and industrializing radio, they are taking all of the personality out of it. Pretty soon we will be listening to a bunch of glib sexy robots who have been market researched to appeal to us, even though they have nothing real to say, said Pete Tridish.
Prometheus fought in the campaign that forced the FCC to reverse its 20 year ban on new low power community radio applications. Thousands of community groups across the country have handed in their applications for a sliver of the radio dial. Some have already been assigned space on the airwaves, while others wait for any news from the FCC on the status of their application. The majority were turned away as the result of radio industry sponsored legislation that stopped community groups in all but the smallest towns from applying for a radio license.
"When the first 100 watt stations are up and running they will exemplify the power of community radio. These new stations serve as an example of the public's desire for and commitment to locally produced media that responds to the needs of the community. With the accomplishments of LPFM as motivation, we will continue our fight for the communities that want increased access but are still left off of the dial. We will not rest until the media monopolists stop abusing the public trust of the airwaves" Said Marissa Johnson, community radio organizer.
Prometheus workshops are different in every town. They nearly always include some history of the radio dial, an account of the pirate radio movement and the LPFM victory, an update on the campaign against Clear Channel Communications and media consolidation, an introduction to do-it-yourself radio engineering, a demonstration with a small transmitter, and an explanation about rules and procedures for applicants for radio stations.
Cities we will visit:
8/15 Richmond,VA
8/16 Durham, NC
8/17 Asheville, NC
8/18 Atlanta, GA
8/19 Gainesville, FL
8/20 Tallahassee, FL
morning 8/21 Gallion, AL
evening 8/21 New Orleans LA
8/22 Opelousas, LA
8/23 Baton Rouge, LA
8/24 Opelousas, LA
8/25 San Marcos, TX
8/26 Austin, TX
8/27 Travel
8/28 Memphis, TN
morning 8/29 Mason, TN
evening 8/29 Birmingham, AL
8/30 Nashville, TN
morning 8/31 New Tazeville
evening 8/31 Knoxville
9/1 Greenville, SC
9/2 Raleigh, NC
Moore's books aren't funny to you because you don't share his sense of humour! The lefties think otherwise, including one of my family. She (my own mother) claims 'Michael Moore always tells the truth and not only that, but he can back up everything he writes...(unquote) Poor old lady is 89 years years of age, so I can't do to her what I would like to...she's been left-wing all her life and buys his books even though she is living on an aged-pension. In Australia! Don't underestimate Moore's reach. His appeal to America Haters is worldwide. (Like chicken-shite, a little goes an awfully long way.)