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A radio journalist who accused a program host at Berkeley's KPFA of browbeating her on and off the air has settled a sex- discrimination suit for $125,000, plus $133,000 in legal fees, against a station known for its advocacy of leftist politics and women's rights.

When she was hired as general manager of KPFK (90.7 FM), Eva Georgia appeared to be a walking trophy of progressive brownie points: a black lesbian with an almost cinematic personal story of facing persecution as a leftist radio activist in South Africa. In the summer of 2002, after highly charged internal struggles at KPFK’s parent network, Pacifica — firings, lawsuits, listener rebellions — Georgia told the Los Angeles Times she would run the station by respecting the “process of democracy and transparency.” But by the fall of 2002, Georgia’s staffers were in open revolt, claiming that democracy and transparency...

In this war freedom should come first not after! In New Hampshire the Motto is Live free or Die! I don't need Bush spying on law abiding americans and taking our freedoms. Anyone who surrenders a square inch of freedom to the government in the name of saftey is a traitor and should be treated like one! Let the Bush Fashists all drop dead! Filthy Commys! LET FREEDOM RING!

While doing some painting today, I wanted to listen to some talk radio. Unfortunately, Sunday is not a good day for talk radio. The only thing I found on was . . . . . KPFK -- public radio. I listened to "Counterspin" and "Spotlight Africa." I was in the vomitorium. I hadn't listened for awhile. These people are nuts. I wanted to throw my radio. The anti-American and anti-conservative and anti-Bush crap that they are putting out on the air is overwhelming and sickening. Because I believe in free speech, I don't advocate that we shut them up. But...

THE LEFT’S CIVILITY SCAM By Don Feder Last week, the inimitable Ann Coulter was on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” to discuss her new book, “How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must)”. Co-host Charles Gibson – a media cheerleader for the Kerry campaign, who once expressed disbelief that anyone could question the Democratic nominee’s “distinguished war record” -- used the interview as an occasion to deliver another unctuous homily on the need for civility in politics. For the left, civility is a one-way street, running toward them – but never in the opposite direction. Gibson, who hosted the second...

Hi! My name is John Martineu. Im 18 and a student of Dover high School in Dover Delaware. I have been assigned a final term project. We are to do a 20 page turn paper on different subjects. I am doing one on the collapse of communism. Since you coservatives know alot about this, I was wondering if you could help me out. First Id like to know what communism is and how it is different from socialism? Second I would also like to know about why Russia collapsed. Third could you tell me why you refer to certain people...

<p>At a time when efforts to reform the corporate world are getting all of the attention, there is another group of chief executives who remain insulated from the effects of scandals at Tyco, WorldCom and the like. They are America's not-for-profit profiteers: the executives who cash in at universities, foundations and other tax-exempt organizations.</p>

| Lefty Radioheads Bite Backby Rachel Donadio Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, she was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut left-wing talk-radio network for which she’s directing the entertainment programming. The course of both, it seems, have been altered by the specter of a certain sex act."Clinton’s blowjob was the worst thing to happen to political comedy ever," Ms. Winstead said...

T'S democracy at its finest. Or worst. Liberal New Yorkers are bracing for a stormy election campaign, one that pits political correctness against political correctness, and antiwar voices against antiwar voices. No, this isn't a race between Al Sharpton and Howard Dean, or one between rivals for the leadership of some Upper West Side co-op. It's the election campaign for the board of WBAI-FM (99.5), the radio voice of the New York left for more than 40 years, and the fact that the stakes of this vote are relatively minor has in no way softened the fierceness of the debate....

<p>CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (CNN) -- Several dozen jailhouse sketches by accused sniper Lee Boyd Malvo -- some depicting police in rifle crosshairs and others containing references to a holy war -- have been entered as evidence by defense attorneys, who say they are evidence of his indoctrination by an accomplice.</p>

wo weeks ago, word came down from the Pacifica Foundation that WBAI (99.5 FM), one of five stations in the Pacifica radio network, must lay off 14 full-time employees by December—or face the possibility of closing next year. The rationale for the cuts was blunt: WBAI's latest fundraising drive fell short of its $1.2 million goal, bringing in only $800,000. Cutting payroll is probably the easiest way to recoup the missing $400,000. But some members of the WBAI community have balked at management's contemporaneous decision to lay off staff and to introduce a novel format that might be called "progressive...

In June, Pacifica Radio's Los Angeles station, KPFK-FM, hosted a thirty-hour marathon of Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn's anti-Semitic "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend."  It was the first time this once-annual program appeared for almost a decade. It had been banned by station management in 1993, after a long, hard-fought pressure campaign to remove it.  Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend typically includes claims that the Jews disproportionately participated in the slave trade and persecuted blacks; in the past, he responded to criticism by calling the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League a "psychotic, idiotic, European Jew."   He has regularly played tapes by Nation of...

If it's allowed to stand, an FCC ruling will feed media merger mania BY BILL CLINTON "It's your money," says President Bush when he promotes tax cuts. I disagree with his tax policy but admire his spin. The same argument applies with greater force to whether big media conglomerates should be allowed to control more television and radio stations: "It's your airwaves." The American people own the bandwidth that broadcast media companies use to deliver programs to our TV and radio sets. Because the space on that bandwidth is limited, the Federal Communications Commission regulates who has access to our...

Right-wing crazies rule talk radio in America. So can a $10m plan to put liberal shock jocks on air ever work? Andrew Gumbel reports from Los Angeles Wanted: a mould-breaking, iconoclastic American talk-radio host who, unlike just about every other mould-breaking, iconoclastic talk-radio host on the US airwaves, also happens to be left-wing. This host should have the charisma and audience-pulling power to be as popular as the Rush Limbaughs, the Howard Sterns and the other tub-thumping right-wing crazies. Oh, and a sense of humour wouldn't do any harm, either. That's the challenge an increasingly despairing American left is setting...

Below is a list of 95 liberal talk hosts, liberal talk networks, liberal talk stations or syndicated liberal programs that are in the marketplace ALREADY. None garners an audience anywhere near the top conservative hosts. So what makes the liberals believe that they have been "shut out" of the marketplace o ideas? Could it be that ad $$$$ are an indicator of merit that decides who gets on? Could it be that when it comes to the marketplace of ideas, liberal shelves are either bare or hold stale goods? Any additions, deletions, comments or even your opinions are welcome on...

CNN's Aaron Brown on the network's coverage of the anti-war movement, the media's sanitization of the invasion of Iraq and why he believes this is an inappropriate time for reporters to ask questions about war. A discussion with Amy Goodman, Aaron Brown, Steve Rendall and Jeremy ScahillDemocracy Now! April 4, 2003THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN, DEMOCRACY NOW!: You're listening to Democracy Now!'s The War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. With more than 25 years of journalism experience, Aaron Brown is CNN's lead anchor during breaking news and special events as well as anchor of Newsnight. Before...

Pacifica Radio in the United States is utilizing the services of American "independent journalist" May Ying Welch who is fronting for A.N.S.W.E.R. and other anti-American/pro-Iraqi groups, and who is on the ground in Baghdad right now.Welch's on-site reports air on communist, anti-American Pacifica Radio, in the format of a call-in segment to the program "Democracy Now", and may be of value in terms of actually exposing, (through her unwitting cooperation), the propaganda war being waged by the Ba'athist regime in Iraq and other vital information. She is also valuable in providing post-sortie BDA information to our side. In a way,...

<p>A few weeks ago, Amy Goodman played master of ceremonies at a peace rally in Washington. Later that day, she attended a different antiwar protest, involving many of the same people, this time doing interviews for the show she hosts on Pacifica Radio -- and wound up getting arrested outside the White House.</p>

So I heeded a suggestion made by a peacepuke to listen to 90.7 KPFK here in Los Angeles. I encourage everyone else within earshot to do the same. And I urge you to call. Here was my experience. Their one host explicitly stated that he does not think people should support the troops because they are doing the wrong thing, and why would you support someone like that. The next host named Don claimed after a call about supporting our troops that he assures the audience that the entire staff supports the troops. Obviously, nobody there listens to their own...

In Houston, listener-sponsored Pacifica radio station KPFT (90.1 FM), said it would play the Dixie Chicks now more than ever. "I just heard about it an hour ago from a caller who said there is some kind of boycott against the Dixie Chicks," said Wendy Schroell, KPFT administrative assistant. "That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. We are going to be playing them all the time.