Pacifica Crisis in the Media

Pacifica Crisis in the Media

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Pacifica Crisis in the Media Links

• Pacifica's Pacific Coup Juan Gonzalez for In These Times about the "Coup" at WBAI. He concludes: "As Berkeley showed, in this war it's the listeners and donors who will have the last word."
  
• CounterPunch Magazine Stories on Pacifica Collection of articles about the Pacifica Network.
  
• A Protester Meets with Utrice Leid A listeners memo after a meeting with WBAI's Utrice Leid. Points of discussion are the bannings, firings, the boycott and Major Owens among others.
  
• I want my Democracy Now! Laura Flanders on WorkingForChange.com in support of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!, broadcast from WBAI in New York. The article details harassment by Pacifica and U. Leid Interim General Manager of WBAI..
  
• Are KPFA and WBAI For Sale? Counter Punch article that discusses a memo by Pacifica board member Michael Palmer encouraging the sale of Pacifica Stations WBAI in New York and KPFA
  
• Pacifica Radio's Uncivil War Article by Randy Baker co-producer of 'Fear and Favor in the Newsroom', a documentary on self-censorship in the press, posted on vote.com.
  
• Turmoil Continues to Rock Pacifica Stations LA Times on the ongoing Pacifica Crisis and the resignation of Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez.
  
• Days of outrage - Pacifica Protests Planned to Gemand 'Democracy Now!' Reinstatement Laura Flanders reports on 'Democracy Now!' and the outcry about the continued harassment by WBAI and Pacifica staff as well as Pacifica's refusal to broadcast the show.
  
• Is the Troubled Progressive Radio Network Drifting to the Right? Salon.com on Pacifica's Crisis in it's early stages. An activist is quoted saying: "Pat Scott wants to turn Pacifica into NPR lite...".
  
• Pacifica Management's Lies and Misrepresentations The Nation online article on M. Schubb and his text "Pacifica Myths and Realities" giving the progressive and activist perspective. (in 6 parts)
  
• East Timor Action Network Open Letter on Amy Goodman and Pacifica Letter to WBAI and Pacifica on East Timor and Amy Goodman, reporter and host of 'Democracy Now!', challenging attacks on her integrity and rumors that the Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor did not occur.
  
• Cloak and Dagger - Marc Cooper LA Free Press on The Nation magazine's Marc Cooper and his role within Pacifica, he is believed to have had an influence in firing the Pacifica News Director.
  
• There's Something About Mary Management problems and divisive racial politics have followed Mary Frances Berry from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to the Pacifica Radio Network. Salon.com.
  
• The Neutering of Pacifica Article in CounterPunch outlining some of the changes within Pacifica that have been points of disagreement between the National Board and media activists.
  
• Broadcast Blues The national news program Free Speech Radio News has been heard every night on WMNF. This is the first sustained attempt at creating an alternative to the daily news radio broadcast, The Pacifica Network News. M. Perry in the Weekly Planet.
  
• Conflict Rocks Pacifica R adio An article in the University of Toronto's Varsity Online describing the attempts to sell Pacifica stations, the struggle against Pacifica at KPFA and staff firings.
  
• Goodman Embroiled in Pacifica Conflict Article in Current on difficulties Amy Goodman, of Pacifica's Democracy Now!, is encountering. She alleges a "poorly disguised attempt at censorship".
  
• More Democracy-Now! Editorial by The Nation on the banning of A. Goodman from Pacifica's airwaves. The Nation's coverage of the Pacifica crisis has been increasingly condemned Pacifica radio activists.
  
• Smoking Guns Corporate and government interests have hijacked the Pacifica Network, the only independent, listener supported and progressive radio network . RealVideo by Free Speech Internet TV.
  
• Pacifica Radio - The Rise of an Alternative Network Review in the San Francisco Chronicle of the book 'The Rise of an Alternative Network' written by Matthew Lasar.
  
• Pacifica Politicking SF Bay Guardian: Critics say "Pacifica leadership's recent moves, hiring a communications director from the Justice Department and appealing a federal labor ruling, raise disturbing questions."
  
• Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News Radio San Francisco Chronicle reports the beginning of the ongoing strike and boycott against the Pacifica Network News.
  
• Is the Troubled Progressive Radio Network Drifting to the Right? Article on the efforts by the Pacifica management to remove progressive content from it's airwaves. Salon.com.
  
• 'Democracy' in Action LA Times article on Amy Goodman, her show Democracy Now! broadcast from WBAI and harassment she has endured by Pacifica management.
  
• CPB Chastises Pacifica - Shutting Out Dissidents is an Issue in Ongoing Battle Article in Current on the Pacifica Radio Network's violation of the FCC's open meetings rule.
  
• The Pacifica Crisis in The Nation Coverage of events such as the "Coup at WBAI" and the harassing of Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, from The Nation magazine. Includes web only material.
  
• Whose Network? Our Network! Voices of the Free Pacifica Movement John Tarleton interviews among others: Dan Coughlin, Errol Maitland and Kirstin Thomas on the changing Pacifica and how the changes have affected local and national programming.
  
• Workers Charge Pacifica With Union-Busting Pacifica hired a labor relations firm, which the AFL-CIO says is a union buster and has given its three unionized stations new labor contracts that could sap the bargaining units. Current Magazine.
  
• What's Up with Pacifica? Chuck Rosina a News Director and Pacifica coordinator at WMBR in Boston on the deepening Crisis in the Pacifica Radio Network.
  
• Storm Clouds Over Pacifica 1999 marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of Pacifica radio whose future, some say, is cloudy. Article in NY Daily News.
  
• News Director's Axing Roils Staff at Pacifica The removal of National News Director Dan Coughlin at Pacifica Radio has sparked protests against Pacifica Foundation. Article in NY Daily News.
  
• Juan Gonzalez, Lyn Gerry & Tomas Moran on Pacifica Counterspin interviews Juan Gonzalez, Lyn Gerry and Tomas Moran about the state of organizing the movement to save the Pacifica Radio Network. (RealAudio)
  
• Let Us Now Praise 'Unfamous' Journalists Norman Solomon on the integrity of Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, award winning Pacifica journalists. Fair Media Beat.
  
• Pacifica Rebels Turn Up Volume John Tarleton analyzing political motivations of the Pacifica Foundation and covers protests at its 2001 National Board meeting in Houston.
  
• For Democracy Now! Nation Magazine editorial praising Pacifica's Democracy Now! broadcast from WBAI, while Amy Goodman's harassment by Pacifica management is described.
  
• National Effort to save Pacifica Radio Berkeley Daily Planet on the nationwide struggle to save Pacifica with a report from an event in with Dan Coughlin, Amy Goodman and Bernard White.
  
• AFTRA Fears Danger at WBAI Roger Armbrust in Backstage on the Pacifica Radio Network's and WBAI's harassment of 'Democracy Now!' staff as well as statements by AFTRA the involved union.
  
• Two More Pacifica Board Members Resign Pacifica Board Chair Acosta and board member Van Putten have resigned, the second and third to resign as a result of a nationwide campaign to stop the corporatization of free speech radio. NYC IndyMedia.
  
• Staffers Protest Pacifica Transfer of News Chief Article in Current, a magazine covering public broadcasting, about Pacifica's ouster of National News Director Dan Coughlin.
  
• As Foes Slam Pacifica, Their Targets Cry Foul Current magazine articles dealing with tactics employed by free speech activists and Pacifica's efforts to discredit them.
  
• Pacifica Radio Airs its Troubles at Hill Forum The Washington Post on the forum convened by congressman Major Owens to address issues of censorship in the Pacifica Network and at WBAI.
  
• Pacifica to Critics: Take Down Your Web Sites or Well Sue Public Citizen article on Pacifica's attempted censorship of web sites criticizing the National Board.
  
• ZNet's Contribution to Resolving The Pacifica Crisis Znet articles covering the Pacifica Network.
  
• Pacifica - A Way Out Article by R. McChesney in The Nation delineating a proposal to solve Pacifica's crisis through a temporary National Board comprised of progressives.
  
• Bill Gets an Earful on 'BAI NY Daily News article about Amy Goodman of WBAI/Democracy Now! interviewing Bill Clinton. The article questions the implications of this interview.
  
• What's Going On at Pacifica? John Dinges on the Pacifica Radio Network and the activism to save it as an alternative media outlet. The Nation magazine.
  
• Saving Amy: "The Exception To The Rulers" Media Channel article by Danny Schechter on Pacifica and it's program 'Democracy Now!'. Host Amy Goodman asserts beeing harassed by Pacifica.
  
• Pacifica moves to Washington as the news anchor leaves in dispute Pacifica moves after protests by many of its affiliate stations and departures of key on-air staffers, including Pacifica Network News anchor Verna Avery-Brown. Current magazine.
  
• Media Database at savepacifica Archive of news articles, transcripts, press releases, audio files, and photos about the Pacifica Crisis.
  
• Racism at Pacifica? The Black Journalism Review asks: are anti-Pacifica Radio protesters racists? Many radio activists counter that it is Pacifica that employs racially divisive tactics.
  
• Pacifica in Crisis Westchester Weekly, NY on the "The internecine struggle to save the last bastion of progressive viewpoints on the airwaves."
  
• Pacifica Outlets are Roiled by Internal Conflict At a time when radio hosts make a show of ripping their bosses, it's ironic that on the stations with the deepest genuine rift, listeners don't hear a word about it.
  
• Democracy Now! or Never Managers of the Pacifica listener sponsored radio network are trying to force Amy Goodman the host of their most influential program out of her job. By Laura Flanders.