Bree Walker Hosting "Save KLSD" Screening in LA June 17, 2pm

Broadcast icon and progressive activist Bree Walker headlines a screening of "Save KLSD: Media Consolidation & Local Radio" in Los Angeles on June 17, 2pm at Beyond Baroque arts center, 681 Venice Blvd. (Venice). $10 suggested donation and for another $5 you can have a copy of Save KLSD on DVD. For each DVD sale, $1 is donated to media reform groups. To RSVP, email jen@saveklsd.com. Bree lives in Venice and will be our special guest at the screening, and join the post-screening Q/A. Bree, co-narrator of the film, appears on KPFK-FM/90.7 Pacific Radio and is a long-time TV news anchor in Los Angeles and San Diego. Bree is an activist on issues ranging from disability-rights, to anti-war efforts to media reform. In addition to co-narrating the Save KLSD with former KLSD-AM host Jon Elliott, we hear from Bree in the film at "save KLSD" rallies and at a Common Cause event in LA. She is a passionate advocate for more content diversity and localism on our radio airwaves, especially highlighting the need for more balance in political views presented on air; Research shows that more than 90% of news/talk radio is conservative and increasingly, very little content is actually locally produced, though big radio companies would have you believe that it is. After the film, we head to Lemonade cafe at Venice Blvd. and Abbott Kinney for a no-host after-party to continue the media reform discussion and just have a good time with super-tasty salads, entrees, desserts and lemonade of course (beer and wine too....). My husband and I went to Lemonade again May 26, and had salads you can't find (yet) in San Diego, much less our home states of North Dakota and Michigan -- like red quinoa, lentils with voodoo vinaigrette, squash with red peppers and tasty, mysterious ingredients. Lemonade is cafetaria style so it's quick and low-cost -- you can eat for about $8. We spoke to manager Jonathan about bringing Lemonade to the Trader Joe's shopping center in Scripps Ranch where we live, so stay tuned!

See "Save KLSD" at 2 of San Diego's Best Bars and Bistros (Sea Rocket/June 28 & 98 Bottles/Aug. 14), And "Koch Brothers "Exposed" fiilm plus live music from Charlie Imes

New "Save KLSD" Film Screenings! Two of San Diego's coolest on-the-town venues are sponsoring premieres of the 1 hour "club" version of "Save KLSD: Meda Consolidation & Local Radio". On June 28, 6pm, the Save KLSD event kicks off at Sea Rocket Bistro, 3382 30th Street (North Park) and on Aug. 14, same time at 98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. (Little Italy), with Happy House specials on food/drink 5-7pm at both locations as well as Q/A with yours truly (Jennifer C. Douglas, Save KLSD writer/co-producer). At 98 Bottles, it's a double feature with Save KLSD and the must-see new doc from Robert Greenwald, "Koch Brothers Exposed: The 1% at its very worst". And, musician Charlie Imes performs 6-7pm --Charlie is an activist who appears in the film. He joins the Q/A session too. To RSVP, email Jen@saveKLSD.com. We are asking for $5-10 donations at each location, with no food/drink minimum. We encourage attendees to eat, drink and be merry so our amazing bar/bistro owners can make a few bucks while making their venues available for challenging, thought-provoking documentary films! More details at http://saveklsd.com/. "Save KLSD" also screens in Los Angeles on June 17, 2pm (with special guest broadcast icon/Save KLSD narrator Bree Walker) and Fresno, June 19, 7pm. Q/A panels with film producers at all screenings. See SaveKLSD for more.

After sold-out April screening, Save KLSD Adds a May 19 show

Save KLSD is screening again at Lestat's West Theater, 3343 Adams Ave., in San Diego after a sold-out show there on April 28, with speakers including former KLSD-AM 1360 host Jon Elliott (the film's co-narrator) and former weekly KLSD guest, Rev. Madison Shockley, the "voice of progressive Christianity". See photos from the April screening here. Stay tuned for upcoming screenings -- June 28, 6pm Sea Rocket Bistro in North Park holds a Local Food, Local Film dinner party screening! And Save KLSD shows at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles June 17, 2pm and Full Circle Brewery in Fresno on June 19, 7pm.

Save KLSD Film stars Jones & Klinenberg on Maher show + Jon Elliott to join post-screening panel

This month, two Save KLSD film interviewees appeared on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. On April 13, Eric Klinenberg was Maher's special guest, talking about his new book "Going Solo". Klinenberg also wrote "Fighting for Air" about radio and media consolidation. He is one of the main experts in the documentary Save KLSD: Media Consolidation & Local Radio (co-produced and written by me, along with co-producer Jon Monday of Monday Media). On April 6, Van Jones appeared on Maher's show. Jones was forced out as green jobs czar for the Obama administration after a sickening witch hunt led by makes-me-want-to-vomit Glenn Beck, the right-wing nut TV/radio host. I interviewed Jones for Save KLSD a couple of years ago when he was speaking in San Diego. He is truly one of the best progressive speakers and advocates in America and is a rising star, despte the Beck debacle. Save KLSD narrator Jon Elliott will join the April 28 post-screening Q and A, joining producers Jennifer C. Douglas and Jon Monday as well as Shaun Spaulding of the nonprofit New Media Rights, a sponsoring organization. The screening takes place April 28, 2pm at Lestat's West Theatre, 3343 Adams Ave. San Diego, CA 92116, next to Lestat's coffee house in Normal Heights. Elliott hosted a show on progressive talk KLSD/1360 AM, then on AM 1700 in San Diego. For more about the film, go to http://saveklsd.com/

Save KLSD documentary to Screen April 28 and May 19, 2pm

On Saturday, April 28, 2pm, we premiere the documentary I wrote and co-produced -- Save KLSD: Media Consolidation & Local Radio. The film explores the impact of media consolidation on American democracy through the story of KLSD/AM 1360, a progressive talk station in San Diego. Q & A with producers Jon Monday and Jennifer Douglas along with Shaun Spaulding of New Media Rights follows the screening. Suggested donation: $5; Location: Lestat's West Theater, 3343 Adams Ave. This is an invite-only screening -- if interested in attending, please contact me (Jennifer C. Douglas, jen@saveklsd.com; 858-344-5490 cell/text).  A public screening will be held May 19, 2pm, at the same location.  We have nearly 100 donors who made the film possible. their names are in the credits and contributors of $100+ receive the film on DVD and a choice of a Save KLSD T-shirt or mug. DVDs will be available for $20 at screenings and online at http://saveklsd.com/. The DVD includes the film and Extras including Stacy Taylor's last show on KLSD.  The nonprofit New Media Rights organization provided the legal review for the film and is a screening co-sponsor.

Save KLSD: Film Description

Just before the 2008 election year, rumors circulated that the progressive talk format of KLSD (AM 1360) in San Diego was being killed. Save KLSD chronicles grassroots efforts to save the Clear Channel-owned station and exposes the negative effects of media consolidation: deregulation leading to companies owning hundreds of radio stations and the subsequent loss of local, diverse content. A large percentage of mass media is now controlled by a handful of multi-national corporations. With Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives dominating 90% of news/talk station content, is the motive to marginize progressive views on the radio just business as usual or are politics and money involved? Save KLSD questions whether regulators are ignoring their mandate to ensure competition, diversity, and localism in radio. The film raises timely issues -- With factors such as increasing deregulation, the corruption of money in politics and the rise of Internet-based media -- how can we restore a robust radio marketplace, filled with a variety of viewpoints and community voices on our public airwaves? Narrated by radio/TV hosts Jon Elliott and Bree Walker, the film includes broadcast icons Bill Moyers and Phil Donahue; progressive talk hosts Stacy Taylor, Amy Goodman, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Cenk Uyger, and David Shuster; FCC Commissioners Jon Adelstein and Michael Copps; MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe; former Obama administration official Van Jones; authors/professors Marjorie Cohn and Eric Klinenberg; leading media reformers and co-founders of FreePress.net Robert McChesney and John Nichols (of The Nation magazine); local activists Barbara Cummings, Joan Little and musician Charlie Imes; local notables Congressman Bob Filner, San Diego Council Member Marti Emerald, Channel 10's J.W. August, Voice of San Diego's Andrew Donohue, former San Diego mayor (and now conservative talk host) Roger Hedgecock and KLSD/KOGO program manager Cliff Albert; as well as a "father of the conservative talk radio format" Brian Jennings and Common Cause President Robert Reich and CEO Bob Edgar.

Stacy Taylor in, Keith out

Hey all u former KLSD fans, Stacy is making a rare live appearance - speaking April 4, 7pm at the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club.   He is on again, off again at KGO in SC/810AM check - Sundays, 10pm to 1am.  And Keith Olbermann was fired from Currrent TV. What DOES this guy do to f&$@-up all his jobs? Anger management issues perhaps... The idiotic behavior of the GOP is enough to drive anyone to chronic outrage. 

San Diego media reform group becoming part of Common Cause

A San Diego media reform group (CPR: Campaign for Press Reform) -- and I am a member -- has long been interested in closer ties with Common Cause, a leading nonprofit working on media reform and other issues.   Along with local media reform groups in Los Angeles and Sacramento, Campaign for Press Reform in San Diego will be a project of Common Cause here in California. We will network and work together to realize media reform goals. Learn more about Common Cause:http://www.commoncause.org/ca.  We are working with John Smith, who does outreach for Common Cause in SoCal (San Diego, LA area, and beyond), and Anjuli Kronheim, CC staff in LA.   From our group, myself, along with Simon Mayeski (on the board of CC in California) and Jeanne Brown (former CC staffer and current co-leader of San Diego's League of Women Voters) are working on the effort to affiliate with CC.  Each year, the LA group organizes a media reform conference, this year's was called "Media for the 99%" and it was great - with several speakers from the radio industry and Craig Aaron of the media reform group in D.C. called "Free Press".  I was there with a trailer for the documentary I produced with Jon Monday of MondayMedia -- "Save KLSD: Media Consolidation & Local Radio"

Stacy Taylor back on KGO-AM!

Learned from Rich Lieberman's blog (via a posting on Stacy Taylor's Facebook page)  that Stacy is returning to KGO radio Sunday night, 10pm-1am, though not sure for how long.  We miss Stacy from his days at KLSD/Air America in San Diego (KLSD switched to sports talk back in 2007) but glad he's back on the air at KGO. And for San Diegans and others on the west coast, we can get the KGO signal at night! For several years now, San Diego has had zero progressive talk - whether local or nationally syndicated.  And of course, we have plenty of right-wing talk radio -- blowhard Rush and the rest. So much for the FCC mandate to hold broadcasters accountable for serving the public interest by ensuring competition, diversity of content and localism. To learn more about the do-nothing FCC and why 90% of talk radio is conservative, check out our new documentary (I'm the co-producer along with Jon Monday of MondayMedia):  "Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio" (http://saveklsd.com)

Save the Cross-ownership Ban of newspapers and TV/radio in the same market

If FreePress.net is pushing this now, then you can believe that the Obama FCC is poised to kill the ban

on cross ownership of newspapers and TV/radio in large markets, just as the Bush FCC wanted....
(a court overturned the ban last summer and sent it back to the current FCC for further consideration;
all this is described in our film Save KLSD: Media Consolidation & Local Radio,
public screenings start early 2012); Here is a great Businessweek article with more info including a
quote from the new boss of our (former CPR pal) Mera Szendro Bok, Andrew Jay Schwartzman of Media
Access Project in DC).  Sign the online letter below to the FCC and let your voice be heard. 

The FCC holds a media ownership tomorrow (Dec. 1, 3-6pm PT/5pm-8pm ET) Thursday in Atlanta,
so sign the letter today! You can get more info and watch and email/twitter live here: http://www.savethenews.org/atlanta

(Email: livequestions@fcc.org twitter: #FCClive)

Court Finally Squashes 2007 FCC Cross Ownership Rule

Aleading media group called Free Press is cheering the decision rightfully so (see headline link) , but it's not over yet folks and it's more complicated than ever (see the New York Times more tempered article).  among other things, the court said that the fcc didn't give enough time for public comment (and for toyally ticked-off Democratic FCC Commissioners Adelstein and Copps) to consider the 2007 vote that killed the cross-ownership ban. The ban prevented newspapers from owning radio or TV stations in the same market, to prevent further ownership-power concentration of media.  So, the cross-ownership ban remains in effect while the matter basically gets thrown back to the FCC to deal with again. You'd think the ban would be safe with a Democratically controlled FCC and a Democratic President who had a strong anti-media consolidation stance while a candidate... but President Obama likes the status quo just fine now that he doesn't want to piss-off the media powers-that-be. His FCC chief actually has defended the killing of the ban...  Hopefully the FCC will drag its feet and let things lie until Obama's second term when perhaps his spine will regrow.

Stacy Taylor on KGO again regularly + Keith debuts June 20 on Current TV

San Diego's talk radio star Stacy Taylor is on KGO/AM810 in SF for at least the next 7 Saturdays.  Can't get signal during the day in San Diego, but it can be streamed.  KGO is the #1 station in San Francisco and can be heard all over the West Coast in the evenings.

Big day for me and Keith...  Olbermann's new show on Al Gore's "Current TV" debuts June 20 -- my birthday!  5pm live here on the West Coast, repeated at 8pm.  The show will has the same name as his MSNBC show, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann".  It is on Time-Warner here in San Diego and also on DirectTV, AT&T U-Verse and other channels.   

Sneak Peek at Keith's new show on Current TV + Stacy Taylor wins more hosting gigs on KGO/AM810

Ok, it's a spoof - not flattering to Keith or Al but pretty darn funny.  click here or on headline to go to link of a sneak preview of keith olbermann's debut on Current TV . Meanwhile San Diego's own Stacy Taylor is again hosting the Sat. 7-10pm slot tonight (March 12, 2011) and 10pm to 1am March 28-April 1.  

Olbermann starts FOK News Channel (website)

Keith has started the FOK News channel... sounds a lot like FOX and F_CK combined, which is perfect but is officially supposed to mean "Friends of Keith"... I learned about this from The Hollywood Reporter which writes that Current TV considers its new host Keith Olbermann to be a "game changer" who could change the future of the little-known network.  Keith's show debuts in May 2011 -- exact date TBD. 

Stacy Taylor Hosting for 5th week in a row on SF's #1 station, KGO

Stacy's back again on KGO/AM810 ouf of San Francisco! We hear someone else has been selected as the permanent host for the slot (Saturdays, 7-10pm) but keep listening to Stacy while you can and email KGO to tell them to keep putting Stacy on the air -- chose the general manager from the dropdown list. Another media activist (Bettina Rausa) and I have been sending the general manager emails in this way -- Bettina says she is getting response email s back... I haven't yet. But we need to let KGO that San Diegans are listening -- that means a growing awareness in San Diego of KGO overall and that its signal can be heard here at night. Stacy is on Facebook, just search on his name.

Stacy Taylor Hosting on SF's #1 station -- KGO!

Stacy Taylor -- former host at KLSD (progressive talk station in San Diego) -- has hosted the last 4 Saturdays, 7-10pm on San Francisco's #1 station, KGO/AM810. He also hosted Feb. 25, 2-4pm. To listen to the archives, click on the headline above.

You can listen at night in San Diego -- the signal is heard all over the west coast. Or stream from the web or listen on a blackberry (check application center to download free app) or iphone.

Stitcher Radio on Smartphone features progressive talkers

If you live in a radio wasteland like San Diego, there is a way to get your fix of progressive talk via your smartphone for free. Check out Stitcher radio -- it has streaming podcasts, radio shows and news from Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy, and Bill Press radio shows and audio from the Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann shows and much more. I was able to easily play Stitcher radio on my Blackberry Tour and Stitcher is available for the iphone and other smartphone models. You can listen on a computer and Stitcher gives advice for listening to your smartphone through your car's radio speakers. It has a list of radio stations nationwide where you can listen to live broadcasts via Stitcher. V.C. (as in Very Cool but also as in Venture Capital, as Stitcher has venture capital behind it so maybe there's a chance it will be successful. Now if we could get our local San Diego radio greats Stacy Taylor and Jon Elliott on Stitcher, then it would be extra V.C.

Richard Wolffe in San Diego says radio needs balance of views, nonprofit model

Thanks to former KLSD radio host Jon Elliott, I was able to interview MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe about the lack of progressive voices on the airwaves. (Get youtube link to Wolffe interview by clicking on the above headline). Wolffe was in San Diego Dec. 5 speaking at The City Club, as part of the tour for his new book, "Revival: The Struggle for Survival in the Obama White House". The interview was for the forthcoming film "Save KLSD", which I am working on with Jon Monday of MondayMedia. The film is about the effort to save KLSD/AM1360 progressive talk radio, the rise corporate media and dominance by conservative talk radio, and the national lack of content localism and diversity.

StacyTaylor.com adds podcasts, live blogging to MSNBC political shows

Stacy Taylor just added podcasts to his Website, there's one today (Dec. 6, 2010) re: tax deal with Congress & Obama and also a podcast from Dec. 4. Hope to see this continue!

I posted this to Facebook as it was happening on Nov. 30, 2010 : If you miss Stacy Taylor from San Diego's KLSD/AM1360... (or want to check out his edgy, left of center style), go to his blog now, 5pm Pacific Time. He's live blogging to MSNBC political shows... Olbermann's on now.

Stacy Taylor Resurfaces

We haven't heard from our beloved on-air voice of edgy progressivism since his last blog post in December, but alas, Stacy Taylor has surfaced, with a lengthy email yesterday to supporters, stating that his websites will be back up soon with podcasts. Glad the man is back. We need his viewpoint and sharp mind and wit, "as an alternative to the dimwitted rubbish that passes for local media" as he put it in the email. (For some reason i can't copy and paste it right now, i will try later).

Next Radio Bankrupcy: NextMedia

Just after a day after #3 radio company Citadel goes bankrupt, now we have NextMedia going BR...(chapter 11 in a debt-for-equity swap that will give ownership to creditors). It owns outdoor advertising and 36 stations in various states including 2 in San Jose and 5 in my hometown Saginaw, MI (including the big talk radio stations WSGW). Once again blogger Jerry del Colliano is on top of things -- love the way he cuts the corporate speak to get down to the essentials:

"These are piranhas – they prey on growth industries, feed their borrowers by
reissuing loans at ever increasing rates of interest – loans that would make
Tony Soprano’s family envious.And as you heard in the Citadel bankruptcy you get
the usual assurances that there will be no more cutbacks and I finally believe
them – but I also believe in the Fairy God Mother (full disclosure)."

Jerrry's right: Citadel Bankrupt, CC and Cumulus Layoffs Coming? Ah... Media Consolidation; Hello Kitty Radio!

Another one bites the dust? not really, but the bankrupcy filing by #3 radio consolidated radio company Citadel may mean more firings, according to InsideMusicMedia.com and InsideRadio.com's Jerry del Colliano -- a straight-talking insider and USC prof. He's such a thorn in big radio's side that #1 biggie Clear Channel created a website to make fun of him called InsideInsideRadio.com -- which doesn't seem to exist anymore...
Anyway make sure to check out RadioSurvivor.com's post about Jerry and his correct prediction about Citadel's fall. including their own view that the Citadel situation is a fallout from the Telecom Act 1996 which opened the door for massive radio consolidation...

Jerry says look out for CC layoffs around Christmas and for similar action from #2 radio owner, Cumulus, also facing financially tough times:
“Cumulus will continue its methodical execution of broadcast careers and work around-the-clock if necessary to get the company to become a simple series of towers and transmitters that can be virtually programmed by Atlanta, marketed through Harvard-style new age cockamamie radio sales logic and run on the cheap by the few, the shamed, the Dickeys.”

On a lighter note, see RadioSurvivor.com holiday list for radio lovers -- think my daughter Genevieve might like the Hello Kitty Radio -- too bad there's no radio stations for toddlers, and for my ear, only schlock and right-wing rabble-rousing to listen to... there's always 88.3 jazz for comfort. and 89.5/KPBS is decent sometimes.

Also see the Golden Turkey radio award winners /losers. it's the CEO's for #1, #2 & #3 radio corps mentioned above -- for dragging their companies into the gutter. lots of great comments there too.

NEW MEGA MEDIA MERGER -- furthers dangerous road to media oligopoly

Is it a done deal ? The nation's largest cable and broadband provider (Comcast) is merging with NBC Universal. What is the Obama adminsitration about? will it start enforcing anti-trust laws as promised, will the FCC impose conditions for approval (will that matter?) or the status quo of more and more ginormous behemoths owning the public airvwaves. Not opposing this merger and seemingly uninterested in repealing the 1996 Telecom Act which allowed -- no encouraged -- media consolidation to create large, well-capitalized companies that could own multiple media platforms. Just great... that's exactly what's happened here --an unprecedented merger across media platforms: cable, broadccast TV, and Internet, anda corresponding explosion of power to control what people see and hear and what they PAY for that right.

Que sera sera... at least no radio radio stations are involved, and (after GE spins off NBC/Universal) - weapons builder GE will no longer own a controlling interest in media.

Josh Silver of free press.net, writing on huff post
Mega-Media Era Begins: GE-Vivendi Deal Clears Way for Comcast-NBC Merger
December 1.2009
French media giant Vivendi and General Electric agreed to terms that clear the way for cable giant Comcast to take a controlling stake in NBC Universal. The proposed merger would create a media behemoth, and clear the way for an unprecedented era of media consolidation across cable, the Internet and broadcast television. Consumers should be afraid ...
[use link for entire article] .

[Excerpt from Silver article]:
The merged Comcast would be to media what Goldman Sachs is to Wall Street: "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money," as Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi once described the latter.

excellent discussion of the merger at
http://www.democraticunderground.org/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x27223#27422

SaveKLSD Trailer and Broadcast Blues Screening Nov. 20 at USD

Footage shot for "Save KLSD" -- the media reform film I am co-producing with Jon Monday of Monday Media -- is being shown again before anaudience. Earlier this year, soundbites from the interview we did with SD Congressman Bob Filner were shown at the Democratic Party Grassroots Convention, and on Nov. 20, one of our trailers will be shown at USD -- see my Facebook blurb below.

"What's happened to diversity and localism in radio? Why should we care that mass media has been deregulated and is owned overwhelmingly by a handful of large corporations? (hmm, what happened to financial services when it was deregulated?). Find out Nov. 20 -- See a preview of "Save KLSD", a film (co-produced by Monday Media and Jennifer Douglas) about the grassroots effort to save San Diego's KLSD radio and the larger media reform effort it inspired. Then, watch a screening of "Broadcast Blues", a documentary about how media policy is hurting our democracy. Also learn about a new progressive talk radio station in San Diego, coming soon from Liberty One Media.

Event sponsored by Common Cause, Campaign for Press Reform (CPR), and Democracy Matters (USD chapter).

Save KLSD: http://saveklsd.com/

Broadcast Blues: http://www.broadcastblues.tv/

Location: USD Campus, Serra Hall #204Directions: http://www.sandiego.edu/about/directions/

CPR changes Name to CPR + New Media Watchdog at SDSU

CPR (Campaign for Progressive Radio) is now CPR (Campaign for Press Reform), reflecting the broader media reform approach CPR is taking, though still focused on radio. The CPR Website has not been updated yet with the new name... CPR remains a fitting abbreviation as San Diego media (esp. radio) still needs resuscitation. CPR met last night and I was there -- an upcoming post here will give more info.

So, to the rescue... The new Watchdog instititute at SDSU, led by SD Union Tribune "senior editor for metro and watchdog journalism" Lorie Heard. The mission: "To provide data-driven investigative journalism to residents of San Diego and Imperial counties, And to help develop new investigative journalists through SDSU for metro and watchdog journalism." . So far, the WI Website is just a splash page, though VOSD said on Oct. 29 that it has has moved into SDSU offices and published its first story. The VOSD article was written by Randy Dotinga, who also writes on radio for the North County Times.

Perhaps the endeavor was spurred along by the success of investigative up-and-comer VOSD, VoiceofSandiego.org, and the UT's need to shore-up their investigative shop. In any case, I wish them well. We need serious investigative news, that's for sure. The UT of course runs right but I really don't know much about Heard except for the official bio -- do any of you?

The SD Reader has an interesting take -- is Watchdog a way for the UT's new finance firm owners to "pare the payroll" or a "tax manuever for certain donors?"

And the EditorsWeblog says Watchdog and the UT are separate entities with the former being a nonprofit, but the UT has made "financial commitments" and will "collaborate closely".

The American Journalism Review says the UT is the largest contributor and that Heard is "converting the newspaper's investigative team into a nonprofit organization that seeks to form partnerships with various San Diego media outlets"

Hmmm. This is something to watch unfold... I have been wondering if some kind of a new nonprofit journalism model would emerge, considering media consolidation (and resulting lack of diversity in content; latest merger push is Comcast and NBC) and the implosion of newspapers due to loss of revenue from advertisers in turn due to the economic downturn and dollars (and eyeballs) migrating to the Net. One more link -- see the fabulous media reform group Free Press's ideas for revitalizing media via their new project: SavetheNews.org

Stay tuned: an upcoming blog post will be an update on the Local Community Radio Act in Congress.

GONE: Ed from DC and prog talk from Missoula

See today's Liberal Talk Radio blog to learn that Ed Schultz has been dropped from his DC radio affiliate and the progressive talk station in Missoula, Montana flipped suddenly to the one thing worse than yet another sports talk format -- yes, it has flipped to conservative talk.

Some better news: Ed fill-in Norman Goldman has launched a show that's been picked up by a syndicator. See Liberal Talk Radio and scroll down to Oct. 28.