Robert McChesney returns to the air on KKFI to help the pledge drive on Tell Somebody

The pod cast of last week’s show has been posted: download the mp3 file here:

Break Up Bank of America and Citizen Inundated

http://www.tellsomebody.libsyn.com/

Or subscribe to the pod cast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other pod cast directory.

And check out this:
Independent Media, the Journalism Crisis and the Occupy Movement


 
Professor Robert McChesney will be helping out on the KKFI pledge drive, returning to Tell Somebody on KKFI this Tuesday at 6pm, and we could use your help in supporting Tell Somebody and the other great shows on your community radio station.

Tune in to 90.1 FM KKFI this Tuesday at 6pm Central Time, or stream the signal on the internet at http://www.kkfi.org/ and be ready to call 888-931-0901 with your pledge during the show.

Robert W. McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author, co-author and editor of numerous books on media and journalism, is co-founder of the non-profit media reform advocacy group Free Press, and is host of Media Matters, a weekly radio show on WILL AM in Urbana, Illiniois. You can read his complete bio here:

http://www.robertmcchesney.com/biography.html  

(don’t miss the bit about his connection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!)

As Professor Robert McChesney put it, “ I think at this point the idea that American journalism is in a deep, profound and existential crisis is almost passe. I think what is less well understood is that such a collapse of journalism is also a crisis for democracy. Self government cannot work without an informed citizenry, and that can’t work without journalism.”

Keep KKFI and Tell Somebody on the air having an important conversation about this crisis.

At the Free Press National Conference on Media Reform in Boston last Spring, Andrew Stelzer, producer for The National Radio Project said:

“Invest in news. Invest could mean money, it could mean volunteers, whatever it is, it will make that station more relevant to your community, which will increase your fundraising when pledge drive comes, and it will really create a space for different perspectives to be injected into the larger conversation because you can be relevant, and it frustrates me when I see community stations that aren’t as relevant because I’ve seen that there is a possibility for it to happen.”

Think about how relevant you can help make KKFI. Please consider making a donation to KKFI during Tell Somebody this Tuesday at 6pm.

888-931-0901 is the toll-free number.