by Jim Swanson
Progressive News Radio
RUNNING TIME – 28:20
For a while, I thought “Net Neutrality” (open access to all websites for every one) was pretty much a done deal. Not according to our guest Megan Tady (pictured at left) from our good friends at Free Press.
Apparently, Federal Communications Commissioner Julius Genakowski has been conducting meetings behind closed doors with the big Internet players such as AT&T and Comcast, as well as lobbyists.
IS Net Neutrality really in jeopardy? Are deals going to be struck by yet another government agency? We hope not.
Megan Tady from FreePress.net explains what’s at stake if we internet users lose the deal for Net Neutrality.
Megan also spoke with us about who the media conglomerates like Clear Channel have been pulling the strings on basically most radio stations in most every section of the country (see the video below).
More about MEGAN TADY
Megan Tady is Communications Coordinator for Free Press, she blogs for Free Press Web sites, write opinion pieces, develops content for Free Press campaigns and makes videos to educate the public about media issues. Before joining Free Press, Megan was a national political reporter for In These Times magazine,a staff reporter and editor for The New Standard, and worked extensively as a freelance journalist. She earned her B.A. in journalism from Northwest Missouri State University.
Megan’s article “Hate Corporate Radio? Well Speak Up—the FCC Is Listening” can be found at “In These Times” HERE.
YOU CAN GET INVOLVED AND YOU CAN HELP. BUT YOU MUST SPEAK AND YOU MUST SPEAK LOUDLY. Listen as Megan tells us how we can make sure our voices are heard and that the internet remains open to everyone, all the time.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK THE LINKS BELOW
The disturbing Clear Channel Video
The far right wing-nuts are all over the news this week, so our political analyst Ben Armbruster from 
I say just start sending out a cardboard cut out of Sarah Palin along with a cassette tape of her usual drumbeat of “Death Panel Communist Socialized Medicine Not Born in This Country” chatter instead of sending her. Seems she gives the same “speech” over and over again, as witnessed by this past week’s Real Estate Convention, where she never even mentioned real estate. Duh! Just don’t forge to send the 100K check and have chilled cold bottled water ready. And don’t you dare forget the damn “bendy straws”. You betcha!
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We were very honored to have Laura Flanders as a recent guest on Progressive News Radio. In this interview, Laura and I cover the recent announcement by President Obama to open up oil drilling off the East Coast, the vitriolic and incendiary political rhetoric from the far-right, as well as same-sex marriage and other topics.
“Washington Inside and Out” – with Ben Armbruster
May 4
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by Jim Swanson
Progressive News Radio
RUNNING TIME -10:58
Progressive News Radio’s political analyst, Ben Armbruster talks with us this week about oil exploration, the bills in Congress for and against it AND the latest group of Republicans to “punt” on making decision to back Arizona’s Immigration Act. Hey Republican boys and girls, as your former commander in chief, George W. Bush would say, “Are ya with us or against us?”
Enjoy!
Jim
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