[1780] in peace2
Help save the WMBR nightly news!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark H. Weaver)
Sun Jun 9 01:14:45 2002
From: "Mark H. Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>
To: peace-announce@mit.edu
Message-Id: <E17Gv0g-0000MT-00@strings.netris.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 01:13:02 -0400
As you may know, WMBR (MIT's radio station) is the only radio station
in the Boston area which airs a nightly news program from a
progressive, anti-corporate perspective. Since the early 90s, we've
aired Pacifica Network News (PNN), and more recently we've been airing
Free Speech Radio News, which was created by the same reporters who
formerly contributed to PNN, but who went on strike while Pacifica was
temporarily under the control of pro-corporate folks who infiltrated
the network and nearly destroyed it.
WMBR's programming board has just decided to cancel the nightly news.
However, there is a chance to save it. In order to do so, we need as
many sympathetic MIT students as possible to become station members
immediately, and to lend their support by becoming official
co-producers of the news program.
In this context, being a "co-producer" just means that you would be
lending your weight as a student to vote for the existence of the news
at WMBR -- nothing more. If you'd like to occasionally produce
reports for our local news program, we'd be thrilled, but that part is
entirely optional.
Becoming a WMBR station member is very easy for MIT students. You
just have to show up at the next management meeting, this coming
Wednesday at 7:30pm, and take a simple membership test after the
meeting. The material you need to study for the test is at:
http://wmbr.mit.edu/member-info.html
Please lend your support at this critical time. As we all know, the
extreme far right is on the rise in this country and throughout the
world, and almost all existing radio and television is going along
with it. WMBR is the only radio station in this area that provides an
antidote every weeknight. Its importance must not be underestimated.
We must save it. Please... PLEASE, help us!
Mark
