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Smiley/West Show Removed from Chicago PBS Station WBEZ-FM For Being Unbalanced Prominent African-American broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West had their broadcast collaboration Smiley/West removed from the air at WBEZ, the large Chicago PBS station. CEO Torey Malatia said the show was unbalanced. Many feel the real reason was criticism of President Obama in his hometown. This removes two of the most credible and distinguished African-American voices from a city with a huge non-white population and further reduces liberal and leftwing discourse in the legacy media. Click here for a web form and suggested text to help turn this bad decision around. Former CNN Reporter Reports Inserting "Government Lies and Propaganda" Into Coverage of the Uprising in Bahrain. She Quit. Amber Lyon, a 3-time Emmy award-winning investivagtaive journalist has come out publicly with charges that CNN compromised honest reporting from the Arab Spring uprising in Bahrain and censored her coverage of civilian massacres by requiring the insertion of untrue information at the behest of the Bahrain government. Watch an extended interview with her. Upcoming Workshops Certified Editor Sequence: MA Certification Copyediting - starts October 13th - This Saturday! Review the fundamentals of copyediting and acquire a better sense of how to balance and serve the best interests of your three clients, the publisher, the writer and the reader. Spokesperson Training - starts January 3rd This class will cover the basics of framing an issue and developing talking points, give you lots of practive in role playing friendly and not-so-friendly interview secnarios, discuss the art of the soundbite, cover the basics of public speaking, and put you through the necessary friendly fire of evaluating your own on-air performance. 2012-2013 Northern California Press List Now Available! Pick up a press list and a how-to guide today for everything you need to get your message out with minimal time and money. The Media How-To Guide tells you how and the Northern California press list gives you contact info for print, radio, and television throughout the region - for a pittance. Join us - Become a Media Alliance Member We're not threatening you. We'll keep sending the newsletter whether you become a member or not (unless you think that *is* a threat), because we want to get the information out there and show up when fair communications are threatened every time. But our ability to keep doing it depends on you. I know times are tough, but please consider joining up if you're one of our silent readers. Standard membership is $50, low-income is $35 and 52 weeks of the Jobfile Bulletin is $95. Towards peace and justice, Tracy Need a job? Thinking about a career transition in this difficult economy? Join Media Alliance! Professional members get 52 weeks of media-related job listings in print, broadcast, digital, film, video, communications and advocacy e-mailed to them weekly. Let us do the hunting for you. Less than $2 a week. Sign up now. Donate to keep regional media activism strong in the Bay Area. We can't do it without you.For more on the struggle to save KUSF For more on KPFA and Pacifica. To buy a copy of Censored 2012 from the Media Freedom Foundation For more on Alameda Community Radio The Internet You Need - Original Animated Short on Net Neutrality. Great for Teachers! Media Alliance is a member of a national coalition working for a better communications system and a more just world.
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