| # | Name | Comments |
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| 651 | Ruth Lorenz | |
| 652 | Anonymous | It is absolutely critical that Free Speech Radio remain on the air. In these dark times we need more independent voices, not less. |
| 653 | Jim | |
| 654 | Leili Kashani | |
| 655 | Amar Rajvanshi | I love this station and its programming. Keep it alive. |
| 656 | Cheryl Woerner | I understand that Free Speech Radio is covering the Nader-Gonzalez rallies 8/27/08 and 9/4/08 in Denver and Minneapolis. However, Pacifica's "Democracy Now" is giving extensive coverage to the Democratic and Republican conventions. Why? FSRN is needed to cover third party events! |
| 657 | William Atherton | FSRN is the only place for anything that remotely resembles non-biased news reporting. Their work reflects the highest degree of professionalism I have encountered in listening to news broadcasts for over thirty years. The show may have a bias, but it remains so far outside the mainstream that the normal concepts of 'balance' have no real meaning or purpose to them, which frees their work from promoting either the 'liberal' or 'conservative' (read synonymous) stances that taint almost every other broadcast. FSRN is essential to Pacifica, indeed Pacifica becomes meaningless without their voices. Loosing them is loosing yourselves. |
| 658 | Brendan Regan | |
| 659 | David Rosen | |
| 660 | Mary Ann Swissler | |
| 661 | James E. Owens | The kind of news that FSRN provides is unique and desperately needed. We need to hear daily international news directly from the people of the other countries, un-filtered by the US journalists and the US mainstream media system. We need to hear news based in a social movement for peace and freedom rather than dominance and profit.
I am a graduate student in Communication at the University of Illinois. I have large student loan debt. I cannot make a significant donation.
As traditional newspapers, and traditional broadcast news, moves into digital forms it appears likely that news will itself become less a mass media than a niche media. Targeted audiences are those with high income or power derived from their occupation in government or corporations. People engaged in struggle for a better society are not themselves a desirable niche. That is one reason we will need FSRN more in coming years. Please help sustain FSRN, do not let it dissappear. |
| 662 | emmy koponen | we need this news! so rare in the u.s.. it is my daily show-we are all too strapped financially |
| 663 | HEATH CALDWELL | |
| 664 | Jay Weiner | listen most days, the replay of doc on Charity Hosp new orleans moved me. actual journalism shrinking everywhere! |
| 665 | Jack Billings | |
| 666 | Julie Knapp | |
| 667 | Ellen Carter | I consider FSRN to be one of the few reliable sources of news still available in the US. I listen to their broadcast daily to find out what's going on nationally and around the globe. Continually I am impressed by their thorough professional ability to cover stories. |
| 668 | Eliza Tocher | |
| 669 | Jeffrey Meissner | |
| 670 | James Lee | |
| 671 | Nancy Stanley | |
| 672 | Eleanor Jaluague | |
| 673 | robert cruse | |
| 674 | David | Democracy now is the only news that seems to be giving the coverage and discernment needed these days, they should be getting more funding! |
| 675 | Holly Severson | Free Speech Radio News brings local, non-corporate perspectives from around the world. Please do everything you can to ensure it stays on the air. |
| 676 | Cynthia Talerico | They are an important voice |
| 677 | David W Reece | |
| 678 | Meg Siddheshwari Sullivan | This is where we get the news behind the news, the news that comes out in the mainstream media years later, During this time in the world, espeically, we need FSRN! |
| 679 | Rangeley Wallace | |
| 680 | Anusheh Warda | |
| 681 | Michael Franklin | FSRN represents integrity in journalism, and is a staple in my family for trustworthy news. |
| 682 | luis Perez | |
| 683 | Robert Hass | Free Speech Radio News is one of the most important programs available to Pacifica listleners. The coverage of important U.S. hearings and the recent coverage of the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions provides investigative reporting and commentary not to be found elsewhere. Funding this program should be one of the highest priorities of the Pacifica board, and not relegated to a lower one. Some of the Pacifica stations are not doing an effective enough job of fundraising, so they should be the ones to receive budget cuts, if need be, and not FSRN.
I would also greatly appreciate hearing why Pacifica is still in such dire financial straits. It seems like this problem is never solved.
Thank you.
Bob Hass
Albuquerque, NM |
| 684 | Anonymous | Please support the FSRN. The world needs the FSRN. It gives us hope that money isn't the only way to show us what people in communities around the world truely need, and not just what the fancy news networks feed us. Please reconsider the decision and help FSRN to thrive!! |
| 685 | Brian Garofalo | FSRN is indispensable. The airwaves are bereft of logic and critical thinking, and inundated with advertisements and punditic marionette's. The range and bredth of public opinion is small, and shrinking with each corporate merger. I beseech you, please keep FSRN alive.
I will donate to this cause, for it has earned every penny.
Thank you. |
| 686 | Anonymous | I rely on FSRN profoundly and urge you to continue to support and feature this excellent station. |
| 687 | susan goldstein | Have you appealed to the Open Society Institute to fund the program? |
| 688 | Anonymous | |
| 689 | Anonymous | |
| 690 | Linda Wenrick | I'm extremely disappointed to read of this recent dire cut from FSRN's monthly budget and have sent a one-time only donation to help out.
This is an invalueable and unique world news by on-the-ground reporters -- requisite to an informed understanding during this time of so much government propaganda and media self-censorship. |
| 691 | Scott Cameron | Everyday at work I plug into my computer and listen to the radio, particularly alternative radio. I believe FSRN does a very good job, with quite strong reporting, and would be sad to see it removed. Thanks. |
| 692 | Joe Cochran | |
| 693 | Amory Ballantine | I listen daily to FSRN. I feel that it provides an essential service to our community and would leave a huge information vacuum were it to leave the air. Please prioritize funding for FSRN and let me know if there is anything I can do (as a broke student) to support Pacifica and FSRN.
Thank you. |
| 694 | Paul Read | After the horrific display of state (i.e. governmental) interference with constitutional rights, especially free speech, seen most egregiously in the assault and detention on the independent and alternative press during the recent RNC here in the Twin Cities, it is even more imperative that FSRN remain a vital voice which refuses to read from the approved corporate script. Please do everything possible to save FSRN! The reporters and producers are more than ever a critical resource! Thank you. Rev. Paul N. Read |
| 695 | Krista Chavez | |
| 696 | Steve Gallagher | |
| 697 | Tyler Kinkade | |
| 698 | Arlene Blade | We depend on Free Speech Radio News. Its very important to us! |
| 699 | Jeremy Gordon | Save independent media |
| 700 | Andreas Klamm Journalist | Free speech, freedom of the press, free journalists and liberty are basic and elementary part of a democracy. As we have learned through recent history after dictatorship comes sudden destruction as many of the students have seen the pictures of Germany in 1945. We are not able to afford the luxury of the destruction of a nation, no matter which one it will be. Andreas Klamm, Journalist, Founder of IBS Independent Broadcasting Service Liberty (founded in 1986 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom and in Speyer am Rhein, Germany), broadcasting host of 3mnewswire.org NEWS, and author of several books. |