enarcmot Lorenzo Milam inspired people to start KKFI community radio in Kansas City. He challenged the FCC with his petition against duopoly years ago. He maintained that radio should be a medium for everyone and every point of viewl
He also wrote a manual on starting a community radio station called “Sex and Broadcasting”.
The largest family-owned group of newspapers, McClatchy, which also owns the Kansas City Star, has been sold to a hedge fund company that also owns the National Enquirer one of Trump’s supporters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/business/media/hedge-fund-mcclatchy-newspapers.html
“McClatchy, the publisher of The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer and its flagship publication, The Sacramento Bee, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February. Chatham, an investor in the company since 2009, is its largest creditor. In recent months it put together the bid that has been declared the winner in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court auction supervised by Judge Michael E. Wiles, a McClatchy spokeswoman said on Sunday.
The heads of all the Voice of America outlets have been fired as well as their boards of directors. The story is told in Common Dreams.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/wednesday-night-massacre-trumps-new-right-wing-propaganda-chief-initiates-purge-us
Dan Rather@DanRather – Watching President Obama’s graduation address tonight I think I finally understand Obamagate. It’s the scandal of having a president being able to speak with empathy, humor, insight, inspiration and in complete and coherent sentences.
Friends of Community Media will hold its monthly meeting of the second Saturday of the month at 2:00 PM Saturday, 5/10/20 via Zoom video conferencing. Minutes from the previous meeting are available. To join in if you did not get the email, contact Spencer Graves our secretary who has set it up. He will provide a password. Some agenda items include (additions are welcome):
AGENDA FOR FRIENDS OF COMMUNITY MEDIA MEETING 2020-05-09
* FCM Mission:
* Minutes of the last meeting? .
* Treasurer Report:
Website Committee: ourfcm.org:E
vents Committee:Craig regarding videoconference for the Media & Religion speaker for our canceled May 17?
Launching a new local nonprofit news organization to work with KKFI: Spencer is still looking for a journalist to collaborate with us. He is talking about contacting hyperlocal news sites like
● John Sharp and the Martin City Telegraph (https://martincitytelegraph.com)
● The Shawnee Mission Post (https://shawneemissionpost.com/)
● The Midtown KC Post (http://midtownkcpost.com/)
● Other contacts via LION(Local Independent Online News) Publishers (https://www.lionpublishers.com/lion-member-spotlight-midtown-kc-post/)?
However, Spencer hasn’t created time to work on this recently.NEW BUSINESS:· Co-sponsoring candidate fora with PeaceWorksKC.org and / or local chapters of the League of Women Voters?·
Carrying out FCMannual meeting and board election. How?
Reporters Without Borders assessment.
