Producer/Host: Sarah O’Malley
“Horseshoe crabs”
Transcripts and more information available at http://theworldaroundusradio.blogspot.com/
Earthwise 6/18/16
Producer/Host: Anu Dudley
Production Assistant: John Welles
“Behold, the Sun”
Democracy Forum 6/17/16
Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Participatory Democracy
Program Topic: Press or Propaganda: Corporate Media, a Free Press, and the Future of Democracy
Key Discussion Points:
-Tension between corporate, profit-motivated ownership of mainstream media and the public interest mission served by journalism in an open democracy.
-What roles are old and new media playing in forming an educated electorate in 21st century America?
-The long-held belief in a liberal media bias has been challenged by the success of Fox News and the like. Is this kind of POV media a new phenomenon in American journalism? Which side is winning?
-What happens when the ultra-rich like Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch, and Jeffrey Bezos start buying up news outlets?
-Is this good for democracy? What can citizens do?
Guests:
Michael Franz, Associate Professor at Bowdoin College and co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project. https://mikemfranz.com/
John Christie, co-founder and senior editor for the Maine Center of Public Interest Reporting. http://pinetreewatchdog.org/about/
The all-volunteer team at the League of Women Voters – Downeast who plan and coordinate this series includes:
John Bradford
Linda Hoskins
Ann Luther
Marge May
Pam Person
Leah Taylor
Linda Washburn
FMI re League of Women Voters of Maine: www.lwvme.org
Sustainable House Sketchbook 6/17/16
Producer/Host: Jim Bahoosh
“Kitch 2”
WERU Community SoapBox 6/16/16
Host: Denis Howard
Engineer: John Greenman
An open-mic style call-in show
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 6/16/16
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Did you ever wonder why Facebook is called Facebook? Whatever the reason, perhaps the service should be renamed “Face-eye-ear-text Book.” Here’s why.
Nature’s Remedies 6/16/16
Producer/Host: Tim Hagney
“Finding the homeopathic”
Maine Currents 6/15/16
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman
Local communities respond to the recent mass shooting in Orlando. We bring you to vigils held this week in Bangor and Belfast, Maine and then we talk with long time activist and former “Ism Prism” host Valentine King and open the phone lines for your calls. Valentine King is a cultural maven and independent thinker who has been based in Sommesville, Maine for the past 8 years. Originally from Philadelphia, he was active in the independent arts and queer cultural movement in the 1980s, and was part of the movement fighting for recognition of AIDS as a national health crisis at that time. For many years, he was a youth development worker at the Youth Health Empowerment Project, an agency devoted to promoting HIV prevention and youth leadership.