CHICAGO MEDIA ACTION EMERGENCY ALERT, January 27, 2004
http://www.chicagomediaaction.org

We have some bad news and some possible good news.

First the bad news: Robert McChesney, author of "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" 
and a leader in the media reform movement, was scheduled to give a talk in 
Naperville this evening, January 27.  

We've received the unfortunate news that Robert McChesney has been snowed in 
downstate, and will not be arriving as scheduled.  As a result, the talk he 
was scheduled to give this evening has been cancelled.  (The talk will 
hopefully be rescheduled sometime in the spring.  We will of course pass 
along word of details of the rescheduling when we learn about them.)

Please notify anyone who was planning to attend.

Now the possible good news: A campaign is underway to encourage WBEZ 
(Chicago's main NPR affiliate) to air the radio news program Democracy Now! 
in Chicago.  A decision as to whether WBEZ will air Democracy Now! will be 
made before the month of January is out, so be sure to act quickly.  More details are below.

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Pete Caithamer is working to get Democracy Now! on the air.  He needs our help.

Democracy Now! is a daily one-hour news show which actually covers the 
news without the spin factor.  (You can learn more about Democracy Now! 
at www.democracynow.org and listen to any show aired since its 
inception in 1996 at its archives.) 

Peter has asked WBEZ, an NPR affiliate in Chicago, to pick up the show. 
Ron Jones, the News Manager at WBEZ, will be making a decision on 
Peter's request within the next few days.  We need to call him and 
ask him to put Democracy Now! on WBEZ and in a prime time slot!

You can reach Mr. Jones directly at (312) 948-4647. 

Mr. Caithamer is suggesting that volunteers in Dupage county might 
want to call Mary Pat Larue (630) 942-3708 at WDCB, an NPR affiliate 
located at the College of DuPage and request that they start airing 
Democracy Now!

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