[Imc-radio] Re: Fake News Permissions

[Dorian Taylor/Making Contact]

Hello Dave,

Thank you for contacting us. Yes, you may re-broadcast and re-post #15-05.

When it's up, would you please send me a link?

Thank you,

Dori
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on 5/16/05 10:26 AM, Dave Berliner at daveberliner at mac.com wrote:

> I would like permission to re-broadcast and re-post
> Fake News Flap - VNRs and Covert Propaganda #15-05
> for the IMC Radio News in Urbana Champaign 2005-05-16
> 
> The IMC Radio News Airs Monday's at 5:30 on WEFT 90.1 Champaign.
> http://radio.ucimc.org
> 
> I attended The National Conference for Media Reform that took place
> this past weekend May 13-15 2005.  One of the themes of the conference
> was,
> "Shoddy Journalism, Government-funded propaganda, corporate
> consolidation.
> Activists from across the country mobilize to fix our broken media
> system."
> 
> For over 25 weeks I have produced and co-produced the IMC Radio News
> for the Independent Media Center in Urbana Champaign and I am
> dreadfully concerned about whether I am producing Fake News in an
> attempt to provide an outlet for local media activists.  Providing an
> outlet for voices and opinions not often heard in the media also leaves
> the door wide open for propaganda and government influence.
> 
> This was a Making Contact Special on Fake News which was produced in
> part by a former UC-IMC radio member Pauline Bartolone.
>