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<p>I&#8217;ve had the blues,<br />
The reds and the pinks<br />
One thing for sure<br />
Love stinks !</p></blockquote>
<p style="padding-left:90px;">—J Geils Band</p>
<p>It&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day again, that wonderful super sweet holiday designed just for the lover in all of us .The one day of the year dedicated to that most special of all emotions, the one thing that keeps the whole wide world a-turnin&#8217;. Yes we&#8217;re talking about love. Love, the most elevated and high minded of all emotions, the one sure fire dividing line between us and those lowly animals who will never know the thrill of just sharing space with that one incredible being who lights up your life, opens up your heart and lets the light of the cosmos shine down upon you.</p>
<p>And if you believe all of that then you either haven&#8217;t hit puberty yet or you are the most gullible person that Hallmark Cards has ever seen coming down the pike. Love&#8217;s a bitch, and a dirty back-stabbing one at that. Pat Benatar once sang that &#8220;Love is a Battlefield,&#8221;  but that assumes a chance of actually winning somehow. Love isn&#8217;t a battlefield, it&#8217;s a myth. A rumor, not to be believed. Sure, you hear of people finding their one true love, but you also hear of people being taken up in flying saucers. And I put about the same amount of faith in each. Back in high school I read the book <em>Love Story. </em>The author said that love meant never having to say that you&#8217;re sorry. Mainly I was sorry that I had wasted my time reading such a load of crap. If you never want to say you&#8217;re sorry then I&#8217;d recommend a massive bank account, not true love.</p>
<p>Of course one could say that I&#8217;m somewhat cynical. . . . But if so then I&#8217;m hardly the only one. Have you ever looked into the content of love songs? For every &#8220;Unchained Melody&#8221; there are at least two &#8220;Heart of Stone&#8221;s. For example, a few Valentines ago I was suffering from a major case of lust (not love, sorry) and set out to put together a mix tape of &#8220;Love&#8221; songs for someone. And I soon discovered it was damn near impossible to put together 20 songs about love without a good percent of them being about the down side of it all. The side that rips the beating heart out of your chest just so you can feel the pain, the part where that bottle of sleeping pills looks more and more delicious by the minute. I finally did get that tape put together and sent it off to the object of my desires and . . . two days later she was back with her ex and I haven&#8217;t heard from her since. So maybe the love songs did have an impact, but hardly the one I intended. And that&#8217;s love in a nutshell. Just as soon as you believe in it, you can count on it twisting and turning and becoming the one thing you fear the most — love gone away. And that leads to the other love songs, the ones designed to help you deal with the reality, not with the myth.</p>
<p>So a few years ago I was really happy to discover a celebration of those dark, disturbing songs, the ones that outnumber the sappy ones, the ones that would win any election due to sheer numbers  alone. And it&#8217;s on February 15th, the day all the sweetness comes crashing down. I was first turned onto this dark celebration by KUT-FM <em>Eklektikos</em> host John Aielli. He dedicates his post-Valentines show every year to love&#8217;s bad side, and he starts off every year with the incredible &#8220;Love Stinks&#8221; by the J Geils Band, maybe the best stinkin&#8217; love song of all. I say maybe the best because once you start digging into them the list is amazingly long, and it just keeps growing. Apparently one of the top growth industries every year is that of heartbreak and disillusionment; new entries just keep coming in. So John&#8217;s celebration of the bad side of love always stays fresh, there&#8217;s never any shortage of material.</p>
<p>But this year I&#8217;ve been worrying if another shortage might hit the Love Stinks celebration — that being a shortage of show host. John Aielli has been hospitalized twice in the past 30 days or so, heart issues of a whole different stripe. The first occurrence was an actual heart attack the night of January 4th, and he was hospitalized and was off the air for a couple of weeks while recovering. He returned for a few days but then on January 30th he had another episode while preparing for his show and was hospitalized again, thankfully returning on February 6th. We here at the site are big fans of John and wish him a full and speedy recovery, as his contributions to the arts here in Austin are immeasurable. John has been with KUT for over 40 years, and his ability to roll with the punches is almost as astounding. I can&#8217;t even count how many changes in management he has seen. I&#8217;ve always figured that John would weather the current regime as well, and here&#8217;s hoping he does. I don&#8217;t want to rehash our problems with current management in this piece. I think instead I will just say how happy I am that John is still on the air, and that we hope for more shows like these. I don&#8217;t know what Valentines Day would be like for me now without John. Not the stupid Hallmark Holiday on the 14th of course, but that wonderful return to cynical reality the next day. Love Stinks indeed . . .</p>
<p>To salute John this year I&#8217;ve put together a top 10 list of my own favorite stinking love songs, with of course &#8220;Love Stinks&#8221; at the top. But other than that they are in no particular order. So take a look, maybe put your own list together. And then keep them in mind when you&#8217;re eyeing that new sweetie, the one you know you could always love all of your life. And then remind yourself that these songs didn&#8217;t write themselves — think of them as those warning signs you see around high-voltage wires. Or those labels on pill bottles . . .  Then wise up and remember</p>
<p>LOVE STINKS ! ! !</p>
<p>Here are Rev Jim&#8217;s stinking love songs. I hope to hear them time &amp; again forever.</p>
<ol>
<li>Love Stinks   J. Geils Band</li>
<li>Heart of Stone   Rolling Stones</li>
<li>Heartbreak Hotel   Elvis Presley</li>
<li>Alison   Elvis Costello</li>
<li>It&#8217;s Not Supposed to Be That Way   Willie Nelson</li>
<li>Empty Handed Heart   Warren Zevon</li>
<li>Love Has No Pride   Bonnie Raitt</li>
<li>Thin Line Between Love and Hate   The Pretenders</li>
<li>Roses in the Fire   Rosanne Cash</li>
<li>Why D&#8217;ya Do It   Marianne Faithful</li>
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<p>—Rev Jim  February 2012</p>
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<p><strong>NATIONAL PENTAGON RADIO</strong></p>
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<p>This morning <em>NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition</em> did a piece about an Iraqi woman, described as fiction (so one wonders why this would appear on a &#8220;news&#8221; program), who says when she saw the American troops coming to invade she &#8220;cried tears of joy&#8221; (<a href="http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=144420021&amp;m=144418303" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">listen here</a> if you want to hear propaganda so extreme that <em>FOX News</em> would reject it).</p>
<p><em>NPR</em> spread the lies of the Bush regime about weapons of mass destruction to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq, and its talking heads, particularly Scott Simon, pushed for war week after week leading up to Shock and Awe.  At the time, we are proud to say, <em>LUV News</em> was reporting facts by the world&#8217;s foremost experts on Iraqi weapons saying there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (we also opposed the war beforehand and ran opinion pieces by peace activists who were not allowed into the mass media).</p>
<p>Hopeless propagandists, <em>NPR</em> is still spinning the war, having, as far as we know, never apologized for the lies that resulted in so many deaths, so much destruction, leaving millions still refugees.</p>
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				<h2><a href="http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/2011/11/30/hip-deep-in-the-big-muddy-of-hd-radio/" rel="bookmark" title="Hip Deep in the Big Muddy of HD&nbsp;Radio">Hip Deep in the Big Muddy of HD&nbsp;Radio</a></h2>

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<p>A correspondent sent this link along about the latest developments in HD radio, along with a scathing commentary about what this latest insanity portends:</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-11302011.html" target="_blank">http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-11302011.html</a> this morning (11/30):</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong><img src="http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/logo_hdradio.jpg" alt="HD Radio" width="115" height="50" align="left" border="0" hspace="10" />Improving HD Radio reception is the goal of an FCC Public Notice on “Asymmetric sideband operations”, </strong>and now we’ve got the comment dates. Comments are due by December 19, with reply comments due January 3. This is the story TRI told you about on November 2 – “’Asymmetric’ may not sound sexy, but it might be one key to improving coverage for HD Radio FMs.’ Basically, the Commission says “a significant number of FM stations are precluded from taking advantage of the full 10 dB digital power increase permitted by the order, due to the presence of a nearby station on one but not both of the first first-adjacent channels.” If stations could run an “asymmetrical” signal – stronger on one side – they could raise digital power.</p></blockquote>
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<p>So the Federal Cookie Company is moving ahead with this idiotic idea.  It won&#8217;t improve &#8220;HD&#8221; coverage significantly, but it will increase interference to adjacents, at least on one side of the analog channel.</p>
<p>The &#8220;HD&#8221; signals are <span style="text-decoration:underline;">not</span> sidebands in the literal sense of the word. They are two independently generated digital signals, one occupying the closer half of each first-adjacent channel.  And they are <span style="text-decoration:underline;">not</span> synchronized.  That accounts for both for the excessive time delay imposed on the analog signal, which is necessary to keep it synchronized with the digital output at the receiver, and for the &#8220;HD&#8221; system&#8217;s <span style="text-decoration:underline;">relative</span> (not absolute) advantage in the face of multiplex under <span style="text-decoration:underline;">some</span> (not all) conditions.  (The two &#8220;HD&#8221; signals seldom suffer identical interference, and an &#8220;HD&#8221; receiver delays the two side-channel signal, picking and choosing whichever parts of each signal seem most intact to reconstruct an undamaged digital stream.)</p>
<p>Of course, that won&#8217;t work if one of the two digital side-channel signals is too weak to use!</p>
<p>So where could this increase the coverage range for &#8220;HD&#8221; FM?  Only on fixed (not mobile) receivers with (presumably) outdoor antennas.  Indoor antennaswould be subject to the effects of people &#8212; or pets? &#8211; getting too close and interferreing with marginal signals.  So who has that?  How about translators?</p>
<p>I can see no practical purpose (and I use the word &#8220;practical&#8221; loosely!) for asymmetrical &#8220;HD&#8221; <span style="text-decoration:underline;">except</span> to enlarge the area where a network of analog translators could be used to make it possible for a signal from an HD-2 or HD-3 subchannel to reach a real audience.</p>
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				<h2><a href="http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/2011/11/18/npr-plays-lapdog-during-occupy-protests/" rel="bookmark" title="NPR Plays Lapdog During Occupy&nbsp;Protests">NPR Plays Lapdog During Occupy&nbsp;Protests</a></h2>

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					<h2>THE EMPIRE ATTACK ON PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT</h2>
<p>The propagandists of NPR began their Morning Edition program this morning by describing yesterday&#8217;s Occupy Wall Street protesters as &#8220;mostly peaceful.&#8221; This is the way they discredit the movement, by insinuating that one should expect violence from those opposed to corporate greed at any cost. NPR did not notice anything amiss from the police, who they did not describe as &#8220;mostly peaceful.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Many protesters complained of police brutality,&#8221; pointed out <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/11/20111117131646693785.html"><em>al Jazeera,</em></a> &#8220;pointing to one image of a man whose face was bloodied during his arrest and another of a woman who was dragged across the sidewalk by an officer, Reuters news agency reported.</p>
<p>“&#8217;They tried to use a lot different tactics against us. They kept putting blockades within the movement to stop people from moving freely. They are almost treating us like cattle instead of human beings,&#8217; said Sergeant Shamar Thomas, a veteran of the Iraq war and a protester.</p>
<p>&#8220;Somebody was hit in the head with a baton. It is not that police doesn’t have the right to arrest. It is the excessive force that they use — if you have a man on the ground, why are you hitting him in the head with a baton.&#8221;</p>
<p>Police also attacked <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/occupy-wall-street-nov-17-journalists-arrested-beaten_n_1099661.html?ref=media">journalists</a> without NPR noticing, journalists who were trying to report what is really happening around the corporate media propagandists who see the world through the eyes of the ruling Forces of Greed and National Security State.</p>
<p>&#8220;Lucy Kafanov, a reporter for the RT television network, said she was hit with a police baton while trying to film the protests. She told another reporter for her network that she had her press credentials clearly visible, but was still struck. She also said that she witnessed another reporter from the IndyMedia network being &#8220;slammed against the wall&#8221; and arrested.</p>
<p>&#8220;It does not seem police are making a distinction between press and protesters,&#8221; she said. Other journalists reported similar incidents.</p>
<p>&#8220;Saw NYPD hitting a man with a nightstick. Tried to take a picture but police grabbed me and shoved me across the street,&#8221; DNAInfo editor Julie Shapiro tweeted. &#8220;The NYPD just slammed a barricade into a photographer,&#8221; another report read.</p>
<p>&#8220;The <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/17/daily-caller-reporter-videographer-assaulted-by-nypd-during-occupy-protests/"><em>Daily Caller</em></a> also said that two of its reporters were &#8216;assaulted&#8217; with batons.&#8221;</p>
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					<p>Dear Friends of WRVU,</p>
<p>I know it has been quiet lately, worse than quiet, perhaps, in Nashville where the endless classical music on 91.1 FM pretends that everything is A-OK.   The turmoil behind the scenes, however, rages on.  Fine WRVU DJs have been banned from the online station in a shockingly transparent mass-elimination of those who vocally opposed the frequency sale last semester. The remaining live DJs struggle to keep an audience via online stream and have deeply lamented the loss of regular callers, regular listeners.  DJ HAL (the automated playlist) dominates the current schedule spinning random tunes 13+ hours each day.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the classical music on WFCL “91-One” is not pulling in the listeners Nashville Public Radio might have expected.  In fact, despite the money and corporate strategy behind promoting the new station, the current ratings for WFCL are not much higher than we were seeing with WRVU.  In addition, ratings on WPLN have been down since they went public with their intentions to purchase the WRVU frequency.</p>
<p>Many thanks to those of you who have expressed your dissatisfaction with Nashville Public Radio in regards to their intent to purchase 91.1 FM.  Please keep up the pressure by writing WPLN President Rob Gordon  <a href="mailto:rgordon@wpln.org" target="_blank">rgordon@wpln.org</a> and boycotting Nashville Public Radio pledge drives and fundraisers.</p>
<p>The simplest solution to this entire situation would be for WPLN to back out of the deal and return the frequency to its rightful owners &#8212; the students of WRVU.</p>
<p>We know that Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC) still owns the 91.1 FM frequency and they have entered into an LMA,<br />
Lease-Management Agreement, with Nashville Public Radio. According to the strict FCC laws that govern this sort of contract, the frequency owners retain the right to cancel the LMA at any point.  Without entirely new leadership at the VSC, however, it is hard to imagine this happening.</p>
<p>While we would prefer not to involve attorneys, the Federal Communications Commission, and the State of Tennessee in our quest to Save WRVU, we are committed to doing what is right for the people of Nashville, the students of Vanderbilt University, and college radio supporters around the world.</p>
<p>Over the past few months, WRVU Friends &amp; Family representatives have been traveling to the nation’s hottest radio conferences (CMJ, CBI, GRC) joining with our brethren from KTRU and KUSF warning college broadcasters of a College Radio Crisis that is now in full swing.</p>
<p>Public Radio Capital (PRC) is an aggressive financing group that has been involved with just about every College Radio buyout in recent history.  One of their Board Members also sits on the Board of Nashville Public Radio.  You are invited to learn more about PRC using the link below. It is because of this group &amp; their aggressive national campaign to acquire educational frequencies that we know we must fight harder. No longer is this struggle about one college radio station, it is about the existence of this diverse and dynamic medium as a whole.</p>
<p>We learned from industry experts at CMJ and CBI that our struggle in Nashville combined with those at KTRU in Houston and KUSF in San Francisco has slowed the tide of College Radio frequency sales &amp; has piqued the interest of the FCC.</p>
<p>This has been a long, VERY LONG ordeal but there have been some victories and although they seem small to us, still lost without our beloved frequency, these accomplishments are quite big to the rest of the college radio world.</p>
<p>We MUST continue the fight.</p>
<p>Over the past year, a handful of volunteers have waged this battle for WRVU 91.1 FM without asking for money. We have been working out of our pockets &amp; off of a few random contributions that have come our way (Thank you, BTW, &amp; look for another message soon as to how we hope to repay your unsolicited generosity!).</p>
<p>Within the coming weeks, however, we will be launching a new fundraising platform on the <a href="http://vivawrvu.org/" target="_blank">vivawrvu.org</a> website.</p>
<p>We hope you all will reflect on how much WRVU has meant to you – as education and as entertainment &#8211;  and contribute accordingly.  The money raised by the WRVU Friends &amp; Family will be used for the sole purpose of getting Vanderbilt students back on the FM dial.  This is a goal we DO believe we can accomplish but we will need the support of the entire community.</p>
<p>Please know that we have spent many, many months investigating this situation. Feel confident that we would not ask for your money if we did not think this was a battle that we can WIN.</p>
<p>WE CAN WIN.</p>
<p>¡¡¡VIVA WRVU!!!<br />
<a href="http://www.vivawrvu.org/" target="_blank">http://www.vivawrvu.org</a></p>
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<p>Ousted WRVU DJ Pete Wilson Speaks Out Against &#8216;Micromanaging and Censoring&#8217; by VSC<br />
By Steve Harush, Nashville Scene<br />
<a href="http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2011/09/27/ousted-wrvu-dj-pete-wilson-speaks-out-against-micromanaging-and-censoring-by-vsc" target="_blank">http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2011/09/27/ousted-wrvu-dj-pete-wilson-speaks-out-against-micromanaging-and-censoring-by-vsc</a></p>
<p>Public Radio Capital: Money from the Sky<br />
By Jim Vest, Keep Public Radio Public<br />
<a href="http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/2011/08/26/public-radio-capital-money-from-the-sky/" target="_blank">http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/2011/08/26/public-radio-capital-money-from-the-sky/</a></p>
<p>College Radio’s Fight for FM<br />
By Jennifer Waits,Radio Survivor<br />
<a href="http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/10/18/college-radios-fight-for-fm/" target="_blank">http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/10/18/college-radios-fight-for-fm/</a></div>
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<p>On Thursday, November 18, 1999, the world lost one of its most unique and wonderful characters. Whether you called him Sir Doug, The Texas Tornado, or maybe even Wayne Douglas, there was only one Douglas Wayne Sahm. A musical prodigy, he made his first radio appearance at age five and recorded his first record at eleven. He was an absolute whirlwind of energy, and he was Texas through and through. Back in the Seventies, he was one of the artists who drew me here from the oilfields of Wyoming. His album <em>Groovers Paradise </em>was an homage to Austin, from its Kerry Awn artwork to songs like <em>Beautiful Texas Sunshine</em>, no one could listen to it and ignore the urge to come to Austin. Not that anyone resisted much — Doug was like a high-energy beacon drawing in the musically curious. And he was not an unknown starving artist. In those days, he was one of the few Austin artists to have had any real national exposure. He had hit records with the Sir Douglas Quintet, solo albums, and rave reviews from <em>Rolling Stone</em>. Bob Dylan was a major fan. And he played all genres — country, Tejano, blues, rock-n-roll. Doug could play it all with an authenticity that no one else could match, due in large part to his upbringing in San Antonio, a real melting pot of musical styles. He was widely respected by his peers and truly loved by his fans. So when he died suddenly at age 58 while on the road in Taos, the whole town felt as though it had been gut-punched. You could almost feel his energy draining away.</p>
<p>As the word spread that night, an impromptu group of mourners gathered, and its meeting place was public radio station KUT-FM. Since it was a Thursday night, the scheduled program was <em>Phil Music</em>.<em> </em>Its creator and longtime host was Larry Monroe. The people gathering that night ranged from fellow DJs to journalists to Doug’s fellow musicians and collaborators. I was not in the studio that night. I was at home tuned in. But what transpired over the next few hours was what public radio always aspires to be but very rarely attains. It touched the heart of the community it served and brought us all together in a moving tribute to a friend&#8217;s passing. I went to bed that night with echoes of Doug&#8217;s songs in my head.</p>
<p>But of course the next morning, the world moved on, as it always does. Austin eventually moved on as well, growing fast and going through many changes as it did. And changes came to KUT as well, many of them not expected or appreciated by those who felt they had helped grow the station to its national stature. In 2000, there was a change in station management. Phil Corriveau, the station manager in charge at the time of Doug&#8217;s passing, was let go, replaced by Stewart Vanderwilt, a radio professional whose last job had been at WBST in Muncie, Indiana, where his performance had mixed reviews. Almost immediately, rumors started that programs such as <em>Phil Music </em>were under scrutiny to be axed. Mr. Vanderwilt gave public assurances that it was not so, that he felt such programs were part of KUT’s appeal to its listeners, as indeed they were. But changes were made, slowly at first, then at a faster pace. One of the first shows to be cut was Teresa Ferguson&#8217;s <em>Femme FM</em>, then the all-night shows bit the dust. On the day shift, John Aielli&#8217;s <em>Eklektikos</em> was cut from six to four hours, and he was placed on the same newly designated song-rotation schedule as the other music programs. By the middle of the decade, the station was down to two DJs doing four 8-11 pm shows during the week — Larry Monroe with <em>Blue Monday </em>and <em>Phil Music </em>on Mondays and Thursdays and Paul Ray with <em>Paul Ray&#8217;s Jazz</em> on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.</p>
<p>Then, on Thursday, July 2, 2010, the hammer came down. Jody Evans, the program director newly appointed from Vermont, called both men in separately and announced their shows were being discontinued. Paul Ray was on his first day of vacation at the time. Larry Monroe was given a four-hour notice that the long-running <em>Phil Music</em> had been axed — their meeting was at 4 pm and he had been scheduled to broadcast the popular program that night at 8:00 — pretty cold treatment for a dedicated DJ who had contributed so much to the station for so long. Both men also lost their 11 pm-to-3 am programs (replaced with a national canned show, <em>Undercurrents</em>) as well as their health insurance, since they were no longer working 20 hours per week.</p>
<p>No advance notice was given to the public, and no input was ever solicited. In one fell swoop, the old guard was gone, and three evening time slots were given to newcomer Matt Reilly.</p>
<p>Then, of course, came months of meetings and protests. Austin luminaries such as former Mayor Lee Cooke and former councilman Daryl Slusher joined in, as well a huge contingent of Austin musicians and loyal listeners. Benefit concerts were held, and there were meetings with station managers and UT officials, all of which went nowhere, with station managers refusing to compromise and the UT president refusing to intervene. After that, Larry Monroe continued on with his one show, the award-winning <em>Blue Monday</em>, until August 30, 2010, when he officially retired from KUT.</p>
<p>Since that time, the station has been completely under the control of Stewart Vanderwilt and Hawk Mendenhall, and it runs on their guidelines — no more free-form programming, no more hour-long sets of music. Any visitors to the station must now be cleared by management in advance, and there is no deviation allowed from the formatted song rotation. And since they are doing so with the blessing of UT regents and have been able to meet their fundraising goals, I long ago resigned myself to the loss of the station that I once enjoyed so much.</p>
<p>Then on the morning of September 30, 2011, when I listened to the KUT fall fundraiser, I heard mention of the night Doug Sahm died as well as the tribute show that followed, and the memories of that night came flooding back, a perfect example of how great the station <em>used</em> to be. The DJ who brought up the subject was the new Friday <em>Eklektikos </em>host, Jody Denberg. Mr. Denberg was one of those who went down to KUT that sad night in 1999. At that time, he was with commercial station KGSR. So Mr. Denberg is well aware of just what the situation <em>was</em> at KUT and at least <em>should</em> be aware of how different things are now at the station. But his pitch that morning was to use a transcendent night from long ago as a reason to pledge money to the station now, completely ignoring all of the changes that have happened since that time. He made no mention of Larry Monroe or of <em>Phil Music</em>. To hear him tell the story you would think there had been no changes whatsoever at KUT. And for the new listeners whom KUT is trying to lure with such pitches, there <em>is</em> no difference. All they’ve ever heard is the homogenized, tightly formatted middle-of-the-road programming that Mr. Vanderwilt probably had in mind from his first day on the job back in 2000.</p>
<p>Apparently, station personnel are now going to start trying to whitewash the past, to create a revisionist history in which there never was any free-form programming, no drop-in guests, no freedom of expression for the on-air personalities. As I stated above, I long ago gave up trying to bring the old ways back — Stewart Vanderwilt has won. But I think it is a Pyrrhic victory at best. The new ratings came out recently and show that KUT has dropped from number 1 to number 5 to number 9 and now has slipped into the 10th position among the Top Ten stations in Austin. So maybe the revisionist history is being created to cover up what has been lost, to eliminate any great moments from the past.</p>
<p>And what will happen the next time Austin loses one of its musical icons? I can&#8217;t imagine anyone showing up on a Thursday night to gather for <em>Music With Matt Reilly</em>,<em> </em>even if such gatherings were still allowed. I think the best we could expect from KUT would be some eventual high-gloss hour-long fluff piece from the velvet-voiced David Brown on <em>Texas Music Matters</em>. But anything that would actually have a personal impact at the time? Simply not allowed . . . But that is only at KUT, the<em> old</em> voice for the Austin music scene.</p>
<p>Today, that sense of musical community has moved down the dial a bit, over to a low-power FM station in Dripping Springs — KDRP. And over there we find old friends from the old Austin music scene, including broadcasting and performing legend Sammy Allred. And, of course, KDRP is the new home of Larry Monroe, complete with both <em>Blue Monday </em>and <em>Phil Music </em>back on their original nights Monday and Thursday, from 7-10 pm. Station manager Ryan Schuh has promised Larry complete artistic control over his shows. Drop-in guests? No problem! Hours-long tributes to a single artist? Absolutely! And he has put his money where his mouth is. Larry Monroe has already done several long tributes, including to Pinetop Perkins and Calvin Russell. See our article on those &#8220;Passing Tributes&#8221; (<a href="http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/2011/04/11/passing-tributes/">http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/2011/04/11/passing-tributes/</a>). The vision shown by the people at KDRP is exactly what may save radio as an art form as well as make KDRP the focal point whenever the community needs to come together.</p>
<p>Doug Sahm has always cast a long shadow over this town, and I&#8217;d say that his spirit still does. We now have Doug Sahm Hill in South Austin, and the annual celebration of his life at Antone&#8217;s is one of the greatest gatherings of Austin musicians at any time. His ghost was definitely with me while I wrote this. I’ve been listening to a recording of that night from almost twelve years ago and marvel again at Doug, Larry, Margaret Moser, Ernie Durawa, and all the others who went to the studio then. As for Jody Denberg, I hope that when he next thinks of that night that he will remember how Doug&#8217;s spirit brought everyone down to Larry&#8217;s program, <em>not</em> just to a station, and that he will leave the fundraising and the whitewashing out of such memories and give everyone who brought healing to the community their due. From the people in the studio that night to those listening at home, I think we did Doug proud. Lets not change that now.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">—Rev Jim</p>
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					<h2>TROLLS GONE WILD</h2>
<p>by savewrvuradio</p>
<h4>TROLL IN CHIEF CARROLL LORDS OVER &#8216;NEW&#8217; WRVU</h4>
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<p>Chris Carroll, Please Go Away.</p>
<p>As noted earlier, Carroll and the Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC) — wholly deprived of representatives of WRVU —continues to have an overbearing role over what is now, in name only, a student run organization.  Carroll has made it a career at Vanderbilt to wrest control of basic responsibilities out of student hands and, now, continues unabated, with a new string shameful deeds as the neutered new Vanderbilt student-run radio station starts its &#8216;reboot&#8217; semester.  The latest Carroll dictate is making sure that DJs, who rightly aired grievances with the recent deplorable actions of the VSC, and its dishonest handling of the proposed sale of WRVU over the past year,  be subjected to an unprecedented VSC &#8216;screening&#8217; process.  Troll in chief, Chris Carroll, unsurprisingly is rejecting applications of djs who have not proved sufficiently submissive through the recent Carroll-led attempts at poaching WRVU away from the students to largely pay Carroll and VSC &#8216;adult&#8217; salary bloat.</p>
<p>A letter the editor from one such victim, a 10+ year WRVU DJ and current Vanderbilt Staff Member as well as the host of a long-running highly popular show wrote the following:</p>
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<h4>VSC REVOKES VU STAFF MEMBER&#8217;S DJ PRIVILEGES</h4>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>[...] my application to do a show this fall was rejected by Student Media Adviser Chris Carroll (acting alone). When I discussed this with him, I was told he thought I’d be &#8216;toxic&#8217; at WRVU because I had often stated publicly that an online-only WRVU would be a poor substitute for an FM station and thus the sale was a bad idea. He claimed I would badmouth the station and poison student morale. (I’m an alumnus and a VU staff member. Before turning in show applications, we’d been told that VU-affiliated non-students’ applications would merely be &#8216;reviewed&#8217; by VSC and did not need &#8216;approval.&#8217;)</p>
<p>I said that when I decided to do a show again, I determined to do what I could to improve WRVU in its new form. Why would I sign up if I wanted to sabotage WRVU? I promised not to &#8216;editorialize&#8217; while working, and suggested that at the first questionable syllable they could can me. I pointed out that no WRVU staffer had expressed resentment of my comments — we’d been on the same side. None of this made a difference. I think Carroll just doesn’t want me to have any chance to state my opinions publicly. This seems a clear example of censorship by prior restraint.</p>
<p>It was also clear that Carroll was retaliating against me for opposing VSC.  He claimed that giving me a show would be like<br />
inviting someone to your house for dinner after he had insulted you.</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>Carroll said that he would rather run automation, which currently fills much of the schedule, than give a show to someone whom he sees as a potential troublemaker. This was not the will of the station staff. General Manager Robert Ackley enthusiastically invited my continued participation and that of the two other rejectees (for whom I do not speak here, by the way). [...]</p>
<p>I believe Student Media Adviser Carroll is imposing his will on the station for reasons of censorship and retaliation (against me in this case). I feel I’ve been wronged, but I write also because I think Carroll is behaving unethically to disempower opposition to the license sale — which by the way is not yet complete — and establish greater control over WRVU. Once again VSC makes clear that the interests of WRVU and its student staff are not a priority.</p>
<p>Does this mean students shouldn’t support WRVU? Of course not. It’s more important now than ever. WRVU is still a golden opportunity for students and a part of Nashville culture, whether on the airwaves or not. Keep your eye out for ways to show your support, and become a DJ yourself — it’s your right as a student, and fun as hell.  This is a crucial moment and you can be a part of it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Read full letter <a href="http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/17876">HERE</a>.</p>
<p>Note that this letter to the editor is posted on<em> InsideVandy</em> also under Carroll&#8217;s purview and unsurprisingly, readers have found it difficult to get their responses to show in the <a href="http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/17876#comment-19151">comments section</a>. Hmmmmmmmm.</p>
<p>The real shocker is that this Troll overlord is operating unfettered, at the obvious expense of the students, with full complicity with the Vanderbilt administration, who ostensibly should be functioning on behalf of the students and keeping a check on these &#8216;adult&#8217; trolls gone wild.</p>
<h4>ARE THERE BIGGER FORCES AT PLAY?!?</h4>
<p>A great in-depth report on the PRC, strip-miner of college radio, can be found <a href="http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/2011/08/26/public-radio-capital-money-from-the-sky/">HERE</a> in the invaluable blog <a href="http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/">Keeping the Public in Public Radio</a>. In the article, WRVU&#8217;s case is highlighted as being the latest in a string of &#8216;serial killings&#8217;.</p>
<p>A must read: Public Radio Capital: Money From the Sky.</p>
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					<p>Greetings Friends…</p>
<p>If it seems like we’ve been quiet lately, it is because someone doesn’t want us heard.   Besides the obvious, though temporary, loss of the FM frequency, WRVU DJs who have been openly opposed to the license sale have now been dismissed from their positions with the online station.   In addition, our side of the story –i.e. “this isn’t over yet”– has been excluded from campus coverage of the frequency sale.   Vanderbilt publications are either ignoring the subject altogether or they are incorrectly representing the sale as complete.</p>
<p>WRVU Friends &amp; Family representatives have recently written InsideVandy, Vanderbilt Magazine, Dot Commodore, and Vanderbilt Hustler asking them to hold up the tenants of good journalism which they purport to adhere.  At best, these letters have received a cursory response.  At worst, they have been outright rejected.</p>
<p>Since we can’t seem to get any print on campus, we figured we would send this letter directly to the supporters of WRVU.  Additionally you will find the response we received from the InsideVandy Opinion Editor after the letter was submitted a second time.</p>
<p>Loyal Fans &amp; Listeners of WRVU, the battle for 91.1 FM continues . . .</p>
<p>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
<div>+++++++++++</p>
<p>To the Editor,</p>
<p>Many students were upset after the public announcement in September of<br />
2010 that VSC was considering selling the WRVU 91.1 FM frequency. Your<br />
article of 8/24/2011 summarizes some of their frustration and the<br />
efforts that these students undertook to try to save the frequency.<br />
However, your article overlooks the substantial and ongoing efforts of<br />
alumni and community members to preserve the station. In fact, Save<br />
WRVU&#8217;s Facebook page has over 6,500 Friends and a non-profit<br />
organization called WRVU Friends and Family (<a href="http://www.vivawrvu.org/" target="_blank">www.vivawrvu.org</a>) was<br />
formed to halt the sale.</p>
<p>What is most unfortunate in your article is the presentation that the<br />
transfer of the license and Vanderbilt&#8217;s possession of an FM frequency<br />
license is complete. While there may be some who have given up the<br />
fight, actual facts indicate otherwise. Chiefly, Nashville Public Radio<br />
has not yet met the obligations agreed to under the sale (namely, paying<br />
for it) and the Federal Communication Commission has not announced a<br />
public comment period nor have they approved the sale.</p>
<p>While InsideVandy may wish to frame this story as coming to a close,<br />
putting the controversy safely into the past, the simple truth is there<br />
is much more of this story to tell. There are indeed students, alumni,<br />
and members of the Vanderbilt Community who refuse to accept the patent<br />
falsehood that the frequency is gone. We hope InsideVandy will recognize<br />
this and follow-up accordingly.</p>
<p>Myka Carroll, Communications Director<br />
WRVU Friends &amp; Family</p>
<p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
<p>Hi</p>
<p>I did receive the letter (both times), but regret to inform you that we elected not to publish it. As the automated response explains, we receive a high volume of email and generally only respond to inform individuals that we will be printing their submissions. I apologize for the confusion and thank you for your time.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Opinions@InsideVandy</p>
<p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
<p>While it is difficult to explain the lack of print that letters concerning WRVU have received in campus since the beginning of this academic year, we urge you to keep them coming.  Also, letters to the Nashville Scene, the Tennessean, the NY Times, whathave you.</p>
<p>This battle for the frequency is NOT OVER &amp; everyone deserves the truth.</p>
<p>The VSC Administration is heavy-handed &amp; everyone knows.  It is absurd, perhaps, to think they would let any information concerning the fragile state of their proposed frequency sale leak into their publications.</p>
<p>While there are times we may disagree with the choices made by the InsideVandy / Hustler editors, there are other times we commend them for the willingness to take a stand on important issues.</p>
<p>This, for instance, was a fantastic article&#8230;</p>
<p>WRVU Opinion: Searching for Dialogue<br />
By Matt Scarano<br />
<a href="http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/16874" target="_blank">http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/16874</a></p>
<p>**********************************************************************</p>
<p>IT’S NOT OVER YET NASHVILLE . . .</p>
<p>Learn more about our battle to regain the 91.1 FM frequency this Saturday @ SOUNDLAND.<br />
WRVU Friends &amp; Family reps will be @ the Neuhoff Factory Party Stage from 1 &#8211; 9 PM.</p>
<p>We will have FREE STICKERS &amp; plenty of information!  Hope to see you there!!!</p>
<p>¡¡¡VIVAWRVU!!!<br />
<a href="http://www.vivawrvu.org/" target="_blank">http://www.vivawrvu.org/</a>
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					<p>Listening to Diane Rehm on <em>NPR</em> yesterday, we noticed she had on a guest from one of the corporate-funded think tanks, as she usually does, telling us Social Security is going broke. He didn&#8217;t mention that the government has actually borrowed from Social Security for decades in order to finance corporate welfare, and nobody on the program pointed out that he was lying through his teeth. That is what the &#8220;senior fellows,&#8221; from the major think tanks are expected to say in return for the corporate funding.  Corporations don&#8217;t throw money away — these contributions are considered to be investments.</p>
<p>All of the <em>NPR/PBS</em> programs that deal in &#8220;news&#8221; analysis can be expected to invite these guests, and you will hear them announced daily, &#8220;X,&#8221; a senior fellow from the American Enterprise Institute, Hoover Institution, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, etc., appearing on Morning Edition, The PBS NewsHour, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, etc. Their goal is always to sell out the public interest. Their tentacles are deep into the so-called &#8220;news media,&#8221; all of the major TV and radio networks, newspapers, news magazines — the entire mass media spectrum.</p>
<p>Often their views are said to be on the programs for &#8220;balance,&#8221; as though any truth that gets out must be balanced by lies. They constantly scheme to privatize more of the government, to rid the public of Social Security, Medicare and other social programs, and introduce lies with which to combat science, including &#8220;we must burn oil and coal, there is no such thing as global warming,&#8221; combined with &#8220;we must spend more on weapons for the military,&#8221; and &#8220;we must cut corporate taxes to spur the economy.&#8221; There is no hole in the mass media, these lies are scattered over the entire electronic and print corporate-viewpoint media empire.</p>
<p>Pam Martens, in this <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/12/the-koch-whisperers/">piece</a>, goes deeper into it, following the tentacles of the Koch brothers who&#8217;ve devoted their lives to destroying any semblance of democracy in the land and extending the plutocratic oligarchy.  Until citizens understand they are controlled by their mass media, nothing will change, which is why we do <em>LUV News</em>  —Jack</p>
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					<p>The site NPR Check (link on right) keeps an eye on the right-wing tendencies of public radio, no more so than in this critique in the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27644679&amp;postID=2148569179665775291">comments</a> of a recent piece aired there:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919" rel="nofollow">GRUMPY DEMO</a> said&#8230;</p>
<p>Just when you thought NPR couldn&#8217;t sink any lower:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/21/139823639/new-policy-gives-hope-to-some-facing-deportation" rel="nofollow">New Policy Gives Hope To Some Facing Deportation : NPR</a>: New Policy Gives Hope To Some Facing Deportation<br />
by SARAH GONZALEZ</p>
<p>NPR continues normalizing Right Wing Fringe Extremism:</p>
<p>NPR quotes &#8220;Kristen Williamson with the Federation for American Immigration Reform&#8221; opposed to Obama&#8217;s change in immigration.</p>
<p>Really NPR? Really? The Federation for American Immigration Reform? An organization that has been identified group described as a &#8220;hate group&#8221; by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC):</p>
<p>http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/federation-for-american-immigration-reform-fair</p>
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&#8220;FAIR’s founder, John Tanton, has expressed his wish that America remain a majority-white population: a goal to be achieved, presumably, by limiting the number of nonwhites who enter the country. One of the group’s main goals is upending the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended a decades-long, racist quota system that limited immigration mostly to northern Europeans. FAIR President Dan Stein has called the Act a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">&#8220;As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?&#8221;<br />
— FAIR founder and board member John Tanton, Oct. 10, 1986</p>
<p>What&#8217;s worse <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/search/index.php?searchinput=%22Federation+for+American+Immigration+Reform%22+&amp;sort=date&amp;tabId=hoa" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Federation for American Immigration Reform&#8221; : NPR Search (BETA)</a>: Quoted this organization several times.&#8221;</p>
<p>What&#8217;s next? NPR to interview the Klan on civil rights?</p></blockquote>
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