A Critical Ear

You can listen to our latest show online here or here. Yesterday’s show included discussion of Carter’s visit to Palestine as well as an interview with Allison Hantschel about Douglas Feith (the focus of her book, Special Plans). Note that we’re now sharing our content on Audioport, radio.indymedia.org and from the WRFU site. If you’re interested in re-broadcasting the show you can grab it from any of these sources - though do let me know, so I know who’s depending on downloads from which sources, by what deadlines. At present I’m getting Audioport up by Thursday night, and try to get it onto either radio.indymedia.org or WRFU by Thursday too, with links added here, and the third audio source, by some time Friday.

A Critical Ear has been broadcasting steadily, and I’ve been putting copies up on Audioport (from where WETX-LP picks them up) but I’ve been having difficulty connecting to Radio4All, where I’d been hosting publicly-accessible copies, and so fallen behind in posting here about show editions. This coming week we have a special edition of the show, where regular co-host Bob Naiman will be temporarily replaced by my good friends Paul Riismandel and John Anderson, both of them astute observers of our media environment. We’ll talk about the FCC’s current consultation on LPFM radio among many other things. Should be a fun show. Meanwhile, those listening to the show locally may have noticed that WRFU has gained some new public affairs content in the late afternoon and early evening. We’re building out a public affairs strip on automation, which will run during those hours when we have no scheduled shows (or when scheduled shows don’t broadcast). It should give listeners a chance to listen again to popular local shows such as Media Geek (Paul’s show) and Media Matters, as well as bringing new shows, such as War News Radio, to the community. Let us know what you think. 

A Critical Ear is to be carried on WETX-LP, 105.3FM, community radio for the Tri-Cities area of east-Tennessee and Virginia, based in Johnson city. More info on day and time as we have it.

We welcome others interested in carrying the show, and just ask that you inform us so we can add links here on the site, and in our audio. Audio files are available from Audioport and Radio4All, and are linked from this website.

I’ve now uploaded yesterday’s show to Radio4All. Those of you with Audioport accounts can also find it there. The first half hour includes InterWorldRadio headlines, a commentary from Matt Rothschild of the Progressive, two feature pieces from InterWorldRadio, and some story headlines from EU Observer. The second half of the show involved discussion with Bob about Iran, starting with Diane Feinstein’s column calling for diplomacy with Iran. Bob also had a piece in the Huffington Post yesterday, analyzing Feinstein’s piece and its context. Direct link to mp3 of show, on Radio4All. (show length 58:02) 

A Critical Ear is now being distributed through Pacifica’s Audioport and also on Radio4All.net. From this week I’ll be adding links to the Radio4All file from this site, as well as a general pointer towards Audioport. A reminder, of course, that we welcome the rebroadcast of the show by others - we just ask that you let us know, so that we can promote that fact here.