Category Archives: Media Reform

From The Terrorism Alert Desk

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Trish Nelson

Reprinted with permission from the Summer 2017 issue of  The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter,  funded entirely by reader subscription,  and available only in hard copy for $12/yr.  Send check to PP, Box 1945, Iowa City 52244. Sorry, we … Continue reading →

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Right Wing Radio Host Michael Savage Wants Government Takeover Of Media

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Trish Nelson

Related: Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” Mediamatters.org Right-wing radio host Michael Savage called for a government takeover of media following a shooting at a baseball practice of Republican members of Congress.  [Note from BFIA: Savage is broadcast 2 hours a … Continue reading →

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The Iowa Right Wing Cult Machine

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Trish Nelson

The right wing propaganda/cult machine is driving Iowa politics.  Find your local station in the list below.  These Iowa stations broadcast multiple hours every day of right wing propaganda over the publicly owned airwaves.  Call/write your local station. Tell them … Continue reading →

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Fox, Right Wing Media Not Reporting Trump-Russia Investigation

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Trish Nelson

How can people continue to support Trump, you ask?  Here’s how.  Watch the entire 12 minute 44 sec. video.  It goes all the way back to the Powell Memo of 1971.  

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Why MSNBC Is Moving To The Right

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Trish Nelson

There are reports that Lawrence O’Donnell will soon go the way of Keith Olbermann, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Ed Schultz.

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How The Sinclair Deal Affects Iowa

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Trish Nelson

http://iowahighwayends.net/blog/ The Iowahighwayends blog has no share widgets and does not offer an RSS feed.  There is no affiliated Facebook page.  If you want to follow, you just have to go the website. We appreciate Jeff Morrison’s reporting on the … Continue reading →

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Tell The FCC: Block The Sinclair Deal

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from CREDO A conservative media empire that reportedly cut a shady 2016 deal with the Trump campaign is poised to grow even larger – giving it the power to distort news coverage in markets all across the country.1 … Continue reading →

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Say No To Trump TV

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from FreePress Donald Trump’s favorite local-TV chain is about to get a lot bigger thanks to … Donald Trump! Trump’s FCC is paving the way for Sinclair Broadcast Group — already the nation’s largest TV conglomerate — to … Continue reading →

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Right Wing Media And The Power Of Fear

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Trish Nelson

[UPDATE: September 24, 2023. Not much has changed in the Iowa talk radio landscape since 2017.  At initial glance/review of stations it’s possibly worse. Limbaugh is gone but is still on the air in “best ofs.”  There are many new … Continue reading →

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Dan Rather Trying To Bring Back Journalism And #ToppleTrump

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Trish Nelson

learnprogress.org Respected news icon Dan Rather launched a Facebook page to counter the lies and “alternative facts” from Donald Trump. As with so many of us, he had enough of the garbage from Trump and the news media. The Facebook … Continue reading →

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