a look at the continued attempts at destroying widecast free speech corporate america style.
> The "headline news" on this morning's "encore" Democracy Now!,
WBAI 9am,
> 8/24/01, was unusual. First, a strange voice, with the lead
story on
> Condit, mentioning the 30 min. interview with Chung/ABC, with a
taped piece
> of Condit. It could have been any drive time radio news. What
struck me
> was the WBAI morning show hosts only a half hour earlier
talking about how
> WBAI would never stoop to the level of the Condit story etc.
>
> Anyway, there were more strange voices, and names of the
reporters for this
> "headline" news, like Judith Smelser and
> Jessie Brandon, names I did not recognize. it turns out they
are
> employees of Feature Story News where they are listed under
"Meet the
> Team". What was more interesting was that the "team" includes
names that
> have been heard on Pacifica Network News, including Nathan
King, Georgina
> Cooper (New York correspondents for FSN), Malcolm Brown,
Simon Marks and
> Catherine Drew (Washington) and Alistair Wanklyn (London), Paul
Miller (Paris).
>
> more on FSN at http://www.savepacifica.net/strike/fsn.html
>
> The web site for Feature Story news http://www.fsntv.com/ lists
clients,
> including:
> PACIFICA NETWORK NEWS - but not Democracy Now!
> Other clients include:
> ABC - note the plug for ABC yesterday and today on the "encore"
Democracy Now!
> BLOOMBERG
> FOX NEWS
> RADIO VATICAN
> SKY NEWS (Murdoch)
> Summit TV - South Africa's business channel www.summittv.co.za/
> Voice of America
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From their web site at www.fsntv.com :
"Feature Story News, the world's leading independent broadcast
agency,
offers a unique service in the news industry. We provide
ready-to-air
television and radio news material, tailored to individual on-air
styles,
and today more than 50 clients rely on FSN for their
international news
coverage. Every story we supply is different: produced and edited
to suit
your program's on-air style, delivered by your deadline, and
complete with
your sign-off."
Their list of clients is instructive. It includes such
progressive outlets
as Fox, Bloomberg, British Armed Forces, the Vatican, and the
Voice of America:
"ABC RADIO NEWS
ALLHERB.COM
AUDIBLE.COM
BBC NEWS
BLUE DANUBE RADIO
BRITISH FORCES BROADCASTING
SERVICE
BLOOMBERG NEWS RADIO
CHANNEL 4 NEWS
CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
FOX NEWS
GLOBAL TV NEWS
IRN
ITN
KTSA
LBC RADIO
MARKETPLACE
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
NBC/MUTUAL
NETWORK RADIO SERVICES
THE NEWSHOUR
WITH JIM LEHRER
NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT
PACIFICA NETWORK NEWS
PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL
RADIO DEUTSCHE WELLE
RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL
RADIO VATICAN
TV NEW ZEALAND
RADIO NEW ZEALAND
RELGION AND ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY
RTE IRELAND
SABC TELEVISION
SABC RADIO NEWS
SAFM RADIO
SRN
SKY NEWS
SUMMIT TV
VOA"