Between Lost in the Stacks on WREK and Radical Reference on @wrfg.bsky.social Atlanta has 2 Friday radio shows hosted by librarians.

WRFG playing some of Bernie Sanders' audio bio of Eugene Debs.

A brief Debs in Atlanta🧵for May Day Eugene V. Debs was an American socialist, labor leader, and 4-time candidate for President whose last campaign in 1920 came while he was incarcerated in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. DDebs made several appearances in Atlanta even before his extended stay.

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“I also miss something of that thrill of knowing that we were bringing into people's lives something that they may not have heard of, that they didn't know about, but could transform their lives. But you've taken that on now....” Lois Reitzes guest hosting. #atl www.podbean.com/ew/pb-a36uy-...

Days after its CEO attended the Trump-WHCA dinner NPR is promoting Public Media Giving Days this weekend "as we face our first year without federal funding."

Watched several of the Atlanta Press Club debates held at Georgia Public Broadcasting yesterday and today incl. for Gov. and Lt. Gov. None of the candidates or panelists mentioned funding for public media or the ending of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. #gapol www.youtube.com/@AtlantaPres...

Spotted in the Krog Tunel. Fred Krog was a member of the Brotherhood of RR Engineers. He was injured in a wreck due to lax safety regs.

NPR's CEO attending this year's WHCA dinner.

Wrote this in 2023 when Congresswoman Nikema Williams was the AJC's guest at the White House Corresp. Dinner. I remember thinking the Biden admin and press' "return to norms and traditions" was premature. And a lot weren't great even before Trump. #gapol brianpbannon.medium.com/two-chairs-t...

CBS World News Roundup, the longest running network radio newscast that's set to end in May, has been running ads for Suzy Weiss' Free Press pop culture podcast Second Thought. Suzy is Bari's sister.

ATL Arts Collective, the new podcast from former WABE arts producer Kim Drobes and ArtsATL has debuted. It’s similar in format to City Lights Collective w/ several arts related audio stories and Drobes interviewing the co-host, who will rotate, about their ongoing work. www.atlartscollective.com

Since the AJC ended print editions, the Athens Banner-Herald has been on sale at the Publix on Ponce de Leon Ave. I’m not sure how extensive the Athens paper’s distribution in Atlanta is, but as part of Gannett which also owns USA Today I imagine getting it into stores wouldn’t be that complicated.

Here's the debut episode of the ATL Arts Collective podcast, a successor to WABE's cancelled arts radio show. #atl Episode webpage: www.atlartscollective.com/e/%e2%9c%a6-...

“Leadership spent five months planning a live benefit event, the 1st of its kind in WABE’s 78-year history. It didn’t promote it to the public, focusing instead on selling tickets through relationships with major donors.” Loss of fed. funding can either make pub media... www.ajc.com/business/202...

Dayton is where Cox began and, like Atlanta, has long dominated local media. WYSO is part of the Ohio Newsroom. There isn't an equivalent Georgia newsroom. I suspect because "preserving the AJC" took precedence. The Ohio Newsroom | WYSO www.wyso.org/the-ohio-new...

The e-paper version of the article pictures the incumbents, the born-digital version pictures the socialist challengers.

This AJC column on socialist candidates quotes "GOP strategist" Stephen Lawson. Lawson is a Denton’s lobbyist who works with GA Republicans like House Speaker Burns. He also was appointed to Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Board last year by Gov. Kemp. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

On the one hand this is another blow to the rule of law and a symbol of a two-tiered justice system. OTOH, my old Park Atlanta tickets have all somehow been expunged.

The 770 Lager tips over the tiny car. #atl

Your periodic reminder that this is the same guy who Meet the Press and Wolf Blitzer kept bringing on to preach civility in politics.

Spotted in the Krog. Pink for Easter. #atl

"Andrew Morse, the president and publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, worked alongside Lack when Morse led Bloomberg Television.... "The two have had conversations about striking a partnership between the AJC and Deep South Today." I have some concerns... www.ajc.com/business/202...

Jason Esteves was the only candidate for Gov. I saw at the 404 Day parade. It's a new parade, only its 2nd, but Keishia Lance Bottoms was the previous Mayor. #atl #gapol

Caged Henry Grady.

Mayor Dickens led the parade.

Caged Phoenix. Caged Coke. #404day #atl

Stations of La Crosse.

I'll be part of the panel discussing All About the Money tonight after its Atlanta debut at the Anne Cox Chambers wing of the High.

Former Georgia Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, who left office in late 2012 to take a $150,000 a year job at state-run Georgia Public Broadcasting, has a new gig as CEO of Americans for Fair Treatment, an anti-public sector union advocacy group. #gapol brianpbannon.medium.com/mr-rogers-ne...

Delivering nine days of prayer.

The Right of Spring: what innocent youth will be sacrificed for Matt Schlapp.

Inflatable objects at No Kings Atlanta. www.instagram.com/reel/DWd_h4_...

A group advocating for a General Strike in the South on May 1st made signs attached to Home Depot paint stirrers. #atl

The Corey Tower during the No Kings Atlanta protest. #atl

"All your dreams are Just Ceilings that haven't been smashed yet. Be the byline of your own headline." Ceiling projection at the AJC's Headline House pop-up event space last December.

What a difference a year makes. MTG's DOGE subcommittee called public media wasteful and biased, all of GA's Republican members of Congress voted to defund the CPB, and MTG flirted with running for Gov. on a DOGE for GA platform. Now cutting public media is absent as a state issue. #gapol #atl

One year ago tomorrow MTG held her Anti-American Airwaves hearing ahead of the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This year Georgia Republicans are quite happy with public media, so long as it sticks to football. #gapol brianpbannon.medium.com/from-anti-am...

The Georgia State Senate released their version of the FY27 budget this morning. It makes no changes to the Gov.'s recommended Georgia Public Broadcasting's state appropriations. The Senate made a large cut GPB's state funding in 2023 forcing negotiations with the House. #gapol

NYTs hires ex-Wash Post staffer Amy Gardner "part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2022, contr. her scoop that Pres Trump had telephoned the GA sect. of state and urged him to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat. #gapol www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-...

The court-appointed receiver in the SEC case against Edwin Brant Frost IV and First Liberty Building & Loan, LLC, has released a detailed accounting of the firm’s financial history. $155.7 million from investors, but only about $89.4 million was paid back. #gapol cases.stretto.com/public/x461/...

Listening to @wfmu WFMU and they just played a song called "Cop City" #atl

The Revolution will be delayed due to street repaving.

Since I subscribe to some radio newsletters, got this ad from the Right-wing Salem Radio networks advertising its news headlines to stations currently carrying CBS News.

CBS began as a radio network. It's entire broadcast day for D-Day is available on archive.org archive.org/details/CBD4...

Axios is owned by Cox Enterprises. bsky.app/profile/sobs...

Fables of the Reconstruction: Henry Grady Slept Here

Spotted at QuikTrip. Also on one of the Chimera-like roller foods.

Hollywood Reporter has a write-up of a conversation director Sinead O’Shea had, on St. Patrick’s Day, at a Copenhagen documentary festival including about “All About the Money” her doc about Cox heir James "Fergie" Chambers. #atl www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Former City Lights Collective host Kim Drobes is launching a podcast with the website ArtsAtl called ATL Arts Collective starting April 15th. According to a press release it's set to include other City Lights contributors Jon Goode and Lois Reitzes. #Atlanta