Saturday, June 18, 2005

Air America Weekend Schedule & "Official Had Aide Send Data to White House" (Stephen Labaton)

Here's the weekend schedule for Air America. Remember, if you don't live in one of the 64 areas where Air America Radio is broadcast over the airwaves and you don't have satellite radio, you can listen online by visiting their home page.


So What Else is News?
With host Marty Kaplan Saturdays 3pm-5pm - Rebroadcast: Sundays 8am -10am
Marty talks to Conyers' hearing witness Ray McGovern, Walter Mondale on the felonious side of Mark "Deep Throat" Felt, and LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik about the myth of social security. Plus, filmmaker Miranda July on her Sundance/Cannes hit "Me, You and Everyone We Know" and Dj Duo The Crystal Method on the future of ringtones.

Ring of Fire
With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Mike Papantonio Saturdays 5pm -7pm - Rebroadcast Sundays 3pm-5pm
Guests:
Eric Reeves, a leading Sudan analyst, about the violence in Darfur; Pete Peterson, author of "Running on Empty," which says the tax cuts and monstrous deficits are an immoral legacy for future generations; Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an organization that challenges human rights abuses within the U.S. criminal justice system; Katherine Eban, investigative reporter and author of "Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters are Contaminating our Drug Supply."

The Laura Flanders Show
Saturdays and Sunday 7pm-10pm
Saturday: Laura's frontline Downing Street Memo coverage continues with
Amb. Joe Wilson, who testified at the House Judiciary Committee Democrat's hearing and Rep. Maxine Waters(D-CA), who announced a new Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus, with 41 members. Also Ohio election lawyer and investigative reporter Bob Fitrakis delivers updates on the Judiciary Dems other top issue: election reform. And Laura revisits Alternet's "Start Making Sense," their post-election activism book, with co-editor Lakshmi Chaudhry and Adam Werbach, of the Common Assets.Sunday: Eve Ensler has a plan to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Then MacArthur Justice Center Attorney Joseph Margulies, will expand on his testimony before the on Gitmo's abuses. Then, a quick return visit with Shelby Knox, who is profiled in a PBS documentary about sex-education in Texas, called "The Education of Shelby Knox". And finally, Staceyann Chin on her new one-woman show, "Border/Clash - A Litany of Desires."

The Kyle Jason Show
Saturdays 10pm-Midnight

EcoTalk
with Betsy Rosenberg Sundays 7am-8am
In the first half Betsy talks to founder of the newly-formed Women's Global Green Network, Redwood Mary, and an additional Network leader, who is an environmental activist from El Salvador. In the second half Betsy switches gears and talks to Teddy Roosevelt (IV), great grandson of the most environmentally proactive Republican president in our nation’s history. Hear why this established financial executive, himself a lifelong Republican, is steamed about the Bush Administration’s bungling of the global warming crisis, and what he thinks "TR" would say to "W" if he were here today.



So What Else is News?
REBROADCAST
With host Marty Kaplan Sundays 8am -10am
Marty talks to Conyers' hearing witness Ray McGovern, Walter Mondale on the felonious side of Mark "Deep Throat" Felt, and LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik about the myth of social security. Plus, filmmaker Miranda July on her Sundance/Cannes hit "Me, You and Everyone We Know" and Dj Duo The Crystal Method on the future of ringtones.


New! Mother Jones Radio
Hosted by Angie Coiro Sundays 1pm-2pm
On June 19th, 2005 Air America launches "Mother Jones Radio," which will air every Sunday afternoon from 1:00-2:00pm EST. It is "a fun, fast, and substantive hour of reporting and commentary inspired by stories from
Mother Jones Magazine." The show will be hosted by award-winning journalist and radio host Angie Coiro. For the Sunday premiere, Mo Jo radio exposes junk scientists and pseudo-journalists who say global warming is a hoax-and who get millions of dollars from ExxonMobil. Guests:investigative journalist Ross Gelbspan, FDA whistleblower Dr. David Graham, and comedian Will Durst.

Politically Direct
with host David Bender Sundays 2pm - 3pm This week David Bender talks with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. Will this dark horse candidate ride out of the west in 2008? Don't miss this fascinating conversation with one of the rising stars of the Democratic Party!

Ring of Fire
REBROADCAST
With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Mike Papantonio Sundays 3pm-5pm
Guests:
Eric Reeves, a leading Sudan analyst, about the violence in Darfur; Pete Peterson, author of "Running on Empty," which says the tax cuts and monstrous deficits are an immoral legacy for future generations; Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an organization that challenges human rights abuses within the U.S. criminal justice system; Katherine Eban, investigative reporter and author of "Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters are Contaminating our Drug Supply."


The Laura Flanders Show
Saturdays and Sunday 7pm-10pm

Sunday: Eve Ensler has a plan to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Then MacArthur Justice Center Attorney Joseph Margulies, will expand on his testimony before the on Gitmo's abuses. Then, a quick return visit with Shelby Knox, who is profiled in a PBS documentary about sex-education in Texas, called "The Education of Shelby Knox". And finally, Staceyann Chin on her new one-woman show, "Border/Clash - A Litany of Desires."

The Revolution Starts...Now
hosted by Steve EarleSundays 10pm - 11pm
Amy Ray, one half of "The Indigo Girls," brings in punk rockin' setlist, including a song off of her new solo album.

On The Real
with Chuck D and Gia'na Garel Sundays 11pm -1am
Gia'na hosts author Bakari Kitwana ("Why White Kids Love Hip Hip") in The GreenRoom and more tastes of Chuck D's fire music collection to segue even hotter topics.


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But we're not done yet. Brenda e-mailed to note one article from the arts section of the Times.
I'd missed it, so thanks to Brenda for catching it. From Stephen Labaton's "Official Had Aide Send Data to White House:"

E-mail messages obtained by investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting show that its chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, extensively consulted a White House official shortly before she joined the corporation about creating an ombudsman's office to monitor the balance and objectivity of public television and radio programs.
Mr. Tomlinson said in an interview three months ago that he did not think he had instructed a subordinate to send material on the ombudsman project to Mary C. Andrews at her White House office in her final days as director of global communications, a political appointment.
But the e-mail messages show that a month before the interview, he directed Kathleen Cox, then president of the corporation, to send material to Ms. Andrews at her White House e-mail address. They show that Ms. Andrews worked on a variety of ombudsman issues before joining the corporation, while still on the White House payroll. And they show that the White House instructed the corporation on Ms. Andrews's job title in her new post.

[. . .]
The e-mail messages are part of the evidence being collected in a broad inquiry by the inspector general of the corporation into whether Mr. Tomlinson violated any rules that require that the corporation act as a buffer between politics and programming.
Investigators are examining the role played by the White House in the creation of the ombudsman's office at the corporation, an office Mr. Tomlinson said he advanced as part of a broader effort to ensure balance and objectivity in programming. Executives in public television and radio have said his actions threatened their editorial independence.