[image: image.png] the role of non-profit radio
*As I speak to you today our nation is headed into the most significant and challenging presidential election cycle since the election of 1864 when the United States was still engulfed in the Civil War and the incumbent Abraham Lincoln faced former General George B. McClellan. * *What makes this even more of a precarious time is that this upcoming election is the first presidential race since the unprecedented January 6 violent attack on the U.S. Capitol when there was an attempt to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.* *To say the very rule of law is on the ballot this November is no hyperbole. * *Unlike the New York Times, which is a for-profit publicly traded corporation, I am a non-profit public radio broadcaster coming to you primarily over the airwaves which are owned by the American people and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission that came into being when FDR signed the Communications Act of 1934. * *As a non-profit public broadcaster, I can’t use these air waves to endorse candidates per se. My job is to create the space for the public to engage in the free flowing debate that the framers envisioned was essential to promote a participatory democracy. (note a free flowing debate does not I repeat does not require me to provide access to lies and hate and threats that chills a participatory democracy)* *Yes, I know that presenters on cable and the internet don’t have to be governed by any of this but I have to be. * Reaction to the editor of NY Times statement:defending democracy is not our job
Part One: Alec MacGillia ProPublica *Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers*
Part two: John Nichols The Nation Magazine
Opinion | Cautious, stage-managed campaigning won’t win it for Biden -Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> ‘ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,FCC, non-profit radio, NYTimes, democracy, partisan, Alec MacGillis, Propublica, vouchers, conservatives, rural republicans, public education, Texas, Gov Abbott,John Nichols, The Nation, debate, Wisconsin, campaign, Obama, Madison, stage-managed
*As I speak to you today our nation is headed into the most significant and challenging presidential election cycle since the election of 1864 when the United States was still engulfed in the Civil War and the incumbent Abraham Lincoln faced former General George B. McClellan. * *What makes this even more of a precarious time is that this upcoming election is the first presidential race since the unprecedented January 6 violent attack on the U.S. Capitol when there was an attempt to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.* *To say the very rule of law is on the ballot this November is no hyperbole. * *Unlike the New York Times, which is a for-profit publicly traded corporation, I am a non-profit public radio broadcaster coming to you primarily over the airwaves which are owned by the American people and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission that came into being when FDR signed the Communications Act of 1934. * *As a non-profit public broadcaster, I can’t use these air waves to endorse candidates per se. My job is to create the space for the public to engage in the free flowing debate that the framers envisioned was essential to promote a participatory democracy. (note a free flowing debate does not I repeat does not require me to provide access to lies and hate and threats that chills a participatory democracy)* *Yes, I know that presenters on cable and the internet don’t have to be governed by any of this but I have to be. * Reaction to the editor of NY Times statement:defending democracy is not our job
Part One: Alec MacGillia ProPublica *Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers*
Part two: John Nichols The Nation Magazine
Opinion | Cautious, stage-managed campaigning won’t win it for Biden -Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> ‘ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,FCC, non-profit radio, NYTimes, democracy, partisan, Alec MacGillis, Propublica, vouchers, conservatives, rural republicans, public education, Texas, Gov Abbott,John Nichols, The Nation, debate, Wisconsin, campaign, Obama, Madison, stage-managed
