TRUTH TO TELL Weds-KFAI 11AM: MEDIA REFORM & DEMOCRACY DAY

TRUTH TO TELL
KFAI FM 90.3 / 106.7 / Streaming at KFAI.org

WEDNESDAY, May 28 - 11AM: MEDIA REFORM A WEEK AWAY:
A Preview of June 5, 6, 7, 8

The Reformers are coming! They are many  and hungry to redress the steep
slide of mostly mainstream media into an abyss of cultural waste
infotainment, shallow journalism, ignorance of real issues, celebrity
worship and lockstep support for government folly  war, corporate power,
enriching the rich, and consolidating their own power! This has made
mincemeat of the medias responsibility to be Americas watchdog, not
Americas lapdog. First Amendment protections have been combined with untold
wealth and control over the flow of useful and important information
citizens need to govern ourselves.

Hundreds of trench workers in alternative and grassroots media will come
together with powerhouses in the field  Bill Moyers, Amy Goodman, Arianna
Huffington, Phil Donohue, Robert McChesney, Juan Gonzalez, Laura Flanders,
Tim Wu, Rosa Clemente, and FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan
Adelstein. We will be talking with all of them and more when TTT goes LIVE
from the Minneapolis Convention Center Friday, June 6th, and on tape the 7th
and 8th...PLUS...DEMOCRACY DAY - Thursday, June 5th - the day before  will
look at electoral reform and similar issues.

But, media reform begins at home and continues long after the conferences.
This weeks preview will talk about what steps local grassroots media types
plan to take to make our local media relevant to the Twin Cities and its
real people. CALL US: 612-341-0980

TTTs Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen will talk with planners and
reformers here and nationally to talk about the Media Reform and Democracy
Day events coming up  and the work we expect to do when everyone else
leaves town.

GUESTS:

 NANCY DOYLE BROWN  Twin Cities Media Alliance and organizer of a
post-conference Reform Action Group.

 BRANDON LACY CAMPOS  Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic
Revolution & Democracy Day organizer

 CRAIG AARON, Free Press Communications Director

OTHERS POSSIBLE:

 AMY GOODMAN, DemocracyNOW!

 ROBERT MCCHESNEY, Free Press Co-Founder

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May 21: POLITICS AND THE JUDICIARY: How Should We Pick Our Judges?

A recent Supreme Court ruling opened the door to a practice previously
prohibited by Minnesotas Canon of Judicial Ethics. Judicial candidates may
no longer be prevented from expressing opinions on issues that may come
before the bench, perhaps in the process revealing a bias in favor of one
side or another well before the facts are in and a ruling issued. Many legal
types see this as turning the entire judicial branch of government into an
expensive, nasty politically driven court system. Others insist that
traditional elections open debate to reveal bias and make the judiciary more
accountable. Former GOVERNOR AL QUIE is spearheading a drive to create a
state Constitutional amendment advocates believe addresses both impartiality
and electoral accountability  retention elections. TTTs Andy Driscoll and
Lynnell Mickelsen talk with Governor Quie and others about the pluses and
minuses of a system that would place only previously incumbent judges before
voters, but not directly elect newcomers.

GUESTS:  FORMER GOVERNOR AL QUIE, Board Chair, Minnesotans for Impartial
Courts;  STATE SEN. ANN REST, Chief Author, Retention Elections bill;
MARK CHRONISTER, President, Minnesotans for Impartial Courts; PETER
NICKITAS, Attorney and member, National Lawyers Guild
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