Progressive Voices

o, Trump isn't a great "dealmaker" - he's a grifter like his greed-centered party.

.... plus Scott Pruitt's corruption...

We discuss this and more.

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It’s easy to freak out about what’s on local news. But what about what’s left out?

The last spasm of scandal hit money media this week, when a brilliantly edited video of lots of local tv anchors speaking in unison hit social media.

As we’ve reported here before, local stations owned and operated by central monopolies are often required to air nationally-created content. As their budgets are small and their options are few, they do as they’re told. And so it was with the anchors on dozens of stations owned by the conservative Sinclair Broadcasting Group last month, when their corporate parent required them to read from a script apparently sent down from head office. Ironically, the script was all about news and trust.

Off-kilter 04-08-2018 by Progressive Voices

We’ll get a follow-up on the March for our Lives against gun violence with student activist Will Salzman.

Also, a new report from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding titled, Equal Treatment?: Measuring the legal and media responses to ideologically motivated violence in the United States. I’ll talk with Institute fellows Kumar Rao and Carey Shenkman.

And the latest installment in the God’s Not Dead film series failed to draw the kind of audience earlier chapters did. On Vox.com, Alissa Wilkinson writes that The Christian movie series God’s Not Dead fails to be Christian.

Rick Smith Show - Weekend by Progressive Voices

Richard Fowler Show 04-08-2018 by Progressive Voices

Nurse Talk 04-08-2018 by Progressive Voices

ARLIE HOCHSCHILD asks why residents of the nation's second poorest state vote for candidates who resist federal help? Why, when corporations devastate their land, do they most hate the government? After five years with folks in Southern Louisiana, Hochschild sensed that a "deep story" holds their political contradictions together.

She and I wrestle with the challenge: WHAT STORY CAN WE OFFER AMERICANS OF A FUTURE MORE INVITING THAN THE PAST?

On the #RADIO show this week we cover Trump’s dangerous move to increase the detention of pregnant women; the victory of ending the practice of shackling women in prison during labor and what more needs to be done; advancing #CounselorsNotCops in New York State; and how to speak to children and adults about the school shootings.

*Special guests include: Katharina Obser, Women’s Refugee Commission’s Migrant Rights and Justice, @Kat_Obser; Omisade Burney-Scott, SisterSong, @Osunsweetnsour and @SisterSong_WOC; Beatriz Beckford, MomsRising, @MomsRising and @BeatrizBeckford; Lina Acosta Sandaal, Stop Parenting Alone and parenting expert on Telemundo’s national morning show Un Nuevo Dia, @parentingrelief.

The NAB Conference begins in vegas, but has Tech usurped content? Media message? Also, The Trump Tower burns, and a man dies that didn't want to live there. First Presidential Casualty? Listen daily at all streaming services, watch on Youtube.com/reallykarel and get the dedicated app.