
This is a conversation from the divine podcast, Rumble Strip. It features Jay Allison about the recent attack on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Recently, Congress passed a rescission bill that eliminates $9 billion in previously allocated funding, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which effectively defunds public media, which includes NPR, PBS and member stations around the country. This is a conversation about what that means and what we stand to lose.
Jay Allison has been working in and around public radio since it’s beginnings a half century ago. He's been an independent public radio producer, journalist, and teacher since the 1970s. He is the founder of Transom, where I learned to make radio, and 25 years ago he founded WCAI, a public radio station in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Jay's work has won most of the major broadcasting awards, including six Peabodys. He produces The Moth Radio Hour and was the curator of This I Believe on NPR.
Links
Adopt a Station: Where you can donate to your local public radio station or find stations to support
Transom: The place where good radio begins
Information on Transom story trainings
Recent New York Times interview with Bill Siemering about the fate of public radio
Rumble Strip episode w Jay called Fishing with Jay
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Aug 27
27 min

Dr. Chioke I'Anson is the visionary force behind the establishment of the VPM + ICA Community Media Center, an innovative collaboration between Virginia Public Media and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. He's also the founder of RESONATE Podcast Festival
Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding. Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a station.
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Aug 20
14 min

Alice Bagley is a farmer, biker and time banker based in Detroit. She was last on the show. Don't miss her episode from 5 years ago on the joyus virtues of throwing seeds!
Courtney Daniels is a filmamker and author based in LA. Her new podcast is called Gen X at Midlife, where she talks to people about their experience of life after 50. Subscribe wherever you listen to TBAS! She was last on the show discussing the importance of a good cry.
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Aug 13
8 min

Teresa Gretsen and Naomi Kreitman are friends based in Amsterdam who love to swim.
READ THIS COLD WATER SWIMMING GUIDE
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Aug 6
8 min

You can be like Dorothy seeing color for the first time in The Wizard of Oz!
Jul 30
9 min

It will free up more time to meditate on the nature of the universe.
Jul 23
6 min

Animals have a radical honesty with themselves. We can too.
Jul 16
8 min

On how to stop rejecting yourself!
Jun 25
6 min
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