Press and politics. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Labor and the Washington Post / Betty Jane Lumpkin and Colgate Young ; interviewed by Carmen Delle-Donne.

On the media attack of government employee contracts at the Labor Department.

August 24, 2025

Investigative journalism and the first amendment / Daniel Schorr.

Former CBS newsman on his leaking of the Pike report.

August 24, 2025

Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel

Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel. Soviet news stories on world events. Phone-ins. pt.1. story on the escape of Assata Shakur, a Black woman poet, from a U.S. prison. — pt.2. stories about Iranian embassy takeover. — pt.3. phone-ins.

August 24, 2025

The Whole world is watching : mass media and the making and unmaking of the New Left / Todd Gitlin ; interviewed by Anita Frankel.

Author discusses his book about the effect of mass media on movements and politics.

August 24, 2025

How to cook a peacock : media coverage of Iran / Joan Vogel and Clare Spark.

Media coverage of Iran critiqued by Joan Vogel, graduate student in anthropology at UCLA, and “Sour Apple Tree” host Clare Spark. The two commentators condemn both American media coverage of Iran as well as the absence of a critique from the Left. Phone calls begin around 25 minutes into recording.

August 24, 2025

John Gerassi : an interview / by Ronald Radosh and Louis Menashe.

Gerassi discusses his evolution as a writer from TIME magazine to a revolutionary analyst.

August 24, 2025