Comments on: Bike picnic goes peacefully as planned

By: laura

laura — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:04:46 +0000

that’s awesome. i need to go donate blood again. thanks for mentioning it!

By: pdxcommuter

pdxcommuter — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:56:49 +0000

Earlier, in response to Jonathan’s “What should we do now?” blog entry, I wrote:

“Until the Red Cross dis-associates itself from 95.5, I will not be donating blood.”

Since the Red Cross pulled their ad from 95.5’s web page, I went over to the Red Cross and donated blood today. I also sent them a follow-up note thanking them for pulling the ad.

By: Tree

Tree — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:44:44 +0000

I nominate Jasun for next year’s Alice B. Toeclips award. yeah!

By: lianagan

lianagan — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:57:50 +0000

Weber Shandwick is the PR firm handling the advertising for Milk, one of 95.5’s national advertisers listed on Jasun’s site. Here is their contact info:

http://www.webershandwick.com/contacts/index.cfm

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:06:25 +0000

Ok here is the skinny…I doubt that 95.5 kept the tape…well, chances are they have it. If it was posted on iTunes even for a few minutes I’m sure someone got it. Might try searching the bit torrents out there and seeing if it pops up anywhere. Anyway the FCC says that they aren’t really required to keep it unless it is a personal attack or political editorial. They define personal attack with some ambiguity so take it as you will,

“Personal attacks occur when, during the presentation of views on a controversial issue of public importance, someone attacks the honesty, character, integrity, or like personal qualities of an identified person or group. No more than a week after a personal attack, the station must transmit the following three things to the person or group attacked: (1) notification of the date, time, and identification of the broadcast; (2) a tape, script or accurate summary of the attack; and (3) an offer of a reasonable opportunity to respond on the air.”

The FCC also makes a statement about Free Speach and the “Clear and Present Danger” statute.

“”Clear and Present Danger.” The Constitution protects advocacy of using force or of violating the law. However, the Supreme Court has said that the government may curtail speech if it is both: (1) intended to incite or produce dangerous activity; and (2) likely to succeed in achieving that result. Even where this “clear and present danger” test is met, we believe that any review that might lead to a curtailment of speech should be performed by the appropriate criminal law enforcement authorities, and not by the FCC.”

So in other words for this to go much further a lawyer may be needed.

By: C3PNo

C3PNo — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:27:53 +0000

Yikes! Y’d think that, with that many car commercials, they might be downright pressured to make other transportation options seem inferior…oh, wait…

I feel a FCC mandated PSA coming on…

By: organic brian

organic brian — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:31:09 +0000

Talking w/ Tim McNamara last week by phone strengthened my resolve to have the station punished. He was a complete jerk, focused on woe-is-me-I’m-being-hassled and not really concerned about the endangerment of cyclists, and he was still carrying on with the “statments out of context” and about them being oriented to scofflaw cyclists. He made excuses about why there is no show archive available that sounded totally implausible to me, and yes I am saying I think he’s a liar. Doesn’t every radio station keep archives of its shows, as a matter of policy? Somebody who works in radio please respond.

I had heard that at the park Tim was hollering about the cost to the city of cleaning the sidewalk chalk. As soon as I stopped busting up with laughter, I called and left a message for him that sidewalk chalk cleans up with rain, and it’s pretty unlikely the city will be spending one minute dealing with it.

SPONSORS LIST: here is a list, contact info coming soon.

FRIDAY 7/21: Subway (sandwiches), Home Depot, Volkswagen, Car Toys, ITT Tech, Bob Lanphere’s Beaverton Honda / Kia / Infinity, PGE, The Shane Company, Chevy trucks, Toyota trucks.

MONDAY 7/24: Beaverton Nissan (if I heard correctly), newcarloan.com, Hyundai, Summit Research Network, accounttempts.com, uworkudrive.com, joehascredit.com

Mind you, I didn’t listen to the entire 5-hour shows… a couple hours is all I can stomach of that hideously unfunny drivel.

By: Jasun Wurster

Jasun Wurster — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:25:58 +0000

Oh Yea,

I have a sponsor page up and going. It is located at:

http://web.pdx.edu/~jasun/haters/sponsors.html

If you find that some of the info is incorrect or get better contact info please email:

radio_help [at] pnxcorp.com

Also Organic Brian sent me a list of Sponsors from listening to the show for the past few days. I commend him on being able to do that! If you see any sponsors that I have missed please email them to me as well.

One last thing, the Indymedia post I placed about the picnic results got me in contact with a member of the a member of the National Lawyers Guild and a board member of the NWCRC (NorthWest Constitutional Rights Center) to try to apply more legal pressure on the station to let us and the FCC hear the show.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:13:35 +0000

I congratulate Jason and the folks who went up there to ‘look the devil in the eye.’
We definately need to keep pressure on Tim and the station. I’ve encouraged The Red Cross to remove their financial support and I’m looking for Les Schwab’s corporate contact to thank them for doing so.
Let’s keep it up!

By: Dr. Mark Ross

Dr. Mark Ross — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:11:07 +0000

good work Jasun!