Pirate Radio Station in San Francisco
I believe in responsible media. I spend a good portion of my week fighting for media accountability. I humbly attempt to create factual, amenable media myself, every week. When newspapers and magazines quote white nationalists, I publicly argue that they should be cited that they are white nationalists. When radio stations and news channels give a microphone to bigots who transmit racist propaganda, (that in turn generates violent hate crime) the public should hold those stations accountable. But responsible media doesn’t have to mean bound, or censored communication with the public. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. The amount of genuine alternatives to pre-produced, syndicated corporate radio and TV stations is multiplying rapidly, in the blogosphere and beyond.
One great example is Pirate Cat Radio. It is the most well known currently operating pirate station in the US, and has been operating (from multiple locations since 1998). Currently, they broadcast from a tiny coffee shop in San Francisco, on a cozy corner in the Mission (a neighborhood that is relatively ethnically and economically diverse, with a population that is half Latino, a third White, and 11 percent Asian). Pirate Cat describes itself as “an unlicensed low powered community radio station, broadcasting on 87.9 megahertz, to both the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles basin”.
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