Offering asides, recommended links, blogworthy quotations, and more, In Brief is the Northwest Progressive Institute's microblog of world, national, and local politics.
“Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination,” The Washington Post reports.
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“Emails and records show UW and KUOW officials worked to keep details secret about the Seattle public radio station’s intentions to buy its competitor KPLU until the day university regents approved the plan. PLU, meanwhile, insisted on not revealing that it initiated the deal,” The Seattle Times reports.
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The University’s assertion that it now cannot afford to allow KPLU to continue using a facility whose construction KPLU listeners and supporters funded is breathtakingly
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Why KPLU must be saved and KUOW reformed Local meteorologist Cliff Mass weighs in against KUOW’s proposed acquisition of fellow National Public Radio affiliate KPLU,
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Heads up, NPI supporters! Following his appearance on KIRO FM with Dave Ross this morning, Northwest Progressive Institute founder and Executive Director Andrew Villeneuve will
LaunchKUOW: A major public radio station stumbles University of Washington meteorologist Cliff Mass explains what’s wrong with KUOW, Seattle’s most listened-to radio station, which has
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