This week marks KDVS’s annual pledge drive. The station needs the support of the public to keep things going another year.

We hope that our listeners will vote us their financial support required to keep operating. And it is a vote. One of the most compelling sort. It shows you are willing to help with your hard-earned dollars.

The station and its unique programming needs to raise about $75,000, which is less than $1500 in contributions per week.

Our goal for OUR hour this Thursday is to cover one week of broadcasting.

IF we can raise $1,000 we’ll get a matching bonus of $500.

It won’t be easy, but if you will help, dear listener, we CAN do it!

The media operates by the golden rule i.e. “he who has the gold makes the rules”. As we’t learned this week the Pentagon has spent fortune to place “experts” onto TV and radio to spin the harsh facts of Iraq into something the military industry finds more to its liking.

BTW if you have not yet done so you should go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.htm?hp

…right after reading this.

The original is 11 pages long – roughly 7 times the length of the excerpt in the Sunday Bee.

Radio Parallax has identified this “spin” since 2002 as the ramp-up to war began. And we have continued to provide information that is reality-based via interview with the likes of Robert Parry, Michael Parenti, Peter Dale Scott, John Dean, Joe Wilson, Daniel Schorr.

Our fellow public affairs hosts have brought you Amy Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon.

We once called the propaganda being fed to the American public as “psyops” – the kind of psychological operations that in the past had been used against the enemy in times of war.

We were right, of course, but it took David Barstow’s fine reporting at the New York Times to detail exactly how right.

We need you help to keep bringing you opinions NOT spoon-fed to the mainstream media.

Please call in Thursday between 5 and 6 to not only support the station but also to send a message that YOU want more of what we bring you weekly.

We want to continue to supply the guests and analysis in matters of the media, politics, science, technology, current events, miscellaneous social studies and topics that are amusing.

So PLEASE…. call 888 654-6294 and do what you can.

With your help we can raise $1,000 in 60 minutes.

Let’s do it!KDVS and Radio Parallax needs YOU!