| While listening to Bill Maher on itunes episode #82 from 9/18/06, Gloria Steinam mentioned that she and Jane Fonda has created a radio network, which is accessible on the net. Kewl Beans. I've not listened to it yet, but I have high hopes that it is going to be a fresh voice. It's called Greenstone Radio
"It seems to me that commercial radio has become less about community and more about conflict. Less about information and more about repetition. Less about improving ourselves and more about being angry at the world." - Gloria Steinem, July 2006
Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, and a high powered group of women decided to offer an alternative by founding GreenStone Media. It's the only national radio network owned by women, and it's designed to offer what is missing in talk today -- radio that is thought-provoking, emotionally involving, believable and trustworthy. Radio that talks with you, not at you. GreenStone's talk radio network debuted in July, 2006. We began streaming a series of entertaining, informative shows nationally, and we are adding AM and FM affiliates across the country. We're broadcasting from studios in New York and Los Angeles. Our mission is simple: meet the unserved need for innovative, topical, relevant and entertaining programming of particular interest to women. Gloria tells of Mary Margaret McBride who, in the 1940's, was a journalist hired only on the condition that she pretend to be a folksy grandmother reading recipes on the air. That lasted all of two weeks. Then she told her live audience, "Look, I am not a grandma, nor a mother, nor am I married. Why don't I just be myself?" The listeners loved her. Our goal is to create an environment where our hosts--and callers--can be their authentic selves, where everybody is welcome. More laughing, less shouting. More light, less heat. Insightful and intelligent talk.
I'll check it out, and let you know what I think later.
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