On the January 31, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, I started out the show with a call by Public Citizen to break up Bank of America.  I spoke with Public Citizens Congress Watch Director David Arkush about their petition to the Federal Reserve and the Financial Stability Oversight Committee.

In the second half of the show, Timothy Karr, Director of Strategy with Free Press talks about Citizens Inundated, the report he wrote about how citizens are being inundated with political ads in the wake of Citizens United v FEC.

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The December 13, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody features investigative journalist Greg Palast talking about his new book, Vultures' Picnic - In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores. 

After that, we'll here part of a speech given in Kansas City on  December 11 by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly.

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The impetus for the Occupation of Wall Street has many sources, many, including NPR, The Nation, The Washington Post and some of the participants themselves credit a July blog post by Adbusters for the idea of Occupy Wall Street.  Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn appeared on the very first edition of Tell Somebody in October, 2005, and we dug into the archives and served it up on the October 25, 2011, edition of the show.

Also on this show, Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman visits the Occupy KC encampment.

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On the September 6, 2011 editon of Tell Somebody, Sierra Club Water Sentinels director Scott Dye talks about the new cleanup plan for the Bannister Federal Complex that avoids putting it on the Superfund National Priorities List.

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Kansas City, Missouri politicians who defend city taxpayer support of a new nuclear weapons parts plant owned by a city agency cite the retention of jobs as major justification.  Kansas City Peace Planters commissioned a report by Dr. Teresa D. Nelson and Dr. Lloyd J. Dumas to examine the jobs issue related to production of nuclear weapons parts in comparision to alternative uses of such a facility.

Teresa D. Nelson is an independent researcher and consultant with a Ph.D in Public Policy and Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. Lloyd J. Dumas is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas.

On the August 9, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from co-author Dr. Lloyd Dumas about the report, Maximizing Job Creation: An Analysis of Alternatives for the Transformation of the Kansas City Plant.

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Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative reporter with a track record for making sense of complex and little understood matters. He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and Esquire. He has also served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. Baker received a 2005 Deadline Club award for his exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record. He is the founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news site whowhatwhy.com.

On the July 26, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we talked to Baker about his book, Family of Secrets - The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, about whowhatwhy.com, and about the state of journalism today.

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"How would this country be different if there was community radio in every one of our towns." Brandy Doyle - Policy Director with the Prometheus Radio Project.

The July 20, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody featured a conversation about The Prometheus Radio Project.  With a successful decision in Prometheus v FCC, passage of LPFM legislation and numerous 'barn-raisings' of new community radio stations, when Jim Hightower says "people who say it can't be done should get out of the way of the people who are doing it" he could well be talking about The Prometheus Radio Project.

Listen to Brandy Doyle talk about all of that, plus Prometheus upcoming appearance at The Grass Roots Radio Conference in Kansas City.

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In April, three members of Friends of Community Media (FCM), a Kansas City 501c3 media reform group,  went to Boston, MA to attend the 2011 National Conference on Media Reform.

In May, the Kansas City Greens asked us to share our experience of the conference at a forum. FCM Chair Tom Crane, and FCM board members Doug Greer and Tom Klammer gave their impressions of the Boston NCMR at the Aquarius Bookstore in Kansas City on the evening of May 16.  This discussion was aired on the 90.1 FM KKFI forum show at noon on Tuesday June 21, 2011

As Professor Robert McChesney put it:

“ I think at this point the idea that American journalism is in a deep, profound and existential crisis is almost passe. I think what is less well understood is that such a collapse of journalism is also a crisis for democracy. Self government cannot work without an informed citizenry, and that can’t work without journalism.”

What is the journalism situation in the U.S.?  How does our 'free' press compare with those in other countries?  What are some possible solutions?

The May 24, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody features the remarks of host Tell Somebody as presented to The Community of Reason in Kansas City Missouri on Easter Sunday 2011.

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The February 1, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody featured a conversation about media reform with board members of Friends of Community Media, a Kansas City area 501c3 media reform group.

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