[Occupymendocino] Fw: Frack free Public Radio

[Liz Helenchild]

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| NPR is airing pro-fracking ads on our public radio stations and reducing their environmental reporting team by 80%. Click here to tell them this is not acceptable.

Liz,

When NPR started airing pro-fracking messages, I was annoyed. But now that they've also announced plans to close down virtually all their environmental coverage — leaving just one part time reporter to cover fracking, the climate crisis, and more —now I'm frankly alarmed.

If you agree that public radio needs to reject money from the fossil fuel industry, and spend more time covering fracking and the climate crisis, click here.



NPR has always said that we shouldn't worry about the fracking ads, because they won't impact news coverage. But last month, they announced plans to dramatically reduce their staff covering the environment and climate change.* 

All this week, dozens of protesters have been sitting in, speaking out and even getting arrested over at the offices of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which is just a few blocks from NPR's office. But they couldn't spare a reporter even one day this week to cover the fact that FERC rubber stamping fracking projects that destroy towns, and being met with hundreds of protesters everywhere they go.**

We need to tell NPR that this is not acceptable. We need to show them that radio covering the fracking boom and the climate crisis is engaging, smart, and essential. And we need to ask the local affiliates from New York to Sacramento and everywhere in between, to join us in sending that message.

Will you help? Click here to get connected to our NPR live action page. Enter your phone number and pick a region, and we'll connect you to your local NPR station so you can ask them to help us send a message.

Then, tune in with me at 3:45 Eastern / 12:45 Pacific for a live hour of Internet-radio, right from NPR's doorstep. I'll interview participants from this week's actions in D.C., and fracking impacted communities around the U.S. It will be a fun, engaging hour of radio that shows what coverage of fracking and climate change can, and should, sound like.

It all starts when you click here, and make your call to a local NPR station.

Thanks for tuning in to the planet, and tuning out pollution,

Drew Hudson and the team at Environmental Action

* Joe Romm, NPR Guts Its Environment And Climate Reporting Team, Becomes ‘Part Of The Problem’, Think Progress, October 24, 2014 
** Hannah Northey, More activists arrested as climate demonstration continues at FERC, Energy and Environment News Greenwire, November 4, 2014 |
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