{"id":5352,"date":"2011-07-29T23:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T04:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2011-08-24T00:28:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T05:28:45","slug":"fpac-tv-to-run-democracy-now-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/07\/29\/general-interest\/fpac-tv-to-run-democracy-now-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FPAC-TV to Run \"Democracy Now!\" News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5363\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fpac-tv-democracy-now.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5363\" title=\"FPAC-TV to begin airing Democracy Now! news\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fpac-tv-democracy-now.jpg\" alt=\"FPAC-TV to begin airing Democracy Now! news\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FPAC-TV to begin telecasting &quot;Democracy Now!&quot; news weekday mornings starting August 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - In a press release, Bill McColgan, <em>(Executive Director of Framingham Public Access)<\/em>,<em><\/em> announced <em>FPAC-TV<\/em> will begin carrying the daily, independent, award-winning news program, \"<strong>Democracy Now!<\/strong>\"<\/p>\n<p>According to McColgan, FPAC-TV received a <em>\"very large number of requests\"<\/em> from Framingham residents to have the show broadcast on the town's public access station.<\/p>\n<p>The show is scheduled to air weekdays <em>(Monday through Friday)<\/em> at 8:00 a.m. beginning the first week of August.<\/p>\n<p>The program, which offers <em>\"a perspective not seen in U.S.corporate-sponsored [news] media\"<\/em> is hosted by<!--more--> journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a sample <strong>Democracy Now!<\/strong> episode of \"<strong>National and Global News Headlines<\/strong>\" originally broadcast on Friday, July 29th, 2011. The\u00a0 station also hosts and broadcasts debates, special reports and other news programming.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 540px; margin: 10px auto; border: 4px solid #683091; background-color: #8dafdc; padding: 10px; text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Democracy Now!  National and Global News Headlines for Friday, July 29, 2011\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOrduSXxT3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>National and Global News Headlines for Friday, July 29, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the <strong>Democracy Now!<\/strong> website, <em>(<a title=\"Democracy Now! - independent news\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.democracynow.org<\/a>)<\/em>, the program \"<em>is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations.\"\u00a0 <\/em>The website emphasizes,<em> \"We do not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting, or government funding. This allows us to maintain our independence.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Democracy Now! <\/strong>is aired on over 900 t.v. and radio stations, and is also available online via <em>podcasts<\/em>, via their<a title=\"Democracy Now - YouTube Channel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/democracynow\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong><\/strong><\/em> YouTube Channel<\/a>, <a title=\"Democracy Now! on Vimeo\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/democracynow\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo Channel<\/a>, and other over-the-air and digital media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>In Framingham, <strong>Democracy Now!<\/strong>, <em>(and other FPAC-TV programming)<\/em>, can be viewed on public access channels\u00a0 Comcast 9, RCN 3, and Verizon 43.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more info about Framingham Public Access, contact: FPAC-TV, P.O. Box 2884 Framingham, MA 01703, by phone at: (508) 875-5434, Fax: (508)-875-1846, or email <a href=\"mailto:info@fpac.tv\">info@fpac.tv<\/a> or on their website at: <a title=\"FPAC-TV - Framingham Public Access TV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fpac-tv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.fpac-tv.org<\/a>\u00a0-- FPAC-TV's studio is located at the Fuller Middle School, 31 Flagg Drive, Framingham, MA 01702, (use rear entrance of school if visiting studio).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; In a press release, Bill McColgan, (Executive Director of Framingham Public Access), announced FPAC-TV will begin carrying the daily, independent, award-winning news program, &#8220;Democracy Now!&#8221; According to McColgan, FPAC-TV received a &#8220;very large number of requests&#8221; from Framingham residents to have the show broadcast on the town&#8217;s public access station. The show is scheduled&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/07\/29\/general-interest\/fpac-tv-to-run-democracy-now-news\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":5364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[2480,1174,884,2479,318,2044,2481,317,882,881],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-amy-goodman","tag-bill-mccolgan","tag-comcast","tag-democracy-now","tag-fpac-tv","tag-fuller-middle-school","tag-juan-gonzalez","tag-public-access","tag-rcn","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}