Last week I posted a couple idle thoughts about the #Sacbee editorial board and the apparent influence of some younger board members on their political endorsements. Dueling editorials in the city council District 4 race spell out this dynamic pretty explicitly.

I think the younger board members make a much more compelling case for Katie Valenzuela's re-election than the wishy-washy 'we're too divided' pitch that the oldsters (aka people my age) make for Phil Pluckebaum.

The 'official' endorsement highlights one of the problems with our elections, and the thinking that each district just needs to elect a bland well-monied 'centrist' who can pull everyone together. They can not. I think we actually need a bigger more diverse council that better represents the competing ideas and visions that we all have for the city.

#sacramento

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/election-endorsements/article285305012.html

Reading about the website that I will forever refer to as Twitter removing headlines from linked articles, and that seems bad and very dumb.

But also a lot of the time #Mastodon also does not show preview images or headlines when I share news articles. Especially from my local newspaper #sacbee. Why do previews show up for links from some sites but not others?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/05/twitter-x-news-headlines-removed/

Interesting in the wake of the Capital Public Radio financial train wreck to see the #sacbee and #Sacramento State discover that students don't benefit from the KXJZ license or participate in the station in any meaningful way.

Here's a story I did... 20 years ago (?!) about just that very thing.

https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content/radio-control/29527/

Much has changed since then. That was before CapRadio launched "Insight" and lots of other good stuff. But much is the same, especially the building of expensive new buildings and leaving students out of the picture.

My suggestion? There's a new #LPFM window opening next month.

https://www.prometheusradio.org/new-lpfm-stations-application-window-november

CSUS/CapRadio should try for a license for KSSU and also do a "KSSU on CapRadio" show. Also bring back Hey Listen, KZAP (on CapRadio) and Blues Party. And stop building new buildings and mismanaging funds, obvs.

Further reading, "10 Reasons Why college radio stations should apply for LPFM licenses."

https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2013/09/10-reasons-why-college-radio-stations-should-apply-for-lpfm-licenses/

#LPFM #collegeradio #publicradio #capradio #npr

So many upsetting details in this #sacbee story. What the fuck are we doing here? What is the point of supporting our "local" #Sacramento #publicradio station (chain) if you're just going to gut it and make it a super expensive podcast player?

"Brunner and Newhouse were told that the station was trying to reduce the number of 'live voices' on air."

"In an email to The Bee, Karlo said that the board and management were 'guided by audience data in these decisions.'"

"Karlo started at CapRadio eight days before the layoffs, summoned by his friend Luke Wood, the new president of Sacramento State."

"In March, the Sacramento Business Journal reported that CapRadio was tapping into operating reserve funds in order to pay for loans taken out for the construction of its new downtown headquarters....The station also tapped into employees’ health care funds, cutting coverage of premiums."

#radio #capradio #communityradio

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article279025979.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article279025979.html

A good substantive piece on #Sacramento efforts to build more active transportation infrastructure and reduce VMT. Good job #sacbee !
#bikes #walking #activetransportation #climate

https://www.sacbee.com/news/environment/article278500889.html

I'm a little stunned that the #SacBee ran the AP story about Ted Kaczynski's death rather than its own reporting, and that the headline was so far down on the landing page. I was driving home from work when I heard the news of his mail bomb to the California Forest Association, and immediately feared for friends and family who worked in the Capitol Mall area in Midtown. Maybe the editor is from out of town?

#Sacramento #unabomber #localnews #journalism

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article276290471.html