“Thank you all for letting me into your morning commute,
for telling me your stories of hope, tragedy, triumph and love. Thank you for
letting me speak your truths through an omni-directional microphone. Thank you
for letting me take your photos and for calling me in the morning to let me
know it’s White-THORN not Whitehorn. I will forever hold KHSU in my heart and
memory as a place of acceptance, peace and home to the hardest working folks
I’ve ever met.
“What now, you may ask, will a local unemployed radio gal do in this crisis? I’ll survive. I always do.”
“What now, you may ask, will a local unemployed radio gal do in this crisis? I’ll survive. I always do.”
—Natalya Estrada, journalist and the last employee
to leave public radio KHSU, which was summarily shut down by Humboldt State
University on Thursday, in a statement to local media, “Last
employee leaves KHSU,” North Coast Journal, April 13, 2019.
• Backstory: In an inexplicable
and stunningly shortsighted and ham-fisted move, the Humboldt State University
administration sent University Police to close down the campus public radio
station on Thursday morning, and locked out its employees and volunteers, just days
after an on-air fund drive. On Sunday, with no one to run the NPR station, KHSU
was off the air for much of the day.
• More? See “‘It’s
a death in our community.’ Locals reeling after KHSU locks doors and streams
Chico radio station,” Red-Headed Blackbelt, April 11, 2019.
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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD
“I
don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If
you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
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