The Washington Post reports that Pacifica Radio, the nonprofit organization that runs the nation’s oldest public-radio network, is in talks with the Al Jazeera Network to put the Persian Gulf-based news service on its five stations, including WPFW-FM in Washington.
According to the newspaper the negotiations, which have not been disclosed publicly, are already drawing criticism from within Pacifica. In an internal memo to the organization’s national board, Steve Brown, a former member of the board overseeing Pacifica-owned WBAI-FM in New York, advised Pacifica to consider “the blowback” from associating itself with Al Jazeera.
