Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 11-07-23

12 AM

Behind the News – Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer

Amjad Iraqi on what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and what the

Israeli state has in mind for Gaza • Georgi Derluguian (author of this article

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/opinion/nagorno-karabakh-russia-turkey.html) on how the

expulsion of Armenians from Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, is an

example of the latest iteration of the new world disorder and a world war III he

believes is already underway. (53 min)

1 AM

Project Censored

This week Mickey examines media coverage of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and the ensuing

Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, particularly the one-sided reporting of the Israel-Palestine conflict by

corporate media, and Big Tech actions to suppress Palestinian perspectives. Today’s guests discuss how

media bias and lack of historical context work to sway US public opinion, bolstering double standards on

human rights (“worthy vs. unworthy” victims in media standing) that actually help facilitate and excuse

ongoing Israeli war crimes.

Notes:

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, coordinator of its Campus Affiliates Program,

and a widely-published media analyst. He recently wrote, “Making Sense of the Establishment News

Media’s Distorted Coverage of Gaza.” Mnar Adley is founder and Editor-in-Chief of MintPress News,

which has seen their work on Palestine repeatedly censored, taken offline, deplatformed or

demonetized. Robin Andersen is Professor Emerita of Communications at Fordham University; she is

author/editor of numerous books on media and is a regular contributor to FAIR. Her most recent

Dispatch on Media and Politics for Project Censored- “How Big Media Facilitate Israeli War Crimes in

Gaza.”




2 – 3:30 AM

Old radio

Bold Venture was a syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morton Fine

and David Friedkin scripted the taped series for Bogart's Santana Productions.

https://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Bold_Venture.php

Salty seadog Slate Shannon (Bogart) owns a Cuban hotel sheltering an assortment of treasure

hunters, revolutionaries and other shady characters. With his sidekick and ward, the sultry Sailor Duval

(Bacall), tagging along, he encounters modern-day pirates and other tough situations while navigating

the waters around Havana. Aboard his boat, the Bold Venture, Slate and Sailor experience "adventure,

intrigue, mystery and romance in the sultry settings of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the

Caribbean."

Calypso singer King Moses (Jester Hairston) provided musical bridges by threading plot situations into

the lyrics of his songs. Music by David Rose. Beginning March 26, 1951, the Frederic W. Ziv Company

syndicated 78 episodes. Other sources claim that the 78 episodes include reruns, and that there were




only around 30 episodes. Heard on 423 stations, the 30-minute series earned $4000 weekly for Bogart

and Bacall. This episode: “Welcome Back to Civilization, Dead Man.”

The Blue Beetle had a relatively short career on the radio, between May and September of 1940.

Motion picture and radio actor Frank Lovejoy was the Blue Beetle for the first 13 episodes, while for the

rest of the shows, the voice was provided by a different, uncredited actor. The Blue Beetle was a young

police officer who saw the need for extra-ordinary crime fighting. He took the task on himself by secretly

donning a superhero costume to create fear in the criminals who were to learn to fear the Blue Beetle's

wrath. The 13-minute segments were usually only two-parters, so the stories were often more simple

than other popular programs, such as the Superman radio serial. This episode Whale of Pirates Folly.

The Blue Beetle was a Charlton Comics superhero, later bought up by DC Comics who revived various

of the characters. The Blue Beetle is being released as a feature film, part of the DC Expanded Universe,

with the Blue Beetle now being a Chicano superhero.

The Black Museum was a 1951 radio crime drama program produced by Harry Alan Towers for the

BBC and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard's Black Museum. Ira Marion was the

scriptwriter, and music for the series was composed and conducted by Sidney Torch.

Orson Welles was both host and narrator for stories of horror and mystery based on Scotland Yard's

collection of murder weapons and various ordinary objects once associated with historical true crime

cases. The show's opening began: This is Orson Welles, speaking from London. Sound of Big Ben chimes

The Black Museum... a repository of death. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which

houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects... a woman's shoe, a tiny

white box, a quilted robe... all are touched by murder. This episode “The Center Fire Bullet”.