- Have you seen: Premiere Radio Cancels Dreamland?
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- [The following quoted verbatim from the announcement
from Unknown Country, with paragraph format added. My comments are below,
after the announcement.]
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- The bad news is that Whitley Strieber's Dreamland will
no longer be carried by Premiere Radio Network. The good news is that Whitley's
going to keep on keeping on with a NEW Dreamland Online. The last scheduled
broadcast program will air on December 28, 2002.
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- Dreamland was carried on 240 stations nationwide, and
was among the most popular Saturday night programs in talk radio. Whitley
Strieber's NEW online Dreamland will air weekly on Unknowncountry.com,
where it will become available for online listening each Saturday at 3PM
Pacific Time.
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- This means that both Art Bell and Whitley Strieber will
leave broadcast at the same time, and the Art Bell website will shut down.
Unknowncountry.com will continue unchanged-in fact, it's going to experience
continuous growth and enhancement.
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- Expect great new things from both Unknowncountry.com
and Dreamland! Whitley has no intention of quitting, especially not now,
when so many important voices are going silent, and so much is happening
all around us that requires the attention of those of us who seek hidden
knowledge and enlightenment.
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- Linda Moulton Howe will continue her popular and outstanding
science reports on Dreamland, and a new and closer relationship will exist
between her website, Earthfiles.com and Unknowncountry. [End.]
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- Comments:
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- The timing of this is indeed curious. Like Jeff Rense
(but unlike Art, who seems to have deliberately shied away from such overt
speculation), Whitely was not loathe to openly call for a radical, sociopolitical
analysis of what contact with the "Visitors" might mean for our
present form of government. Following the many lines of evidence presented
by his guests, the inescapable conclusion is that "our" present
government is both profoundly dishonest with its citizens and (as must
logically follow) completely dysfunctional in so far as it reflects the
original republican intent of our Founding Fathers.
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- Now, on the very eve of the enactment of GWB's frightening
"Homeland Security" package, that voice is about to be silenced,
at least on the radio. With the effective absence of both Art and Whitley
from the mainstream broadcast scene, the true national debate about the
Visitors and the bizarre machinations of the National Security State --
and, indeed, the vital discussion about the very nature of what actually
constitutes the "reality" of our temporal world -- has been seriously
curtailed.
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- Fortunately, we still have Jeff Rense on the air [for
how long?], but the sudden silencing of these voices, right at the time
that the mainstream media seems to be less and less inclined to question
the "official version" of events does not bode well for our county.
Even now, as we are told to prepare for a "heightened alert"
for more terrorist acts, we seem to be moving toward a single journalistic
"Party Line" that would exclude any of the sort of honest political
analysis that Strieber has been calling for. Indeed, absent Strieber AND
Rense on the national broadcast scene, we would have something approaching
the Orwellian nightmare of a totally complicit and comprised media in this
country.
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- Recalling the earlier marginalization of Chuck Harder
and his Populist radio forum at the hands of the Clinton Administration,
the elimination of any remaining contrarian voices from the airwaves would
seem to be the next logical move of the Bush Administration. Premiere obviously
wants to "play ball" with the powers that be, so it is not too
surprising that they would pair the elimination of Dreamland with Art's
retirement. [Dreamland, under Whitley Strieber, continued to grow and improve
as an articulate and intelligent vehicle for exploring "difficult"
and unpopular topics. Absent my posited political motives for its demise,
Premier's action in quashing the program is so shortsighted, inexplicable,
and profoundly, mind-bogglingly stupid that I cannot believe that there
is another reason!] Reminiscent of the time that "one by one, the
lights [went] out in Europe," I fear that we are headed for a very
dark time in this country, as one by one, the dissident voices on radio
are silenced. May God help us.
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- Milt
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