David Barsamian is an Armenian-American radio broadcaster, writer and lecturer. He is the founder, director and host of Alternative Radio, an hour long weekly talk show based in Boulder, Colorado, which broadcasts over 200 radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia and several other countries. Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, corporate control, media, and propaganda. Barsamian has interviewed numerous notable figures including Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Lester Brown, Robert Fisk, Arundhati Roy, Joseph Stiglitz, Edward Said and George Galloway. Barsamian’s articles and interviews regularly appear in The Progressive, The Nation, and Z Magazine.
He is also the author of several books, including: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire; and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting; The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy; and louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine.
In 2007, Barsamian made a trip to Pakistan. He talked about the importance of independent media:
"Corporate media are largely weapons of mass distraction. Language is manipulated to manufacture consent and to limit the bounds of permissible thought (…) that's one reason I started Alternative Radio out of my house many years ago. You can't simply whine and complain. You need to come up with positive alternatives that give people hope."
Barsamian is a character worth reading about. He tells the truth as he sees it and asks brave questions that really make you wonder about political figures around the world.
I came across an interesting interview of Barsamian that shares his thoughts on media.
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