Wes Nisker

Wes "Scoop" Nisker (December 22, 1942 – July 31, 2023) was an American author, radio commentator, comedian, and Buddhist meditation instructor. He was a fixture on the San Francisco free-form radio station KSAN in the late 1960s and 1970s, and later was heard regularly on KFOG. He was well known for the catchphrase, "If you don't like the news ... go out and make some of your own," which he also used as the title for a 1994 book.

Nisker's radio features could be unconventional, like this traffic report: "People are driving to work to earn the money to pay for the cars they're driving to work in. Back to you." He and his books were covered in various publications of record. He was the founder and co-editor of the international Theravada Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind and was one of the regular teachers at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, California.

Nisker was Jewish and his father was a Polish Jewish immigrant.

Nisker died on July 31, 2023, from complications of Lewy body dementia.