[rfu-automation] Re: PSA on the Sustainability fee referendum

[Mike Lehman]

Noel,
This is pretty much what I was thinking.
Mike Lehman

Noel L. Vivar wrote:
> Well, we can make a compromise: not put it on automation and just put 
> an index card in the PSA box. That way it can still be read if the dj 
> so chooses, but it would not be an "automatic" reading that perhaps 
> the whole station would not be behind...
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> Mike Lehman wrote:
>> I guess I'm still a little uncomfortable, even after rereading the 
>> text of the PSA. It does seem to indicate a position on the question, 
>> even if it's not an explicit call for action.
>>
>> My bigger discomfort is the fact that putting something into 
>> automation means the whole station takes responsibility for it. If 
>> someone just wants to get the message out on their own show, then 
>> they take responsibility for it -- and I'd have no problem with it. 
>> This seems like an important distinction to me. Even if it's not 
>> actual legally a problem, the politics of seeming to take a position 
>> as the station on any electoral issue seems problematic to me, a can 
>> of worms that I'd just as soon stay out of.
>>
>> Given it's just text, do we actually even have a way to produce this? 
>> I assume that most things that get sent as text PSA's don't get on 
>> the air? Or does someone print them up and take them into the studio? 
>> I assume that they aren't produced into sound files for the 
>> automation system anyway?
>> Mike Lehman
>>
>> Barbara kessel wrote:
>>> What I remember from the original training I got from John Anderson is
>>> that you can offer people information as long as you don't say
>>> anything that is telling people what to do, such as "Go and vote for
>>> the $5 Sustainability fee." The text of the PSA seems to pass this
>>> test.
>>> Also I believe that a referenda is different than a campaign for an
>>> individual, in which the rule is that you can ask them to be on the
>>> radio but they cannot ask you. If they do that, you have to offer all
>>> the candidates equal time. Barbara Kessel
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