[Peace-discuss] Randall's WILL commentary

[Linda Evans]

Exactly.  I am going to write a positive response to
your commentary to WILL.  I've never heard them do
anything similar with other commentaries.

Linda
--- Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Linda Evans" <veganlinda at yahoo.com>
> To: "Peace Discuss"
> <peace-discuss at lists.groogroo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:19 PM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Randall's WILL commentary
> 
> 
> : Randall,
> :
> : I thought your commentary was great, but I did
> notice
> : a difference in what they said prior and after
> your
> : commentary.  They seemed a little apologetic.
> 
> Yeah, both the intro and outro were notable.
> 
> I recorded the whole thing - here's a transcript of
> the intro:
> 
> -------- begin ----------
> In general, we consider our locally-produced call-in
> talk programs to be our
> vehicles for listeners to participate
> in dialog about important issues of the day. From
> time to time, though, we
> hear from someone for whom those programs might not
> provide an appropriate
> venue. Randall Cotton recently submitted some of his
> thoughts about the
> United States military action in Iraq.
> --------- end -----------
> 
> I'm not sure why they introduced it this way. Why
> not just say "here's a
> guest commentary submitted by Randall Cotton".
> What's with the cryptic
> "appropriate venue" wordage? It's so nebulous that
> it could indeed be
> interpreted as apologetic - sort of like "well this
> guy has been kind of a
> problem for us, but we had to give him some airtime
> so he could vent his
> views since our call-in talk programs aren't an
> 'appropriate venue'. Sorry
> about this." That's an extreme interpretation, but
> still valid, I think.
> 
> and here's the outro:
> -------- begin ----------
> WILL AM-580 will consider replies addressed to 300
> N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
> 61801 or e-mailed to willamfm at uiuc.edu
> --------- end -----------
> 
> Continuing with the extreme interpretation, this
> sounds a bit like "Please
> send us rebuttals to this guy's rant".
> 
> I wonder what they intend to do with any "replies"
> they receive? And what
> kind of replies could they expect to get? It seems
> to me that this is only
> likely to elicit some sort of pro-war commentary, it
> seems to me. Perhaps
> that's the idea.
> 
> I'm mulling over how to proceed.
> 
> R
> 
> 
>   They
> : said something about most listeners find the local
> : talk portion of AM580 sufficient to voice their
> views,
> : but implied that the following person didn't find
> : their views expressed on AM580.  Also, at the end
> of
> : the commentary they usually say something like 'We
> : encourage listeners like you to get involved.  If
> you
> : would like to be a guest commentator on AM580 call
> : xxx-xxxx.'  They did not say this after Randall's
> : commentary.  What she did say was if you would
> like to
> : comment on this commentary please write to (gave
> the
> : address).
> :
> : Keep the commentaries coming.  :-)
> :
> : Linda
> :


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