[Peace-discuss] Randall's WILL commentary

[Randall Cotton]

Sure, that's easy enough. I'll plan on it.
R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alfred Kagan" <akagan at uiuc.edu>
To: "Randall Cotton" <recotton at earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Randall's WILL commentary


: Randall, what about playing it at our meeting on Sunday for those who
: missed it?  We could also talk about responses to the set-up.
:
: >----- 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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