[Peace-discuss] NPR and WILL

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think Al's point is well-taken. Perhaps we should begin by
writing to WILL in AWARE's name and pointing out how
obsequious NPR has been. We could suggest that -- just in the
interest of "balancing" the propaganda and the business shows
-- WILL should carry Democracy Now! at least.  They could also
easily (and cheaply) do more locally-produced news and public
affairs, as well as debate and discussion programs. Why, for
example, was the ACLU presentation at the Urbana library not
broadcast on WILL?  We could propose a regular AWARE forum on
the air... --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:23:30 -0500
>From: Alfred Kagan <akagan at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] NPR and WILL  
>To: peace-discuss at chambana.net
>
>This morning I listened to the morning news on WILL AM from 6
to 7 am.  
>There was no mention whatsoever of John Conyors hearing on
the Downing 
>Street Memo yesterday.  This is obviously explosive news, 30
members of 
>Congress attended, and 122 or so members of Congress have
signed a 
>letter asking for an investigation. So how is it that there
is no 
>mention on "our" public radio station?  Obviously, the people
at NPR 
>have been intimidated, but I think it goes beyond that. 
Their news has 
>been going downhill for years.
>
>So I have a dilemma, and I would like to initiate some
discussion.  Of 
>course, I support the concept of public media, but I can't
support what 
>is going on at NPR in Washington.  I strongly support what
Kim and 
>others have accomplished at WILL with local programming.  How
can we 
>support public media and local programming but not the kind of 
>programming we currently get from NPR and PBS?...