more on NPR Censors Katrina Report?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins () gmail com>
Date: September 20, 2005 12:33:40 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Interesting People <i-p () umich edu>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on NPR Censors Katrina Report?
Reply-To: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins () gmail com>


Dave,

I think this episode shows how I-P can not only bring news to the
fore, but also quash rumors.  Rob likely experienced robotic, or human
error.

The local NPR station in East Lansing operates mostly robotically on
weekends.  I'm not sure if that's true for other NPR stations.

Sometimes the robot does strange things:

-- Dead air

-- Switches too soon to other programs

-- Wrong programming, or sudden program switches to old content

-- And, my favorite: occasionally it plays two programs at once.

My guess is that my old friend Rob encountered a situation where the
local NPR robot, or a human, switched to the wrong programming.

Shows like "This American Life" are pre-produced and delivered to
local stations for broadcast.   NPR does not have the staff to censor
local broadcasts.  If it were to be censored, that would happen before
or during the national feed to local stations.  And plenty of folks
testify they heard the whole piece.   As did I.

This may not be Ben Franklin's America, but this is also not the USSR.

/rich

On 9/20/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall () gmail com>
> Date: September 19, 2005 4:53:33 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: Rob Raisch <info () raisch com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] NPR Censors Katrina Report?
> Reply-To: joehall () pobox com
>
>
> The segment that you want to hear is from the NPR program "This
> American Life"... I believe you can still hear the program from their
> website... I mentioned this in an earlier post to IP. -Joe
>
> <http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ 
> 200509/msg00225.html>
>
> On 9/19/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
>
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: Rob Raisch <info () raisch com>
> > Date: September 19, 2005 4:30:53 PM EDT
> > To: dave () farber net
> > Subject: NPR Censors Katrina Report?
> >
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > For IP if appropriate.
> >
> > A week or so ago, IP forwarded a personal memoir by two paramedics
> > who were lied to and treated horribly by New Orleans police and
> > ultimately were denied egress from the city at the point of a gun.
> >
> > While driving home yesterday, I chanced upon an interview with
> > several Katrina survivors on our local NPR station during their
> > regular Sunday afternoon feature.  The second person interviewed was
> > one of these paramedics, and just as she was getting into the really
> > awful events she experienced, NPR cut the feed for that story, and
> > replaced it with one from several months ago regarding poverty in
> > Latin America.  After about ten minutes of this new "replacement", I
> > turned of my radio.
> >
> > An email inquiry to my local NPR station has so far gone unanswered.
> >
> > /rr
> >
> > --
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> >
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