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All JFK'd and Veterans Day'd out

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Banacek

Okay, the amount of coverage that public radio devoted to JFK's 50th death anniversary yesterday was ridiculous in that nothing "new" was said.

Fresh Air had a political pundit on who was clearly reverential towards JFK instead of a younger pundit who viewed JFK through the lens of his womanizing and other vices.

If you wanted to hear about the 85-year old being held hostage in North Korea or JPMorgan's $13 billion dollar settlement on Morning Edition, The Takeaway, or All Things Considered, good luck.

The Veterans Day coverage was worse: 5000 people lay dead or dying in The Phillipines and public radio, outside of BBC World Service and The World, was completely oblivious.
 
Banacek said:
Okay, the amount of coverage that public radio devoted to JFK's 50th death anniversary yesterday was ridiculous in that nothing "new" was said.

Fresh Air had a political pundit on who was clearly reverential towards JFK instead of a younger pundit who viewed JFK through the lens of his womanizing and other vices.

If you wanted to hear about the 85-year old being held hostage in North Korea or JPMorgan's $13 billion dollar settlement on Morning Edition, The Takeaway, or All Things Considered, good luck.

The Veterans Day coverage was worse: 5000 people lay dead or dying in The Phillipines and public radio, outside of BBC World Service and The World, was completely oblivious.
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Well Theres the NPR & PBS Ombudsmen you can contact them about your issues and let them review the content. I know on BBC News they did extensive reports on Typhoon Yolanda showing the US Army, UK Army and the Red Cross digging bodies out of the damage. Also Philippine Government Corruption and Climate Change relationship.

Wow on the PBS Newshour and other Public Radio shows I heard of Jim Lehrer, Robert Macneil struggles with the JFK assassination and eliminate the conspiracies that surrounded key players of JFK's Death, Jack Ruby, Secret Service, FBI, Dallas Police and Lee Harvey Oswald.
 
On Veterans' Day, Morning Edition had a report from Manilla, the Philippines -- a phone call between Linda Werthiemer and Lynnette Lim of Save the Children.
On Tuesday, Werthiemer again had a phone interview, this time with Marine Gen. Paul Kennedy.
On Wednesday, Jakarta correspondent Anthony Kuhn, located in the hard-hit city of Takloban, was interviewed by Steve Inskeep.
On Thursday, Jason Beaubien reported from Manilla on the US Military's airlift operation out of Takloban in hour 1, and in hour 2 an additional report from Anthony Kuhn in Takloban.
On Friday, there were 3 stories from the Philippines.

There was additional coverage each day in "All Things Considered", including 24 minutes on Veterans' Day. But please, tell me more about how 28 minutes of coverage the day after the disaster is "completely oblivious."

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Also, yesterday:

Jim Zaroli reported on the JPMorganChase settlement in Hr 1, Segment B of "All Things Considered". In hour 2 there was another report from the Philippines.
The North Korea story was reported on the NPR hourlys, but from what I can see was not in "ATC" or Weekend Edition today.
 
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The great thing about anniversaries and holidays is you can plan for them. You can't plan a plane crash. It happens, and you cover it. Hopefully, you get the story right. But the 50th anniversary of a presidential assassination gives everyone a chance to reflect and try to learn from the past, rather than go from disaster to disaster the way we normally do. I found myself watching the History Channel yesterday.
 
On Science Friday they debunked some of the conspiracy theories around the JFK assassination. The guest used the phrase "The Conspiracy Industry" which I had not heard before but which makes perfect sense.
 
Wow, what the heck was up with Smiley and West on Sunday night? An entire segment devoted to JFK's impact on the hispanic community.

Talk about pulling a topic out of your heinie when you can't come up with anything else to talk about, JFK had little dealings with the Latino community, who were still heavily marginilized in 1964 compared to the black community.

And this should have aired on last Sunday's show, not two days after the anniversary. That's like when a TV show airs a Christmas themed episode after December 25th.
 
The Veterans Day one is the one that really gets to me. The executives for NPR, WGBH, PRI, etc. should have put their foot down and told Diane Rehm, Marco Worman, the Here and Now team, The Takeaway team, etc. and told them and their producers "I don't care if you are on vacation. We've got thousands dead in The Phillipines. We're pulling your taped show where you interview veterans and military experts and you're going live. Get to the nearest recording studio with an ISDN hookup NOW!!!!!!!!"

Even Fresh Air could have contributed. Terry Gross has done several interviews with people from The Phillipines dicussing various topics in the islands, and in 1991 she did an interview with techno-thriller novelist Dale Brown in which he promoted his book Sky Masters and discussed the years he spent stationed in Manila as a bomber co-pilot. All of those old interviews could have been broadcast with Terry or Dave Davies explaining that they were taking a special look back at The Phillipines and given the phone number for Typhoon relief charities so that viewers could make donations.

Instead all of these shows aired pre-recorded shows with veterans and military experts discussing the current state of the military and "what it means to serve."
 
Banacek said:
The Veterans Day one is the one that really gets to me. The executives for NPR, WGBH, PRI, etc. should have put their foot down and told Diane Rehm, Marco Worman, the Here and Now team, The Takeaway team, etc. and told them and their producers "I don't care if you are on vacation. We've got thousands dead in The Phillipines. We're pulling your taped show where you interview veterans and military experts and you're going live. Get to the nearest recording studio with an ISDN hookup NOW!!!!!!!!"

Even Fresh Air could have contributed. Terry Gross has done several interviews with people from The Phillipines dicussing various topics in the islands, and in 1991 she did an interview with techno-thriller novelist Dale Brown in which he promoted his book Sky Masters and discussed the years he spent stationed in Manila as a bomber co-pilot. All of those old interviews could have been broadcast with Terry or Dave Davies explaining that they were taking a special look back at The Phillipines and given the phone number for Typhoon relief charities so that viewers could make donations.

Instead all of these shows aired pre-recorded shows with veterans and military experts discussing the current state of the military and "what it means to serve."
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Well The PBS Newshour (Some NPR Affiliates Simulcast this like KQED-FM) did put the Typhoon Yolanda, Climate Change and US and UK response as the top story during Veterans Day with the JP Morgan Issue and Vets with issues.
 
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