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WDEL only Wilmington radio station providing State of the Union

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MikefromDelaware

WDEL, continuing with their mission to be Wilmington's ONLY news/info station as they were the only Wilmington radio station providing the State of the Union address via CBS radio. WILM was on the bird with their usual evening talk fare. Good work WDEL.

I scanned both the AM/FM dial and noticed that in Philly, WHYY-FM was the only radio station there providing the State of the Union address via NPR.
 
Since it should have been a paid broadcast, I am not surprised that most stations had the good sense to not carry it. The Obama re-election team should have been forced to pay for the time. It was not a "State of the Union" address. It was the "State of My Re-Election" speech.
 
That was also the case when Bush Jr. was up for re-election too. Of course whoever the standing Prez is will put the best spin on the state of the nation as they'll honestly believe they have done a great job. Nothing new there, both sides do it. The response afterward too from the loyal opposition party, is the other party essentially bashing what they just heard from the current Prez whom they hope to unseat in the next election. Both sides do it, so it equals out. I appreciate radio stations like WDEL and WHYY-FM airing those speeches. It gives the radio audience, who may not be near a TV, the opportunity to hear both sides directly with no media filter. That's not a bad thing. The more the populous gets to hear directly from the candidates rather than having a media type tell us what they said, the better off we all are. What I'd like to see is, after their speeches a non-partisan Fact Checker coming on and telling us what whoppers each side just said. THAT might "encourage" the two sides to make more of an effort to not exaggerate or out and out lie.
 
That's correct, Mike from Delaware. If you want your station to become the news station of record in a given market, you air these addresses as often as you reasonably can. (Sometimes sports schedules can get in the way!). The partisanship evens out over time.

Most people - even those interested - aren't going to hear it on the radio; they'll go to TV. But the station's promotion re-enforces that if you're caught in a car or elsewhere, and you care about this stuff, you can get it on the radio or via the station's audio streaming.

Nice impulse to try to correct falsehoods immediately afterwards - and some folks on TV try to do so - but honestly, it often takes time to fully sort through things. And it doesn't help these days that each side often has its own "facts", backed by partisan think-tanks and talking heads.

And even with the benefit of time, a fact-checking website may have to revise its judgment.

The Pulitzer-Prize-winning, fact-checking website at The St. PETERSBURG TIMES -- Politifact -- just today had to revise its judgment...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/jan/25/tuning-truth-o-meter/
 
What I wish WDEL would, as the TV networks won't seem to do, but it would be great to have podcasts of the entire debates, and State of Union, etc, for those who may not be home, or in their car and want to hear it later. For those of us who are not high tech with Tebo whatever that is. Even though WDEL doesn't air the debates, even the CBS one, is there any way they could get permission to have the podcast available at their website.
 
I am a fan of podcasts for often I cannot hear a broadcast live. I make use of them frequently. But I wonder how expensive they are for the stations?
 
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