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Your Comments Archive: Comments prior to 1/1/08
January 3, 2008 7:40 PM
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January 9, 2008 10:21 AM
January 11, 2008 11:47 AM
January 11, 2008 3:03 PM Dick Dowling Oswegatchie said...NCPR folks, thanks for adding the World Cafe to your nightly schedule. I appreciate the chance to hear this eclectic brand of music, something that no other outlet in NNY offers. David Dye's interviews and insight add a lot to the program. WC with DD was a regular feature on a public radio station in Pittsburgh where I previously lived, and having it here is like making contact with an old friend. thanks. Also appreciate String Fever, Mountain Stage and most of Ira Glass' efforts Sunday at noon. January 13, 2008 9:50 AM
It an outrage that Morning Edition with feign seriousness and advocacy for the "three" Candidates said the South Carolina debate sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and CNN was a, "Contentious debate". How can we be down to three candidates when the numbers are all over the place and the primary has just started? Could NCPR make up for this NPR censorship/omission with local news and quotes from the campaigns of: Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, and Ron Paul? This local effort is within your control and power. Please make the effort and inform your listeners who are starved for responsible media reporting of this "primary". Were counting and depending on YOU. Sincerely, January 22, 2008 6:08 PM
January 31, 2008 12:21 AM
The concerted exclusion of his campaign in both news coverage and the Nevada/Georgia debates was not reported. NBC rescinded Kucinich’s invitation to the Nevada debate. NBC is owned by GE (the BIG weapons, medical and nuke plant manufacturer) and appears threatened by a candidate that is opposed to war, for universal medical care and has a progressive energy policy. The media anointed “three candidates” have arranged the debates into a safe corner where the exchange of minor attacks centering on racism and Bill Clintons oral sex escapades remain center stage, entertaining the delegates for the coming weeks, while issues of life, death, debt, energy, global warming and health care are removed from the stage. You might say Kucinich (and Mike Gravel) do not have the numbers for a viable candidacy. This approach is wrong for the following reasons: A candidate that meets the party’s requirements and gets on the ballots should get equal time; polls should not determine anything in a campaign; poll numbers vary wildly from one candidate to another weekly and state by state; you can not have a viable candidacy unless your platform/voice makes the news. Is the campaign of Kucinich and Gravel so threatening as to compel NPR to follow the media monopoly’s lead, lock step, in all manners and ways? Is Democracy Now! such a threat that big money plutocrats and big money corporations would cut off the flow of station funding? Is the status quo that fragile? Is the censorship of presidential candidates’ ideas that essential in the maintenance of political control? February 1, 2008 11:44 AM
February 4, 2008 7:58 AM
Happy birthday all of you (and all of us). And by the time I came back from Stanford, '70, it was the North Country Defense Committee's fight against the 760KV power line. As I remember that time, Jackie was WSLU, Martha was the newpapers, and Ellen was a charismatic leader in that fight. And things had gotten too grim for folk music. Here's a question about the history of NPR, not NCPR. I used to listen to the CBC's great news program As It Happens, with Barbara Fromme (?) and Alan Maitland (?). When NPR came up with a show in the same format, All Things Considered, with Susan Stamberg and Bob Edwarde(?) I thought they'd pretty obviously copied the CBC. Is that right? At first, I remember thinking, it was but a pale copy. AIH was awfully good. What about current trends in radio? This is a time to think about the future too. I am getting worried about it. Smart-ass, overproduced, quick-cut segments, even on ATC; heard one yesterday on a science matter, can't remember what. Do you think NPR is trying to go the way of the print newsmagazines, more and more cleverness and entertainment? Loyally, Tim March 7, 2008 11:59 AM
March 7, 2008 12:00 PM
enjoying the birthday show. We'd vacationed here several times but I dont think ever turned on a radio but we moved here August 27, 1998. I drove from VA in a large Ryder rent-a-truck towing a small car --totally unqualified to do so. As we came through PA into NY I listened to NPR stations along the way and "somewhere above Syracuse" I found NCPR and have been on board ever since. It was a Thursday (I looked it up) so I dont think Radio Bob was on that afternoon but I know I soon discovered this strange guy who played old R&B.... As several callers have said, I can't imagine living here without NCPR. Thanks for everything March 7, 2008 12:05 PM
March 7, 2008 12:09 PM
I started listening when we moved to Kingston from the remote outpost that is Prince Edward Island (over there by Iceland) five years ago and now listen from Todd to well past twilight. Your station has been instrumental in framing my idea that we live in a river valley shared by two countries rather than on opposite sides of a wall-like border. Now, because of NCPR, we’ve seen hockey games at SLU, spent summers hunting for frozen custard (unknown in Canada) and also explained your history through showing our kids civil war monuments in North Country town parks – all due to being attracted by these voices coming out of Canton. Come to think of it, I have also bought a banjo and a mandolin because of String Fever and also have, for a Canadian, an inordinate knowledge of the politics of a state senate race as well as the opinions of one Mr. Bruno down in Albany. Thanks for all you do and here’s to another 40 years! March 7, 2008 12:11 PM
Hearing Jackie and Ellen and Bob reminisce made me think about the station's early days and my connections. I am listening online from Florence, Italy where my husband, Graham Holmes, also a big fan, is working for a few months. So we arrived in Potsdam in 1976 and came to see people at the station in the early part of 1977, where I was welcomed by Jimmy Arvidsen, Rick Hutto and Jackie and invited to do some announcing and given the chance to do a program on Broadway musicals. I had the joy of doing On Broadway for several years, even after we left the region for Schenectady, thanks to Jackie's and others' great editing. Before I left I had another wonderful opportunity, together with Bob Vilas--the chance to coordinate the very first fund drive in the Fall of 1978. That's when I first met Ellen who was offering as a premium maple syrup and, I think, some chickens, as a premium. And as Jackie just said, we didn't give a dollar amount for the first drive. We didn't want to look foolish. We collected premiums from shops, businesses, people-- anyone we could think of-- literally knocking on doors. (The first year, Graham did his English dinner as a premium, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and after that, for some years he did different sizes of Christmas puddings based on sizes of contributions, made in and sent from Schenectady). The station is still wonderful and we still enjoy listening to it, from Lake Clear in the summer and now online. Keep on doing what you do!! Lots of love from Karen Cohen and Graham Holmes from a far country P.S. I think when Rick Hutto left, didn't her first go to Guam? Or had he been there before he came to Canton. March 7, 2008 12:14 PM
So, today is the day NCPR turns 40. I remember that day, it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be... Seriously, congratulations to you and all the staff for making the station what it is today - a venerable North Country institution - enriching the lives of the people of the North Country through your programming and your building of community. We are so lucky to have you all, and St. Lawrence University could not be more proud of its association with North Country Public Radio! March 7, 2008 12:17 PM
Ben and Will wish a very Happy Birthday to you young whippersnappers too. Live from Middle Saranac, March 7, 2008 12:18 PM
Kim Dedam, P-R staff writer March 7, 2008 3:43 PM
We love your station; we love public radio. Happy Birthday and many, many more. Paula and Dave Weal of Carthage and Old Forge March 8, 2008 8:47 AM
Happy birthday to WSLU as i've traveled coming home always meant we would search through the dark living in the sunny south you saw me through my triumphs I reach for you each morning Mimi Van Deusen March 10, 2008 3:14 PM |
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