Monday, November 15, 2004
Overnight jazz great, but Arafat coverage terrible
n response to your request for comments, I want to thank you again for good jazz programming between midnight and 5 AM, 7 on weekends. I wish that you would add some daytime jazz shows, since it is a great challenge to attempt to waken early each day, to catch a few notes. I am not a fan of the Sunday gospel program, nor the evening jazz program ‘Mama Jazz’ hosts; she talks WAY too much and the music she features is too old time-y for my taste. I dislike Dixieland. If she would play swing and stop talking, it would be tolerable. Again, please pass along my compliments to Scott Hanley, for casting a wide net amongst the thousands of albums recorded from the late 40s up to now. Bebop lives - in his cabinets too! Who is this guy? He deserves a promotion!
Therefore it was quite a thrill to hear, at 2:55 pm Thursday this week, the recording of Tab Smith playing your program’s theme song all the way through, for 5 minutes! I kept pinching - what station was I listening to? We are smart listeners out here, so please continue reach out to touch our minds, hearts and souls.
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However, what motivates this letter, is your BIASED coverage of Arafat’s passing. How dare you solicit Israeli or Jewish ‘experts’ to interpret his life’s accomplishments and the ‘meaning’ of the new vacancy? That is not objective reporting!!!!!!!!!!! Each time you presented word of his transfer to a Paris hospital, you trotted out one more anti-Arafat ‘expert’ with a heavy Jewish accent, who labeled him a terrorist. Yet you boast about bringing us ‘news and information.’
Truly, it is time for you to repair your programming so far, and bring onto interview shows those who are his countrymen and women. I have yet to hear one word from Hanan Ashrawi, for example, despite the fact that she is a strong spokesperson of Palestinian causes. Certainly you can represent BOTH viewpoints in analysis, but up to now your ‘news’ is followed by some Israeli or Jewish Zionist narrow viewpoint interpreting the ‘significance’ of Arafat’s life. STOP THIS! This nation is full of college professors with expertise about the Arab world, who can provide valuable insight if you would open your mind and seek them out!
And remember, the Iraq war, the 9/11 attack and Arafat are inextricably linked. They are insurrections by voiceless, stateless folk who have been unrepresented for so long that violence is their only vote. It is time for you to present objective coverage about the close alliance between the present US govt and Israel, and how that partnership led up to attacks on US territory. Bush is not bringing terrorists to ‘justice’ - his actions are generating new ‘terrorists’ daily. Bush fears the right path, i.e. sitting around a table and talking to reach compromise, wraps his actions in the flag, sending thousands of patriotic needy young folk to death.
Keep up the investigation into Ohio election irregularities - that is both newsworthy and locally relevant! You can be a change-agent, rather than serving up some pap to the uninformed.
--D.B.
Therefore it was quite a thrill to hear, at 2:55 pm Thursday this week, the recording of Tab Smith playing your program’s theme song all the way through, for 5 minutes! I kept pinching - what station was I listening to? We are smart listeners out here, so please continue reach out to touch our minds, hearts and souls.
^^^^^^^^^
However, what motivates this letter, is your BIASED coverage of Arafat’s passing. How dare you solicit Israeli or Jewish ‘experts’ to interpret his life’s accomplishments and the ‘meaning’ of the new vacancy? That is not objective reporting!!!!!!!!!!! Each time you presented word of his transfer to a Paris hospital, you trotted out one more anti-Arafat ‘expert’ with a heavy Jewish accent, who labeled him a terrorist. Yet you boast about bringing us ‘news and information.’
Truly, it is time for you to repair your programming so far, and bring onto interview shows those who are his countrymen and women. I have yet to hear one word from Hanan Ashrawi, for example, despite the fact that she is a strong spokesperson of Palestinian causes. Certainly you can represent BOTH viewpoints in analysis, but up to now your ‘news’ is followed by some Israeli or Jewish Zionist narrow viewpoint interpreting the ‘significance’ of Arafat’s life. STOP THIS! This nation is full of college professors with expertise about the Arab world, who can provide valuable insight if you would open your mind and seek them out!
And remember, the Iraq war, the 9/11 attack and Arafat are inextricably linked. They are insurrections by voiceless, stateless folk who have been unrepresented for so long that violence is their only vote. It is time for you to present objective coverage about the close alliance between the present US govt and Israel, and how that partnership led up to attacks on US territory. Bush is not bringing terrorists to ‘justice’ - his actions are generating new ‘terrorists’ daily. Bush fears the right path, i.e. sitting around a table and talking to reach compromise, wraps his actions in the flag, sending thousands of patriotic needy young folk to death.
Keep up the investigation into Ohio election irregularities - that is both newsworthy and locally relevant! You can be a change-agent, rather than serving up some pap to the uninformed.
--D.B.
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