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#1: I listen to your station every morning on the way to work and every evening on the way home. I have been an avid supporter of NPR for years, although, admittedly, I prefer community radio when available. Still, for the most part, I respect and depend upon NPR's largely fair attempts at news reporting. I was disappointed this morning when I heard one of your newscasters refer to the reasonings behind pushes for a recount in Ohio as "conspiracy theory." That is not unbiased reporting. Whether your newscasters agree with the pushes for a recount or not, they should report the efforts and motivations without editorializing and namecalling. People have legitimate concerns about the vote in Ohio and nationwide, just as they did in 2002 and 2000. Those concerns deserve to be treated legitimately.

--Christina Dendy

#2: I was appalled by the oblivious bias displayed in a report I heard this morning on your radio station. It was very clear in his  tone and wording of his report that he is very pro republican. He was taking about the effort in Ohio to call for a recount. He kept calling the people in the effort "anti-bush activists" he also called the candidates calling for the recount "the losers" in the contests. I thought for a minute I was listening to Rush Limbaugh. I thought I could depend on public radio to be fair and not biased in the reporting.  Mr. Cohen's obvious hatred for the people trying exercise their rights to uphold democracy and a fair election is disgraceful. If he is unable to keep his opinions out of his reporting he should be fired. I think that WMUB should be ashamed that they would let a report like that air on their station.

--T.C.

WMUB's response: The writers are referring to a story by Bill Cohen of the Ohio Statehouse News Bureau, which supplies reports to WMUB and other public stations around the state. Rather than trying to speak for the News Bureau, we have forwarded the reaction to them.