WMUB Listener Feedback

In Support of News and Notes and Tavis Smiley: I would like to give my thanks for WMUB's choice of airing News and Notes and the Tavis Smiley Show. As a lifetime listener to NPR and a member of WMUB, I am aware that in spite of the fine journalism that NPR brings to its listeners, there exists a white media-bias, not only with NPR, but in most mainstream media. Recent criticism of News and Notes and Tavis Smiley, and the accusation that they take up time proporting “African American points of view” has left me frustated. Do we assume that NPR does and SHOULD only cater to one demographic and that African-American views need not have air time? We hear White perspectives the majority of the time, in news and other programing, and I am happy and willing and DESIRE to hear another perspective daily. I only wish there were more! Thank you for airing these programs.

--Carrie via email