Speaking of NPR: PATRICK, where are you?
--Deb ...spending a week in LA next month --- On Wed, 12/10/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MEDIADEADPOOL] D2D, F. Chideya at NPR > To: wnndl@googlegroups.com > Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 9:24 PM > > While I liked some stories on Day to Day, I never saw > the reason > > to have it. > > It was meant to attract listeners middays and attract > younger > listeners. It probably never achieved its first goal > because stations > that run music during the day are useless to NPR news-only > listeners, > who won't come back just for one hour at a time. I > have no idea what > results were on the second count. > > > But News & Notes (and the Tavis Smiley show > before it) did have > > a purpose. You'd think NPR would want to keep > those voices > > on the air after the first 100 days of Obama's > administration. > > Agree, but if the criteria here were ratings and > underwriting, I can't > imagine News and Notes was tremendously successful. Still, > it's hard > to fault the current staff. The mistake was probably on > NPR's part > from the moment Tavis Smiley left; I'm not sure this > program ever > received the kind of top-tier attention necessary after > that. > > Juan Williams is terrible. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to wnndl@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
