FUTURE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING on NPR Wed. who should pay
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A program rundown & digest for NPR station WBFO:
Public broadcasting: who should pay?
Talk of the Nation
HOST: NEAL CONAN
Wednesday, June 22
2 to 4 P.M.
WBFO-FM
TOTN RUNDOWN FOR
WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 22, 2005
Talk of the Nation
a 2-hour show
2 to 4 pm
Hour one
FUTURE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING
GUESTS:
NICK GILLESPIE
* Editor in chief of Reason magazine
MIKE MCCAULEY
*Associate Professor of Communciation and Journalism,
University of Maine
As congress considers cuts in funding for Public Radio and television,
some supporters as well as critics say public broadcasters might be better
off, without government money.
Join Neal Conan for a look at government,
corporations, foundations and you the listener...
who should pay for public broadcasting?
For More See--
Drastic Reductions in Public Broadcasting Funding Proposed
<http://www.wbfo.org/about/funding05.php3>
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Talk of the Nation
3 P.M.
HOUR TWO
WORKING TOWARDS WHITENESS
GUESTS:
DAVID ROEDIGER (ROH-dih-gur)
*author of "Working Towards Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became
White." (Basic Books, June 2005)
*Director, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at the University
of Illinois in Urbana.
Today, names like Mancuso, Weisman, and Conan only hint about their ethnic
roots... a hundred years ago, any of them would earn you relegation to a
distinct ethnic group, complete with with stereotypes, and discrimination.
Join Neal Conan and guests for a look at how America expanded the
definition of whiteness, next Talk of the Nation, from NPR News.
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