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When Salim was arrested in Munich, he said he had arrived in Germany for the first time in 1995, to buy electronics to set up an Arabic-language radio station in Sudan. The U.S. says the real goal was to get radio equipment that could be used by al-Qaeda to communicate with its operatives. The following year, however, found al-Qaeda in confusion: Sudan expelled bin Laden, and the group's members were scattered until their high command returned to Afghanistan. Salim was living in Dubai and by 1998 had made four more visits to Germany, ostensibly to look...
...became my friends. Well, they had to become my friends because I saw them so much,” she says. Unlike O’Dette, Baudoiun did not go to Emerson with the intention of working at WERS, but an existing love of music brought her to the station. “A friend of mine was music director, and he offered me a show [to DJ]. I thought, ‘Great! I can bring in those CDs that I’ve been already trying to get out there...
...more important part of Baudouin’s job is to make sure that the WERS name is well-known in the music business. “I make a trip down to New York twice a month to keep up WERS’ reputation as a big-name station in the Boston market,” she explains. “I meet executives from record companies, and I’m learning how to communicate within the music industry. There’s a certain kind of talk.” All the sweet-talking and flesh-pressing...
It’s these connections that the music director forges that allow WERS to be at the head of getting new music on the air waves. “We receive new music before anyone else, even before commercial stations, because the industry realizes that we’re a major player in the Boston market,” Baudouin explains. WERS sticks by the artists it plays and has a list of musicians they call “WERS Alumni” who were played there before any other station thought to pick them up. The list includes...
...Ground zero of the propaganda war has been inaccessible to most Americans - Qatar's Al Jazeera cable TV network, the single most important opinion-maker in the Arab world, broadcasts only in Arabic. But Boston NPR station WBUR is now offering Americans a peek at what the Arab world is hearing through its daily translations of Al Jazeera's news broadcasts. While much of the reportage comes straight from the wires, Taliban spin gets a lot more air than it would in the U.S. Example: "The Taliban say the U.S.-led campaign is a crusade against Islam and claim...