Word: wbur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Respondents included Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, Boston Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans, Christopher Lydon, host of "The Connection" on WBUR-FM, Margarita Muniz, principal of the Rafael Hernandez School, Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, co-pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church and pediatrician, O'Brien and moderator Martha Minow, professor at Harvard Law School...
...speech, co-sponsored by the Higher Education Student Association and delivered before a crowd of about 100 at the Graduate School of Education, was followed by a commentary by Bill Littlefield, host of WBUR radio's "Only a Game...
...listened to WBUR's fund drive all last week and the week before, and by the end I was ready to rush wild-eyed into the streets, gibbering out the precepts of supply-side until they came with straitjackets to take me away. Governments that wish to flout basic human rights without risking their most-favored-nation trading status could strap dissidents into chairs and make them listen to this stuff...
...course, the obvious response is that WBUR'swhimper represents the equivalent of all the hoursof paid advertising I'd hear on commercial radio.But at least commercial advertisements offer somevariety--first they compare buying a particularmake of car to sex, and then they compare drinkinga particular brand of beer to sex, and then theyplug the station. Public radio has a morechallenging task: to make people pay for a servicethey'd get for free in any case...
...evade the ramifications of the freeriderproblem, WBUR attempts to persuade listeners thatthey have actually entered a contract to pay fortheir programming. Thus the following post-showpatter: "I hope you enjoyed the BBC broadcast wejust heard. And I hope you realize that that theBBC charges us hundreds of thousands of dollars tosubscribe to their services. Now weeeeeee spendthat money for that service because youuuuu toldus youuuuu wanted it. Weeeeee take that risk, andyouuuu owe it to us to make those telephonesring...