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Chicago Public Radio's "Snow Day"

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MattParker

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What's the difference between broadcasting and education? Teachers and students get a day off when it snows. Broadcasters supposedly don't. Except this week in Chicago when the blizzard of '11 hit. Public radio (and TV) shut down local news coverage:

Robert Feder said:
What’s known for sure is that Tuesday night and Wednesday morning were giddy marathons for Chicago’s electronic media, with television alternately trying to inform, amuse and distract the snowbound masses watching at home, and radio rising to the challenge for those stuck in cars or on public transit for hour after hour....

What’s also known for sure is who the biggest loser was: WTTW-Channel 11, which declared Wednesday a snow day and shut down its entire news operation. Viewers who tuned in to Chicago Tonight expecting an analysis of the city’s response to the crisis or an examination of the blizzard’s political and economic impact were stunned to see a rerun of the public television station’s forum with mayoral candidates from Jan. 17. Equally disappointing was the cancellation Wednesday of Eight Forty-Eight, the morning newsmagazine on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ-FM (91.5). In both cases, public broadcasting failed the public.
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MattParker said:
What's the difference between broadcasting and education? Teachers and students get a day off when it snows. Broadcasters supposedly don't. Except this week in Chicago when the blizzard of '11 hit. Public radio (and TV) shut down local news coverage:

Robert Feder said:
What’s known for sure is that Tuesday night and Wednesday morning were giddy marathons for Chicago’s electronic media, with television alternately trying to inform, amuse and distract the snowbound masses watching at home, and radio rising to the challenge for those stuck in cars or on public transit for hour after hour....

What’s also known for sure is who the biggest loser was: WTTW-Channel 11, which declared Wednesday a snow day and shut down its entire news operation. Viewers who tuned in to Chicago Tonight expecting an analysis of the city’s response to the crisis or an examination of the blizzard’s political and economic impact were stunned to see a rerun of the public television station’s forum with mayoral candidates from Jan. 17. Equally disappointing was the cancellation Wednesday of Eight Forty-Eight, the morning newsmagazine on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ-FM (91.5). In both cases, public broadcasting failed the public.
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WBEZ's response to Feder, through Current (be sure to scroll down):

http://currentpublicmedia.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-chicago-blizzard-public-broadcasting.html
 
MattParker said:
What's the difference between broadcasting and education? Teachers and students get a day off when it snows. Broadcasters supposedly don't. Except this week in Chicago when the blizzard of '11 hit. Public radio (and TV) shut down local news coverage:
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Except it did not happen that way. You know, if you are going to carry on about how public radio and TV have failed humanity in every way possible, it might be better to actually say something factual. Like, for example how public broadcasting is breaking every typical American's budget with the overwhelming costs for each taxpayer (about $2 a year per person, actually). :p
 
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