News & Public Affairs
Rick Scott signs Florida budget, slashes $600 million in line-item vetoes listen
05/26/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: media, Rick Scott, TBARTA, USF, budget, 2011 Legislative session, veto
Republican Governor Rick Scott signed the state budget today. Florida lawmakers had cut nearly $4 billion from the budget for next fiscal year. But today in a private Republican Party of Florida event at The Villages, Scott announced he had vetoed $615 million in line items.
10 comments"There were 3,036 line items in the budget. 3,036. I know this because I looked at every single line item in the budget, and it took quite a ...
Sex Scandal Coverage, Medicare Privatization and Open Phones
05/23/11 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Danny Schechter, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, sex, rape, media
Good afternoon, welcome to the Last call. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up Danny Schechter, one time news director at WBCN-FM in Boston and former staffer at ABC News. He recently wrote an op-ed about the recent widely publicized sex-scandals in which he said:
Be the first to comment"My colleague Mike Whitney asks: "So, what are the chances that Strauss-Kahn will get a fair trial now that he's been blasted as a serial sex offender in about 3,000 articles and in all the televised news reports?
"Do you remember any ...
What happened in the just concluded Florida Legislative session?
05/12/11 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Janet Zink, st. petersburg times, Media, 2011 legislative session
St. Petersburg Times Tallahassee reporter Janet Zink discusses the just concluded Florida 2011 Legislative session, specifically the chaos that ensued on the last night of the session.
Be the first to commentCuban Five advocates say trial journalists moonlighted as pro-US propagandists listen
05/09/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuban Five, Fidel Castro, Free the Cuban Five, Cuba, Miami, media, Poynter
For thirteen years members of the group known as the Cuban five have been in prison in the US. They were convicted on charges including espionage and conspiracy to commit murder after the Cuban military shot down two US planes in 1996. They were living in Florida at the time, and had allegedly infiltrated a network of anti-Castro Cuban exiles. A group that’s been fighting for the Cuban Five’s release says propaganda impeded their right to a fair trial.
The trial took place in Miami, where ...
Be the first to commentLast Call with Wayne Garcia
04/21/11 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Wayne Garcia, Media, politics, Creative Loafing
Former Creative Loafing columnist and political consultant Wayne Garcia talks about media and politics.
Be the first to commentLast Call with Dan Ruth
03/31/11 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Dan Ruth, Media, politics, State politics
Dan Ruth talks about his career and state/national and local politics.
Be the first to commentWar correspondent talks about covering Afghanistan and Pakistan
03/28/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: Kim Barker, foreign correspondents, Afghanistan, Pakistan, war, media
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Our first guest today is Kim Barker, author of the new book THE TALIBAN SHUFFLE. She chronicles the years she spent reporting on the forgotten war, doing the “Taliban Shuffle” between Afghanistan and Pakistan after the U.S. military had decamped for Iraq. Barker was an unlikely foreign correspondent—she did not own a passport, spoke only English, and knew little to nothing about Osama bin Laden or Islam. But, in the wake of 9/11, her bos...
Be the first to commentNPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard talks about public radio ethics and journalism
03/18/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NPR, Alicia Shepard, James O'Keefe, Ron Schiller, Rob Lorei, media
Good morning, Welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up this hour an interview with the ombudsman at National Public Radio. In the wake of controversies involving an NPR executive's alleged comments to undercover conservative activists there was a vote last night in the House to defund NPR.
First up some listener comments about yesterday's discussion about the passage of the teacher merit pay bill in Tallahassee. Here's what some listeners had to say (tape).
The controversy g...
Be the first to commentNational Freedom of Information Day listen
03/17/11 Zack BaddorfWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Freedom of Information, FOIA, St. Petersburg Times, Rick Scott, media
Wednesday was National Freedom of Information Day, a day designed to bring attention to the public’s right to oversee its government through open communication. About 50 people came together on the University of Florida campus yesterday evening to hear citizens, journalists and attorneys talk about the struggle to access public records and attend public meetings.
National Freedom of Information Day coincides with the birthday of former President James Madison, who’s considered by some to...
Be the first to commentI Am Someone: a Documentary on Sexual Violence
03/08/11 Dawn Morgan ElliottRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: International Women's Day, sexual violence, rape, gender issues, women's issues, violence, sexism, media
Happy International Women’s Day! I’m Dawn Morgan Elliott, a six-year volunteer with WMNF, with five years in the newsroom telling other people’s stories.
For this International Women’s Day, I want to raise the noise level on sexual abuse and violence against women, traumatic experiences that often have a silencing effect on its victims.
I’ll get personal, asking 54-year-old Baltimore native Lepena Reid to talk about the terrible attack she endured on the city streets when she was just...
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