NCPR Quarterly Public Meeting Thursday, October 20, 2016
The quarterly public meeting of North Country Public Radio’s Executive Council, which acts as the station’s community advisory board, will be held Thursday, October 20 from 1:30-3:00 pm. The quarterly meeting is held as an audio phone conference.
The meeting audio will be streamed live in a window below. It will also be available by listening in to the conference on your telephone:
To dial in to listen:
- Call 1-888-585-9008 (U.S. callers)
- Call 1-888-299-2873 (Callers in Canada)
- When prompted to enter conference room, enter 538-511-334-#
The public is invited to participate by listening in and posting questions and/or comments on this post, at the Livestream event link, or by calling toll-free: 1-877-388-6277. Or you can email questions and comments in advance of the meeting or during the meeting to Jon Sklaroff ([email protected])
Minutes of the meeting will be posted in the Executive Council blog within a few days of the meeting.
Members of the NCPR Executive Council in 2016:
- Rod Giltz, Plattsburgh, NY (chair)
- Cali Brooks, Lake Placid, NY
- Linda Cohen, Old Forge, NY
- Mark Dzwonczyk, Nicholville, NY
- John Ernst, North Hudson, NY
- Hannah Hanford, Saranac Lake, NY
- Steve Hopkins, Keene Valley, NY
- Sarah Johnson, Canton, NY
- Nancy Keet, Saranac Lake, NY
- Dale Kramer, Massena, NY
- Alan McLeod, Kingston, ON
- Stephen Meier, Queensbury, NY
- Dick Munro, Clayton, NY
- Cathy Pircsuk, Watertown, NY
- Susanna Piller, Plattsburgh
- Christopher Robinson, Potsdam, NY
- John Rosenthal, Lake Placid, NY
- Mark Scarlett, Hammond, NY
- Marion Roach Smith, Troy, NY
- Melissa Farmer Richards, Canton, NY
The governing board of North Country Public Radio is the Board of Trustees of St. Lawrence University.
Please post the contact information for the individual board members listed.
BTW where are the comments on this page from other listeners? Why do I only see my own?
Hobart Williams Smith competes directly with SLU as a university. WEOS is sponsoring Democracy Now. The idea that Goodman has a bias but NCPR doesn’t is a testable equation. Trump fro example is reported as a buffoon, a womanizer, and generally unfit for office. All positions I agree with, but Hillary is reported as competent and good for the country, meanwhile Stein is marginalized. Even Funiciello, after being interviewed by Mann for a couple hours, a few seconds are broadcast where he is quoted saying maybe he shouldn’t even run. Anyone trying to avoid bias would not pull an offhand remark out of context unless they were trying to change what the person was saying. Plus it was broadcast as a segment about the candidacy of Mike Derrick. Clearly Mann wants to elect Democrats.
The only thing that can be done to combat this problem is to broadcast all viewpoints.
It may interest you to know that according to Harpers Index: The percentage of Americans who cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 primary elections: 9 So the idea that centrism is anything but a mechanism designed to support the inequality so pervasive in human society today.
How can this station claim an unbiased voice in the worse drought anyone has ever seen, in the warmest year on record, an avoid ever linking the weather to Global Warming?
Maybe the friends are right who ask why bother to even bring this stuff up? “They will never change anything over there. It’s a closed shop. Always has been.
I don’t think so though, so in future expect these points to start getting made in competing media and through various on campus organizations.
this idea that Amy Goodman is participating in the Dakota Access Pipeline is false. She merely reported the protests. The judge dismissed her case based on the first amendment. This board sidestepping programming in an advisory capacity is a dereliction of duty.
What I am trying to do is improve the quality of the NCPR broadcast.
So with that in mind I ask once again that this station carry Amy Goodman’s show- Democracy Now!
Her recent coverage and arrest at the Dakota access pipeline protest at Standing Rock is a tribute to journalistic excellence and personal courage that’s going on right now. But for her this is not unusual. She has a reputation as an investigative journalist with few peers. Winner of multiple Polk awards as well as the Thomas Merton Award, the Right Livelihood Award, the 2009 Izzy Award, and the 2012 Gandhi Peace Award.
If we search for NPR reporters in the list of Polk winners we have to go back to 1986 to find a name. Why? Because NPR has become a mouthpiece for wealth. Even local meetings like the one in Parrishville the other evening that had about 60 people attending to discuss development of wind power was too much to ask NCPR to cover. Even with advance notice. This pro wealth bias is a violation of the corporate charter and not only leaves the station vulnerable to legal action, but is a disservice to listeners.
She works with Juan Gonzales himself a winner of the George Polk Award and a long career of journalistic excellence dating back before his education at Temple University to his role as the Information Minister for the Young Lords. A lifelong columnist at the New York Daily News, and many other outstanding achievements.
Every person interested in this station owes it to themselves to investigate the Democracy Now! daily news feed on line. If you want history they have a searchable podcast opportunity.
Let’s do an experiment.
Air the show a few times a day for and period of one month.
Then poll the subscribers about whether or not to continue.
Do we really want to reach the point where the fund drive fails before taking action?
Thank you for your time.