Cause and Effect World

South Africa - 1st world side-by-side with the 3rd world

The Samantha Clemens Show
Saturdays 7-9 am
WMFO Medford 91.5

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Today in our world…

• Teaching poor kids to play violins and cellos near Capetown, South Africa?  Is this is a good use of precious resources?  Is this cultural imperialism?
• Race vs class in South Africa.  Mirror on the world?
• Gender wars in the animal kingdom - are we so different?  A stay with lions, tigers, and bears…  well, lions, elephants, buffalo, leopards, rhinos….

Media Minutes - November 2, 2007

This was a watershed week for media reform, as three important bills passed congressional committees and activists rallied in front of FCC headquarters before the final localism hearing. Meanwhile, a new study shows media consolidation is detrimental to children’s programming.

Related Links

House Committee Approves Broadband Census Act
New Report Exposes the Damaging Effects of Duopolies on Children’s Television
Public Urges the FCC to Listen to Broad Outcry Against Big Media
Senate Bill Would Help Connect Local Communities
Senate Committee Votes to Expand Low Power FM Radio 

War News Radio:

A House Divided

November 2nd, 2007

This week on War News Radio, we take a look at marriages between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims. Listen now to Hansi Lo Wang and Aaron Schwartz’s report.

Also, Iraq’s mailmen face bigger challenges than rain, sleet or hail. We hear how the Iraqi postal system keeps the mail running on time, despite the violence. Listen now to Clare Kobasa’s report.

And, in Iraq 101, we learn about the Iraqi province of Diyala. Listen now to Meredith Firetog’s report.

We also learn about Afghanistan’s city of Kandahar. Listen now to Emily Hager’s report.

Finally, in our A Day in the Life series, a student from Iraq’s far-northern Duhok province gives us his take on the threat of Turkish invasion. Listen now.

These stories, plus the week’s news, from War News Radio.