Letters to the Editor
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does Bush hate kids?
Nope. He just hates human who are not of his ilk. He said in Michael Moore's movie. His base is "the haves and the have-mores."
Do you really think any of Bush's friend's children qualify for SCHIP?
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WDUQ will soon be the flagship National Catholic Radio station
Duquesne University will begin screening all WDUQ listeners for theological and doctrinal purity. All prospective donors will need a letter from their parish priest certifying them as a Catholic in good standing and will also have to pass a 50-question test on the Baltimore Catechism. If you have ever used contraception at any point during in your lifetime, your money will be returned with a sniffy little note from the university president. The station's next step will be to replace its NPR feed and jazz programming with live broadcasts from St. Peter's Square and Gregorian chant.
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Does Bush hate kids? Obviously not as much as NOW hates kids.
SCHIP is way below the worries of many kids that would just like to be with their fathers.
Many studies show that not having fathers in their lives is terrible for kids, and it has been linked to violence and crime in boys, and babies for girls.
So what does NOW and other Broadsheet Feminists(TM) do?
Against the research, and against NOW policies from the 70s and 80s, NOW lobbies for sole custody laws and against a rebuttable presumption of shared physical custody.
So Lynn Harris, why does NOW, and you, and your blogrolls hate kids?
One step you folks could take is to take a position on Elian II in favor of the father.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-custody1707oct17,0,257774.story
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I really don't see what the problem is
A radio station affilited with a Catholic institution should not be carrying ads for products or institutions that are counter to Church policy. If the Mormon Church owns and operates stations I fully expect to find an absence of liquor and coffee ads. Capiche?
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Anonymous: The thing about DUQ though...
is that they BILL themselves as "public radio."
While it is becoming increasingly clear that they are NOT.
Which is fine but then don't fundraise as a public station. That's plain misleading, and I will NOT be renewing my subscription.
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Nancy...
Judging from the call letters of WDUQ, I'm guessing that this is a college radio station run by the university, staffed mainly by college journalism students. I'm guessing that the university has a radio station primarily for the purpose of recruiting/training students in the nuts and bolts of broadcasting.
I worked at one of these stations for four years (91.5 FM WUEV, Evansville, IN). The University of Evansville was a Methodist school, but the newscast and several other programs were underwritten by the Catholic Diocese of Evansville. I was actually the news director for two of those years, and we won the Best College Radio Newscast at the Indiana SPJ awards every year, so we must have been doing something right.
Guess what? The Diocese didn't give a rat's ass what we put in our newscast. Not ONCE did we get any flak from them. The University Public Relations Office, however, was CONSTANTLY trying to meddle...
I really don't get what the big deal is here. Nobody's infringing on journalistic freedom; they're just saying, thanks, but no thanks, to some money. The station license is held by a Catholic University, and agree with it or not, the Catholic Church considers both contraception and abortion to be gravely wrong. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the nation. Would you be so up in arms if they refused money from Phillip Morris on grounds that they're well-known to be the largest tobacco company in the nation, and that their products are known to cause cancer?
Even in the world of commercial radio, just 'cause you got the money, honey, doesn't mean we have to sell you the airtime...
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Obesity
Am I the only one who has a problem with this quote:
"when you consider that there is a strong genetic component to weight. We now have ample scientific evidence suggesting that we are each born with a set point within which our metabolism will automatically adjust no matter how many calories we consume."
If the above statement as actually true, then the CDC is lying and the population's BMI has remained steady over the past 20 years, unless this rapid shift towards obseity worldwide has come about only in a certain age range, leaving the older population thinner than the younger population, indicating that some foul, hitherto unrecognized, pre-natal virus has developed or genetic catastrophe has occurred in the past 30 years.
Let's admit the truth: on average, we eat more and exercise less than people did even 20 years ago, and certainly we eat far more and exercise far less than people did 50 years ago. Want proof? If you live in a city with good public transportation, move to a suburban neighborhood without public transit and buy a car. Use the car to get around. Watch your girth spread. Conversely, if you live in an area of the country without public transportation, move to a part of the world where people use public transportation all the time and walk the rest. Sell your car. Watch your ass shrink.
If you work in an office all day, go find a job farming or working in a mill or anything that involves moving all day. Watch as you become thinner and more muscular.
Set point. Hah.
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WDUQ is not an academic venture
From the station's website: "Duquesne University holds the broadcast license for WDUQ 90.5 FM's 25,000-watt broadcast signal. The station is a non-academic unit reporting to the Provost and Academic Vice President. Duquesne University provides DUQ with annual in-kind support (facilities and services) and 6% of cash funding."
In any case, we all know the radio station has a legal right to refuse whatever money it pleases. No one is saying it's illegal. But it makes them look silly to the general public.
Of course, they're not making this decision so they can look good for the general public. It's a decision based on principle (well, also because the church could lose some big donors and political friends otherwise...). My beef with it is the obsession of Catholics with reproductive rights. The vast majority of right-to-life folks voted for Bush for a second term, even though he is responsible for the slaughter so many innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you're really making decisions on principle, you should be opposing war and other injustices just as vehemently as you oppose birth control and abortion. And there are plenty of social justice Catholics out there, but that is only one wing of the Church. As a body, they are much more likely to take a vocal public stand on reproductive issues than on social justice. Are they going to start scrutinizing all their underwriters - or is this decision really just based on the fact that having announcements from Planned Parenthood makes them look bad?