Farewell News and Notes

March 20th is the last broadcast for NPR’s News and Notes.  This show was impacted with the budget cuts at NPR due to the expense of cost to air that show which originates at NPR West studios.  This is my recent letter I wrote to them.  If you get the chance please go onto the NPR site and type in News and Notes to hear some of the various stories they have covered through the years!!!

I would listen to your show in passing after leaving work on WEAA in Baltimore, MD in the evenings.  I started regularly getting into download the podcasts to listen to  faithfully once I purchased my MP3 player as my Christmas gift in ’07 and have been listening to you guys for over a year.  I wrote earlier to express my disappointment in the show being given the boot when it is still a much needed voice in our diverse world and how current events impact black people from all walks of life!!   This show has done a FANTASTIC service to those who aren’t black (or have little interaction with blacks) to enlighten them on us and get a perspective not shown thru mainstream media outlets so they truly have a “fair and balanced” outlook of us!!!   I will truly miss the variety of subjects covered by the show and the show’s take on current events from diverse viewpoints (some I agree with and some I don’t).  Some people you have featured on your show I have taken interest to find out more about them thru their blogs, tv appearances on news shows, news articles, music or autobiographies to read or audiobook.  I wish the entire staff of News and Notes the best of luck in all of your future endeavors and a heartfelt thanks to Tony Cox for carrying the torch of maintaining the utmost quality and class of the show after the Fantastic Farai’s departure in January!!

GOD BLESS