As some of you know, I have turned into a NPR (national public radio) junkie. Today I heard a plug for a story that will air tomorrow on The Talk Show:
Wednesday, 08/30
One year ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast and submerged most of New Orleans under several feet of filthy water and mud. How are things there today? Is the city making a recovery? How are survivors coping and what lessons can be learned from the government’s handling of the crisis? Krys Boyd will talk with several guests this hour - David Oestreicher, President of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation, and Dr. Nicole Dash, a University of North Texas Sociologist who studies disasters, social vulnerability, and inequality. We’ll spend the last part of the hour with Joe Demma, investigations editor for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which uncovered massive FEMA aid fraud prior to Hurricane Katrina and continues to investigate the federal agency today. Demma and his staff are featured in “Crisis Mismanagement,” the premier episode of a new PBS series AIR: America’s Investigative Reports which will air Sunday, September 3rd at 1pm on KERA 13.
I took a class with Dr. Dash, Sociology of Sexuality, a few years ago! She was a most awesome prof and I loved her class. It is so cool to hear someone I know to be on NPR.
As soon as it is available, I will link the story here so you can listen.
August 29th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Most of my favorite people are NPR junkies.
Sounds like it will be a fascinating show.
August 30th, 2006 at 12:13 am
YOU were the one who turned me into a NPR Junkie! I am only sad that our NPR is better than y’all’s! There is too much music and not enough talk on y’all’s, while we get stuff 24-7 =)
August 31st, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Cool I know Nikki Dash - I have been working with her on a course, I will have to ask her about that next time I see her. I never got to see that Spike Lee documentary called “When the Levees Broke” - I’m kind of amazed how it’s all kind of dropping off the radar because it’s so screwed up there’s not much anyone can do. Kind of like what the US basically did after the Civil War in the South during um, heh, Reconstruction. Brings up a lot of interesting stuff, indeed.