Talk of Alaska: Political Corruption
Tue, July 31, 2007
Posted in Talk of Alaska
Problems with ethics in politics have become almost daily news in Alaska. First there were indictments against former and sitting state legislators and now U.S. Senator Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young are under federal investigation while Senator Lisa Murkowski has an ethics complaint filed against her in the Senate Ethics Committee. We’ll discuss how we got to this point and what to expect next.
HOST: Michael Carey, independent journalist
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- Dermot Cole, columnist, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- Bill McAllister, Juneau Bureau Chief, KTUU Channel 2 News
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As usual, you commentators have hogged the full hour.
Michael,
You guys have all day, all week, all year to propound your views.
You didn’t open up for comments until 10:45.
How about a chance for the unwashed masses to begin comments at15 or 20 minutes after instead of the usual 40 minutes?
It’s hard enough to be heard state-wide and I know people from Kodiak, Cordova, Friday Harbor, Wa and Anchorage who have tried to get on today. Technical difficulties or not this program needs to be re-formatted. It is not Anchorage Edition
Folks, we apologize profusely for the telephone difficulties today. I asked producer Duncan Moon for a comment on this situation, and he sent me the following note…
Our apologies for the lack of phone calls this morning to Talk of Alaska. It was due to technical problems with our phone system and not a desire on our APRN’s part to limit the discussion. We strongly believe the more calls we can get on the show, the better the show becomes — lots of callers make for better radio and the diversity of views they provide serve our mission far better than the traditional talk-show format of a host and 2 guests. I am sure we will be returning to today’s topic of corruption in Alaska in future shows and will look forward to your calls then.
For the record, Michael Carey, today’s host, was getting increasingly agitated in the studio this morning, waiting for callers to show up. He was expecting a lot of calls and got concerned when none showed up.
Our engineering staff is currently modifying their Talk of Alaska prep procedures to include a proactive check of the phones prior to air time. So this shouldn’t happen again.
Last week the 800 number stayed busy, too.
Does anyone get the emails during the show addressed to TOA?
I reported last week’s problem and sent in some questions today (yes, I should have emailed them yesterday.)
Currently, the staff working on Talk of Alaska don’t check e-mails during the program. I’m hoping in future revisions to the show we can keep the e-mail and web site traffic integrated with the content of the live program, but that will require teaching some, well… old dogs new tricks.
To my knowledge, the 800 number was working fine last week — I don’t remember hearing anything about that. But I don’t read the TOA inbound e-mail.