Hi, I’m Shereen Meraji, member of SoCal’s Web Team. Before I came to KCET, I worked as a producer for National Public Radio’s Day to Day. I can remember the buzz and excitement swirling around the NPR West studios in Culver City five years ago. We were all ready to make a different NPR show, one that focused on real people not policy wonks. Day to Day’s news analysis would come from a popular online magazine and the show would sound like it came from CALIFORNIA.
Alex Chadwick was the host then, here he is talking about NPR’s commitment to West Coast news coverage:
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Coverage from California, and by this I mean created and produced in California, is essential and generally lacking. The cultural gap between East and West only gets wider and the country becomes more intolerant of the different viewpoints when shows like D2D dissapear. NPR West was the best thing to ever happen to that network. Let's hope it comes back strong.
I am really sorry that Day to Day is going off the air. It's an excellent show. I have been a faithful listener for 5 years.
WEST SIDE! We must preserve and truly nourish the culture that spawns from the western part of this nation. If we fail, places like Los Angeles will fall further into the land of "LA-LA" and "Hollywood" in the eyes of other America.
Good piece. Way to keep us in tune!