vision2020@moscow.com: Flood and KRFA's (non) coverage
Flood and KRFA's (non) coverage
John Francis (francisj@moscow.com)
Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:14:20 +0000
KRFA our "news and views" NPR station did not exactly distinguish
itself during the flood.
Tuesday noon a friend phoned me from Pullman to say both Main and
Grand were closed because of water. I turned on KRFA for news. Not a word
on this development, only a few blocks from KRFA's studio.
That set the tone. All the drama at Colfax and Palouse, Waitsburg
and Dayton: not a word. No KRFA reporter went out anywhere with a
recorder; no reporter apparently even bothered to phone anywhere and find
out what was going on. The entire flood coverage consisted of lists of
road and school closures, supplied to the station.
This morning (Saturday) the only flood news was a wire report about
cleanup efforts in western Oregon. The Palouse River rose, flooded the
town of Palouse, townspeople labored to protect the well, and presumably
triumphed All this drama, and not a mention on KRFA. KRFA people seem so
lacking in news sense it never even occurred to them to cover the biggest
event in the Palouse in decades.
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