Last Friday was the last "Radio Commentary" for the fall semester, and maybe longer than that. Between a heavy teaching load, scholarly activities, serving as President of the Wisconsin Communication Association for 2006-2007, maintaining a blog and website, co-hosting Eye on Oshkosh, thinking seriously about running for Common Council, and trying to have a life outside of those things, something had to give. Many thanks to all who have supported the radio show, especially Bob Knudsen (the founder of "Wild Eyed Radio" who last year invited me to start Radio Commentary on WRST), Frank McCandless (always offers great encouragement to independent media activists and a great help with uploading content to the web), Justin Mitchell (composed last semester's Radio Commentary intro tune, "Two Miles From Brooklyn"), Drew Van Wyk and Sarah Garfinkel (this semester's Radio Commentary producers), Keith Kinter and Bill Kerkhof (engineers), and Ben Jarman (WRST Director), and all our guests and listeners.
I think radio is a great medium for independent news, as Amy Goodman has skillfully demonstrated. Radio Commentary will almost certainly return at some point in the future, maybe as live radio but perhaps or also as a podcast.
Here's last Friday's interview with regular guest pundit Dan Rylance.
Classic Orson Welles' Radio Broadcast of War of the Worlds:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 4
Part 5
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