Food North Carolina: NC wine study

As best I can tell, it took WUNC at least three days to discover this. They presented it today as though it had just been released, but it actually was released on Tuesday, as best I can tell. Does this merit "news" coverage?

The NCAA And The So-Called Student-Athlete : NPR

I would think this should have gotten a lot more attention on WUNC than just with programming from NPR, including this and another Morning Edition piece. According to this, he is a UNC graduate.

"Rebuilding Haiti" -The Diane Rehm Show

It was nice to see this show back-to-back with this one on the State of Things but too bad no one noted it either in advance or following with these links for anyone interested in seeing a somewhat local and more global look at Haiti.

North Carolina Public Radio Association

This looks a tad inactive.

License renewal

Just heard thte on-air announcement again about WUNC's license renewal applicaiton. The applicaiton contains, I imagine, all sorts of interesting stuff about the station's performance over the past 8 years. Is any of that posted online? No, it seems. Do they offer to mail a copy of what might be a big document? No. Instead, anyone who wishes is welcome to come to the station's offices and review it there. For a lot of people, that's a huge investment of time, and I bet they get very few takers. Perhaps it is time for at least one person to go to the station, take a bunch a notes and do what the station ought to have done, and share that with a larger community.
In the end, WUNC must show that it has operated in the "public interest".
Deadline for comments to the FCC is 1 Nov, so says the announcement on-air.
I wonder if any competing applications are being filed? WUNC is just a licensee and if someone puts together a better station proposal, the FCC can award the license to a different entity, as most people don't realize, I am pretty sure.

"At Colleges, the Marketers Are Everywhere" - NYTimes.com

Let's see - any chance that WUNC will mention this story?

Civil War

With all the hoopla about creating stories of the Civil War from WUNC listeners, is this all they could do? I found 3 interesting ones here and no others.

Perhaps that is why the link to these appears not to be postable directly? You'll need to copy all in quotes to have a chance of accessing it....

"http://wunc.org/programs/voices/civil-war/your-civil-war-stories/?searchterm=civil war"