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I missed this in the WUNC news report today. Maybe it was a different press release?

Bringing Animal – and Human – Medicine into the 21st Century :: North Carolina State University

189,000 to go

Heard this at some point mid-afternoon.

Why, exactly, does WUNC fail to say anything about amount raised til late in each fund drive?

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It's fascinating to see that number go down to about 150,000 overnight, with 3,800 people contributing, and then a little later today, up to 4,100.

At one point, they said the drive would end tomorrow - they wait til near the end to say when it will end - and at another point they said it is "anitcipated" to end.

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And now this morning 6 May, at 9 AM, they report that they have hit their target of 750,000.

2,300+ contributors

Did I hear that correctly?

Which programs interrupted?

It's curious to see that WUNC interrupts some programs during the fund drive and not others. I wonder if it is a function of the program supplier? It sure would be nice for WUNC to explain more, and more often, how they go about picking the programming they obtain and choose to carry on their frequencies. That represents about 90% of each 24 hour period, no? It probably even includes the news promos read by local announcers, at least the words, but I am only guessing at that.

From WUNC & NPR — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC

Compare the home page of WUNC right now with that of The New York Times. One might ask a bunch of questions about judgments on this morning of Bin Laden's death news, no?

Priorities

One could argue, and I certainly would, that this is a day when WUNC should suspend its fund-raising and contest-sponsoring announcements so that we can listen to NPR and BBC coverage of the aftermath of Bin Laden's death. Their failure to do so in any meaningful way (ok, they may have done a little less this morning for a while) raises huge questions in my mind about what WUNC thinks its mission may be.

For those who want to listen to the full BBC Newshour, you can do so here.