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Email and Voicemail Boxes

Emails, letters, phone calls and great thoughts from viewers and listeners over the past few weeks:

From Dr. Michael Murray:

NPR's Lack of Transparency

NPR prides itself on its transparency. It has its own ombudsman to handle complaints over any lack of transparency as well as its own ethics handbook to deal with issues involving accuracy, fairness, completeness, honesty, independence, impartiality and transparency.

Roosevelt Rebuttal

Ken Burn's "The Roosevelts" was criticized last month by D. Streeter who was upset that it preempted regular programming and because of its emphasis on wealth and privilege.

Crossing the Red Cross

NPR, in partnership with the non-profit news operation, ProPublica, has produced a series of investigative reports about the Red Cross and some major problems that were uncovered in the wake of the Hurricane Sandy disaster.

Among the findings of the investigation:

The Lies of Obamacare (And Its Critics)

Jonathan Gruber, one of the principal architects of Romneycare in Massachusetts and later Obamacare, has been under fire for recently-released tapes from an economics conference last year that show him saying that the lack of transparency in the passage of the Affordable Care Act was intentional

Audio Arts and Sciences

Bob Perez of Florida is annoyed with the soundtrack that accompanies programs on NOVA and other public television documentaries:

Hockenberry Hypocrisy?

Murphy Terrell of Oregon was listening last week to The Takeaway, the hour-long national news program hosted by John Hockenberry and co-produced by WNYC Radio and Public Radio International. Mr. Terrell came away believing Mr. Hockenberry was sending mixed messages.

Roosevelt Preemption

D. Streeter of Central New York is a longtime viewer of PBS programming provided by two public broadcasters in her area: WCNY-TV in Syracuse and WSKG-TV in Vestal.

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