Comments on: Radiolab producers release ‘yellow rain’ email

By: Notbuyingit

Notbuyingit — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:23:00 +0000

Sorry, just because they released an e-mail and told us Pat did his homework doesn’t absolve them. If Pat did his homework, he would have shared more about criticisms of the bee feces theory, but that got in the way of the story they wanted to tell about Reagan and chemical weapons. Go to “Politics & the Life Sciences,” 24 August 2007, starting on page 24, and you’ll find plenty of reasons to doubt the veracity of “yellow rain = bee dung.” Pat Walters had this article and more like it in hand and never said a word about it. The RadioLab crew came into this story with an agenda and let nothing stand in their way. Their sad attempts to cover themselves in journalistic glory now are transparent and will prove unsuccessful

By: KEverhart

KEverhart — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Hi Nerd Out — There’s a hyperlink to this in News Cut in the last paragraph.

By: The real fact of the matter

The real fact of the matter — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:14:00 +0000

Why did Cappello not address the fact that Radiolab left out credentials for the Yangs? The final cut of the story framed the Hmong as uneducated, backwards, and ignorant then they deliberately left the credentials of the Hmong out when all the white men in the story were attributed accurately. Cappello appeared to make a thorough explanation but he deliberately left out the allegation Kao Kalia Yang made about the imbalance of power in the story. The “fact of the matter” here is that we are told it was not the producers intention to use the tone they did and hurt the Yangs them but the story itself gives us an entirely different reality. There is not alignment with what they said they intended to do and what actually took place that’s why they can’t edit out the imbalance of power and prejudice being promoted and perpetuated in the final cut and has to do damage control.

By: Nerd Out

Nerd Out — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:18:00 +0000

So why link to everything else but leave out Radiolab’s resonse with the questions they originally sent to Kao Kalia Yang? That can be found here:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2012/10/5x8_-_102512.shtml