Wednesday, June 07, 2006

War News Radio: Student Radio at its Finest

Students at Swarthmore College produce a syndicated journalistic radio show called "War News Radio" which aims to "rediscover the voices of real people" ignored by coverage of the Afghan and Iraq Wars by mainstream media. To this end, they interview Afghan women, Iraqi realtors, young U.S. military recruits, old Army Reserve members called to foreign service and doctors and journalists in the war zones. WNR has won several awards and been featured in the New Yorker, the Philadelphia Inquirer, BBC and Fox. You can access all their archives here.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

I admit I was pretty skeptical when I read this post (What does Swat know about anything?), but it actually made me cry when I opened the most recent story. What these young men do every day amazes me. And while I don't believe in a God, I pray for my friends every day who are enlisting, about to leave, or are already there - just in case. Thanks for sharing this.

Weepily,
Jenny

7:42 PM EST  

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