Kate Moos from "The Other Side of the Glass"
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Louisville Public Media has a fun blog, The Mediavore, that’s dedicated to highlighting and delving into the best of what public radio, television, new media has have to offer. Their occasional series mentioned in the title of this post asks producers about what they do and how they see the world with their headphones on.
Kate, our managing producer, made a guest appearance a short while ago that might give you some insight as to her editorial approach and purview of producing SOF. And I find that, Kate being my supervisor, it’s continually interesting reading or hearing her talk about the show with other people. A guy can learn a lot! (And, no, I’m not being sycophantic here. *grin*)
Response to “The Ethics of Aid”
Krista Tippett, Host
I’ve been fascinated by the responses that have come in to our program with Binyavanga Wainaina. They’ve come in part from other Africans and from current and former NGOs, missionaries, and Peace Corps volunteers. This felt like a huge and daunting, yet pressing, subject to open up. And that’s clearly what we’ve done — not started a conversation but opened it a little wider; the questions and concerns he articulated are present in many closest to this work.
I’m especially intrigued, as well, by one e-mail we received from New Orleans, drawing parallels between aid to post-Katrina New Orleans and aid to Africa. It is a stunning reflection on how, even domestically, the dramatic gesture is deceptively satisfying. Most of all I’m pleased that so many found Binyavanga Wainaina’s insights emboldening, as I did. His hard truth-telling — even his satire — is the opposite of a call to cynicism. It is a call to attentiveness to the deeper truth of ourselves and the other.
