Listener Feedback

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, August 26th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Before we get to listener feedback for August—August! The summer’s flying by, isn’t it?!

BROWN: I know!!!

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Well, on to Listener Feedback. And we begin with a few corrections.

Listener Jeff Palomino pointed out that in our August 17th newscast we reported that a Minuteman III launched from Vandenberg Air Force base. He wrote to remind us that Vandenberg is no longer an air-force base, it was renamed just last year Vandenberg Space Force base.

BROWN: On August 11th we spoke with legal-affairs reporter Steve West about a religious liberty case in Washington state. We reported that a Christian university had sued the state for investigating its stance on marriage and sexuality.

But we went through the whole segment without naming the school. Rick Franklin lives in Gresham, Oregon, and he called in to make sure you know what school we were talking about.

RICK FRANKLIN: I'm an alumnus of that school, and I'm thankful for their continued adherence to scriptural views of marriage and sexuality. And some of your listeners, especially parents considering higher education options for their high school children would be interested to know that the name of the school is Seattle Pacific University. Thanks for all you do. I listen every day and love the podcast.

EICHER: Thanks Rick!

One more—a mispronunciation, and that happens sometimes. On August 5th we referred to the drug PAX-lu-vid but mistakenly pronounced it PAX-lu-void. It’s PAX-lu-vid and I hope I don’t need any of it. It’s an antiviral for Covid. Listener and physician Kenneth Cole heard the mispronunciation and emailed us right away. So Paul Butler recorded a quick correction and uploaded the new segment to the podcast feed—meaning some listeners heard the mistake, some didn’t—and now with the correction everyone has.

BROWN: Next a couple of additions. Jennifer Mazzella wrote in about our newscast coverage of the death of Indiana congresswoman Jackie Walorski. She died early this month in a car crash. And in the short news story we mentioned only the congresswoman’s name and not the two staff members who died with her. One of them Zachery Potts and the other Emma Thomson, a woman our listener knew from church.

EICHER: I’ll read some of our listener’s letter:

Emma was only 28, but she spent her life well for Christ in the rocky soil of Capitol Hill. I know that she is in the presence of her dear Savior, but we who are left behind will miss her so much. I know not every death can be mentioned on a podcast, but if you were going to mention the Congresswoman, it wouldn’t have taken long to have mentioned the names of the others.

Jennifer, we are sorry for your loss and our oversight. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of Jackie Walorski, Emma Thomson, and Zachery Potts.

BROWN: Another addition, this time regarding our profile of the breast milk bank in Chicago’s northern suburbs. Longtime listener and reader Rebecca Payne called in with this reminder:

REBECCA PAYNE: Hi, let me start by saying thanks for your coverage of the impact of the formula crisis on breast milk donation, particularly in a way it's impacted a rare disease family with necrotizing colitis. I also just wanted to ask why there's been no coverage of the fact that this so-called “infant formula shortage” is actually impacting 1000s of Americans that are older children and adults who still rely on formula. Thanks for the time to listen to the message and all you do.

EICHER: Rebecca, thanks for calling attention to this overlooked aspect of the formula shortage. We’ve referred to the crisis on this program as an “infant formula shortage” for two reasons: First, most of the formula is labeled and sold as “infant formula.” Second, the majority of families affected by the shortage are parents with infants. Having said that, after your message we’ve talked about this as an editorial staff and we’ve decided to refer to it more frequently as simply a “formula shortage”—to reflect the challenges older children and adults are facing as well.

One more comment today. Carrie Garrison also sent us a voice memo about a story by Leah Johansen:

CARRIE GARRISON: Thank you for your story about donor breast milk. I bawled all the way through, as I currently have an infant son on donor breast milk. It was just wonderful to hear how simple acts can help the helpless as we are called to do and how women have been uniquely designed in some ways to help those helpless. Thank you for showing what is a beautiful thing during a hard time for a lot of moms.

BROWN: Well that’s it for this month’s Listener Feedback. Thanks to all our listeners who wrote and called. If you have comments to share with us you can send them to editor@wng.org. And if you’re writing, would you mind taking a moment and recording your comments on your phone and send us the digital file? To make it easier, we’ve posted instructions on how to use your phone to make a recording. Just visit: wng.org/podcasts.

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