Listener Feedback

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Friday, February 23rd. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next, listener feedback for the month of February. You sent lots of email this month, and as usual we can’t include everything that comes in. But we’re grateful for all of it, and we do read it all.

So let’s begin with corrections.

MAST: February 8th we reported on Iran’s proxy war against America and misidentified the initialism IRGC.

IRGC stands for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

BROWN: February 12th, History book, the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963.

We were wrong about the details of the case against Evers’s killer, Byron De La Beckwith. The prosecution ended with a mistrial which then allowed a retrial 30 years later in which he was tried and convicted. We’ve corrected the segment and transcript to reflect that.

MAST: One more correction, our closing scripture reading on the 19th of February from Luke chapter 10: Jesus’ conversation with the rich young ruler. We ended up flipping the order of who was addressing whom—putting the ruler’s words into Jesus’ mouth and vice-versa.

BROWN: Now for some listener feedback. Scott Bahr of Livonia, Michigan, appreciated our coverage of former President Donald Trump’s recent case before the Supreme Court:

BAHR: Legal Docket has long been one of my favorite segments of the program each week and your segment on the Trump eligibility issues in Colorado on February 12th really exemplifies what makes this segment so great. The detail, the intermingling of the recordings from the Supreme Court, arguments with the explanations, just really well laid out. Thanks so much for keeping us all informed and teaching us a lot about the Supreme Court and the process. Well done.

BROWN: Fred Anson of Lake Forest, California agrees. He wrote in with this encouragement:

“Biblical AND objective just as you promise in your Mission Statement tagline. THIS is why we listen to WORLD first.”

MAST: Next, something new this month. Listener Marjorie Kraus wrote about the audio postcard from one of our grads from WJI Europe about her visit to an Italian fishing village. She says it was refreshing to get a glimpse into a very different culture. And she hopes to hear more features like it in the future.

BROWN: Speaking of new voices, Lindsay, we got some feedback calling for a response. “Tell us more about this new voice! This Lindsay Mast, she’s great! But who is she?!”

Well, I think you’re great and I know who you are. And I think one thing listeners ought to know is that Lindsay is working with our team on a new weekend edition of The World and Everything in It. We’re hoping to release it sometime this fall.

But Lindsay, tell a little more about yourself.

MAST: Well, I went through the World Journalism Institute mid career course last Spring and started working for WORLD this past summer on one of our kids news products, but moved over to radio in January, and am really looking forward to the weekend program. I do have a TV background, but I came to the podcast as a fan of it first and foremost—I found it while looking for Christ-honoring news for myself. So to get to work on it in this capacity is really exciting for me. I don’t take being trusted to deliver news and information lightly, and I look forward to developing a relationship with you as listeners. And I really can’t wait to share with you everything that we’re working on to make a great place for you to land on the weekends.

BROWN: Well, it’s not too late to say: “welcome aboard!”

MAST: Thank you! One more bit of listener feedback this morning. Jason Woodard from Battle Creek, Michigan, has been listening since the very beginning:

WOODARD: I listened on February 16th to John Stonestreet’s Culture Friday—one of my favorite sections every week—and he talked about the love of animals, or maybe the excessive love of animals. That absolutely needs to be said especially to those of us in the church. Really appreciate how he said it. As always he’s very careful about how he says things, but the way that animals are elevated above humans sometimes in our culture and I see that even at times inside of the church. And it’s a problem. And I appreciate him saying it and I want to let him know that and let you guys know that. Thank you for having him on there each week and for all the other work that you do.

MAST: Thanks to everyone who wrote and called in this month. We’re so thankful that you listen, and take the time to provide thoughtful feedback.

BROWN: If you have comments to share with us you can send them to editor@wng.org. And if you’re writing, would you consider reading your comment and making an audio file attachment? You can do that or you can phone it in at 202-709-9595.

And that’s this month’s Listener Feedback!

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