Listener Feedback

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, November 22nd. 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. Time now for Listener Feedback. We begin with a few of corrections:

Two days ago, we highlighted the story of a missionary family in Mozambique and the unjust imprisonment of missionary pilot Ryan Koher. In the telling of that story we got a date wrong, saying he was placed in solitary confinement in 2023, when in fact it was 2022.

Also this week twice we misspoke the age of murder victim Laken Riley, saying she was 26. She lived a little over a month past her 22nd birthday.

BROWN: Listener Russ Stevens from North Carolina had this comment on our review last week of the play, The Horse and His Boy.

RUSS STEVENS: Bekah McCallum did an excellent review of the Horse and His Boy, with one exception. She commented that Logo's Theater cornered the market on Christian theater excellence. I certainly don't want to demean the production she reviewed, but before she makes such a sweeping statement, she needs to go see one of the productions by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts. They are … right up there with almost anything else I've seen. Thanks for the great reviews.

Well, thank you and we have indeed reviewed productions from the Fellowship for the Performing Arts and—agreed!—they are very good.

EICHER: Now for some feedback on the return of Doubletake. And, first we need to acknowledge we had to fix a production problem ,and the repaired episode is online, but this listener, despite the glitch, said she was enthusiastic about the topic.

SARAH: Hi! My name is Sarah [undistinguishable] and…I really enjoyed it. And I’m glad that WORLD is taking a look at the evils of feminism. Feminism is poison and so glad you’re talking about that.

Next, Dale Fenwick from beautiful Mount Dora, Florida, had this feedback after our recent story on the pro-life ballot initiative approved in Nebraska that protects the unborn after the first trimester.

DALE FENWICK: I have to agree with the activists there…in really not being fully supportive…of the 12 week strategy to put that in their constitution. And here’s the reason. Leah says in the article that since many abortions are performed during the first trimester. He was opposed to this. Well, that’s right… when you realize 94% happened during the first trimester that means what Nebraska did was successfully save 6% of the babies. Now obviously 6% is better than 0%, but it’s a long way from even say 50% cuz I believe less than 50% abortions happen during the first 6 weeks, which is the cutoff here in Florida. Other than that keep up the good work. I really appreciate it. Thanks very much.

BROWN: Dan Bullock from Lafayette, Indiana, was one of many listeners who were disappointed with a detail we left out of a story about presidential candidate concession speeches.

DAN BULLOCK: I agree that the concession speech is a very important part of our country and our democracy and transition of power, but it was disappointed that you guys didn’t kind of talk about the elephant in the room…that that in 2020 and Donald Trump did not concede and I think that was really been a black mark on him and just wish you guys would have mentioned it. Thank you very much. Bye.

EICHER: This listener was one among many, with some going much further, suggesting we were trying to rewrite history or hide facts. Well, at the risk of sounding defensive, we did consider including in the story Trump’s non-concession, but concluded that if we were going to mention it, we’d need to spend time on the reasons why. But that wasn’t the purpose of the piece.

What we should’ve done, and what we wish in retrospect we had done was make reference to it in the setup. I know right where we could’ve put it and made everybody happy. Missed opportunity. Sorry about that, but there’s no rewriting history, and we’d never do that.

BROWN: Finally today, many listeners called and wrote in to thank us for the election week scriptures and prayers. This comment is characteristic of the many messages we received.

Hi, this is Steven Hubsher. I want to thank you for putting together the the prayers for the election. I'm still getting caught up listening to them. But they've really been helpful to me and I was wondering if you would consider putting all of them together in a single file and releasing them perhaps on a Saturday,, so we could download them and just listen to them continue it more just as one stream. And that would be my request. Well, thank you. God bless you guys. Bye bye.

We’ve got some good news for all of you who made similar requests. Our producer is putting them together into one extended segment and we’ll release it this weekend on your program feed and our website. We’ll also include a text version of all the submissions. Thanks for the suggestion.

EICHER: And thanks to everyone who wrote and called this month. We’re grateful for the time you give to listen each day and for your feedback.

If you have a comment to share you can email editor@wng.org. You can include an audio file attachment to your email and we’ll consider it for air. You can even phone it in at 202-709-9595.

And that’s this month’s Listener Feedback!

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