News from Neptune
Public Affairs
This program has no Airshifters.
- Saturday 10-11am
News from Neptune is an hour of discussion of the news of the week and its coverage by the media, co-hosted by Carl Estabrook and Paul Mueth. The show is named in honor of Noam Chomsky, who said,
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
Mueth and Estabrook began News from Neptune from a shared interest in Chomsky's account of U.S politics. It has been on WEFT on Saturday mornings for three U.S. presidential administrations. The first shows covered Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. In those years Sandra Ahten, Jamie Hutchinson and Scott Peters have on occasion been a third co-host.
William Gillespie comments, "They have occasional guests (e.g., Alan Sokal, New York Times reporter Jo Thomas) and have occasionally taken on-air phone calls, but the [co-hosts] -- remembering that a bore is someone who talks when you want to -- fight boredom by preferring the sound of their own voices."
Archived shows, in free software formats, are available on our website. News from Neptune is produced by Dr. No, Jeff Nicholson-Owens. Eric Sizemore is Research Director. William Gillespie did the opening.