Reluctant Listening

Remembering is hard. Knowing what to do and what to say is hard. Of the blizzard of coverage available in the run-up to 9/11, NCPR is using about one-tenth. From last week's Listening Post, the number of people who toured Dark Island's castle outnumbered those who wanted info about 9/11 coverage by 4-1. Our ncpr.org front-page invitation to share stories of post-9/11 change has yet to garner a single reply after two days. People approach the anniversary with great reluctance; it seems to come too soon. Jim Lehrer, appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, decried the wall-to-wall media attention and said we should commemorate the day "very quietly." NCPR will be on the air, trying to find its place between the brass bands and the silence.