WVIZ/PBS ideastream®: Feagler & Friends
Emmy Award-winning Feagler & Friends is a lively, weekly half-hour television discussion of local and national issues impacting lives in Northeast Ohio. Hosted by award-winning journalist and former Plain Dealer columnist, Dick Feagler, Feagler & Friends explores the various issues behind today's news. With a changing ensemble of "friends" ranging from journalists to community and political leaders, Feagler & Friends takes on issues from many different perspectives. Always entertaining and never boring, Feagler & Friends is the program for people "in the know" in Northeast Ohio.
Feagler & Friends airs:
WVIZ/PBS: Fridays - 8:30 PM, Sundays - 11:30 AM
The Ohio Channel: Mondays - 1:30 PM | 9:30 PM, Tuesdays - 5:30 AM
Friday, February 18, 2005
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Newsmaker 1: Craig Foltin, Mayor of Lorain. The city west of Cleveland announced plans this week for a downtown casino. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe would build and operate the casino, to be located on what used to be a terminal where Great Lakes freighters off-loaded taconite pellets used by the steel industry. All that remains is getting state and possibly federal approval, but the past has proved those can be devilish details. The Great Lakes Historical Society also plans to build a museum on the site.
Newsmaker 2: George McNulty, executive director, USO Northern Ohio. Thousands of US troops are still in the Middle East, patrolling Iraq and Afghanistan. But they’re getting a touch of home and a big hug from northeast Ohio. The local USO routinely packs and ships thousands of items to the troops overseas and does it with an all-volunteer work force. We’ll tell the organization’s story.
Newsmaker 3: Mark Kmetzko, Cleveland Media Project: The Norman Lear Center at University of Southern California released a study this week showing if a candidate for local office wanted to get on TV he or she would have been well advised to crash a car into a tree or, as an option, buy commercial time. Bottom line: the study says TV’s devoted far more time to police blotter stuff than to the stuff of democracy. A local researcher did a similar study of Cleveland news operations during the last campaign and came up with remarkably similar results.
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