Len Harrison expecting a phone call from NPR West

by Bill Carpenter (wcarpent [at] ccsf.edu)

Thu, Mar 22, 2007 9:04AM

Len Harrison, Josh Wolf's dad, and Steve Rhodes await the arrival of Jim Bennett, who will engineer the SF end of the phone conversation with NPR West in Culver City.

Jim records Len's end of the conversation in SF. Later he sends that via the internet to NPR West. There NPR combines it with their end of the conversation. Result: a "face-to-face" conversation with no telephone.audio.distortion.

If you hear it on NPR in the next day or so, please "Add a Comment" here telling us what program it was so we may link to it for everyone.

For more information: http://www.joshwolf.net/blog/

§Expecting a Call from NPR

by Bill Carpenter

Thu, Mar 22, 2007 9:04AM

§Expecting a Call from NPR

by Bill Carpenter

Thu, Mar 22, 2007 9:04AM

§double-ender

by Mike Rafon

Thu, Mar 22, 2007 11:50AM

That is a neat trick many radio producers use. In radio parlance, its a "double-ender."

§here's the link to the audio (i think)

by meddle

Thu, Mar 22, 2007 2:46PM

i couldn't get it to work myself, but boingboing said it works *and* i'm not the most tech-savvy person in the bay:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9075941

§it definitely works

by meddle

Thu, Mar 22, 2007 2:57PM

and i thought len did a great job.

one thought to offer for next time -- when the guy asked, "doesn't josh have incriminating evidence on his tapes?" (i'm totally paraphrasing that, btw), instead of responding "no he doesn't," i think a more powerful response would be to invoke the right to privacy/free press.

if a reporter does not want to disclose something, they don't have to. that's part of a free press. whether josh has footage of a cop getting hurt, or a car getting damaged, or saddaam hussein hiding weapons of mass destruction is immaterial. what is at issue here is whether or not george bush owns your personal videos or journals. i say, "no."

this isn't an issue where a cia agent's identity has been leaked to a reporter, breaking federal law, and the reporter needs to point out who did it. in this case the feds are on a fishing expedition and we as free people have a right not to participate.

/easier typed than said in the moment, of course. :-)
//again, well done, mr harrison

§MP3 version of the 3.5 minute interview

by bill

Thu, Mar 22, 2007 3:15PM

Listen now: