[Bikies] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Thank You For Your Comment

[India Rose Viola]

Let's all pause, take a breath and think of how to make something positive come 
out of this stinky crap.  This is the first time many of us have been made 
aware of the WJJO podcast "joke" about killing cyclists, and I think we are 
completely justified in our outrage.  That said, it seems that Randy at WJJO is 
willing to have a dialogue and to learn from this unfortunate choice in 
programming that was made a year ago.  -India

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India Viola 
Stretton Lab 
Zoology Research Bldg. 
1117 W. Johnson St. 
Madison, WI 53706 
608.262.3336 
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"How can we learn from our mistakes if we don't first acknowledge them?" 
-Anonymous 

"We exist in the bacterial world, not bacteria in ours" -Stuart Levy

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Thank you for hearing me out.  That is all I ask.  The debate has been quite an education for me.  Randy India Rose Viola wrote: This is the response I got from WJJO just minutes after sending them my message.  I think Randy has some valid points (and some bogus ones) and I will respond when I have a few extra moments to be careful, thoughtful, and concise. I'm glad this is being addressed. -India *********************** India Viola Stretton Lab Zoology Research Bldg. 1117 W. Johnson St. Madison, WI 53706 608.262.3336 *********************** "How can we learn from our mistakes if we don't first acknowledge them?" -Anonymous "We exist in the bacterial world, not bacteria in ours" -Stuart Levy Subject: Thank You For Your Comment From: Randy Hawke <randy.ha...@wjjo.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:12:21 -0500 To: irvi...@wisc.edu To: irvi...@wisc.edu I am the Program Director for WJJO Madison.  I want to you know the entire story.  The bit posted online is from last year.  It was not aired yesterday.  It was dealt with at that time and never aired again.  I apologize for leaving it posted on the podcast site.  I did not pull it at the time because it felt like I would be trying to hide from the issue and I am not.  It has since been pulled.  We have changed 50% of the morning team since then.  They actually had nothing to do with this pit.  It is from last year.  How could I possibly take action on those people for the bit? Our General Manager and President is Tom Walker.  His Father ran this company until he passed away a few years ago at 82.  It has been run by a Walker since it was founded over 50 years ago.  Tom's sister, Mr Walker's daughter was killed while riding her bike on university ave in Madison.  He was listening this morning.  He feels both sides were represented.  Forward that to your organization.  I watched this morning as he received these misinformed e-mails accusing him of supporting what took his sisters life.  I have been a BMX and Mountain Bike racer for 20 years.  I am on the trails of Madison all the time with my two children in the Burley.  I feel your pain.  However there are a lot of BAD cyclist out there.  It is a fact.  They do us no good.  I do feel both sides have being were discussed.  Unfortunately I looked at the fifteen txt responses to the studio during the topic and ALL OF THEM were anti cyclist.  These people have a right to there opinion and their opinion is cyclist are a problem.  Not allowing them to discuss it, does not change that fact. Thank you for hearing me out.    Respectfully, Randy Hawke WJJO PD

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