I just got off the phone with the programing director for one of Houston's main "activist" radio stations. We were discussing broadcasting public service announcements for my upcoming classes in Edible Wild Plants and also Practical Emergency Preparedness at the Houston Arboretum. She hated the idea of an emergency preparedness class. According to her "preparedness doesn't sell" and it makes a lousy presentation/class. In her thirty years of radio she has come to the conclusion that people DO NOT want to be reminded that things can go wrong. They do not want their illusion of safety ruined. She admitted she was without power for five days after hurricane Ike, had a miserable time and didn't know what to do...but she's not interested in learning what to do for next time!! Nor does she think anyone else wants to learn, either.

It boggles my mind...

-Blast, understanding Doug Ritter's pain a bit more
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