Duquesne U. Interferes with Public Radio Affiliate

I  was working from home today, so I didn’t listen to the news programming on WDUQ as I usually do on the way home from work. WDUQ is the flagship NPR affiliate in Pittsburgh, broadcasting from the campus of Duquesne University. When my partner arrived home, though, he was absolutely livid because he had heard on his drive home that WDUQ had—at the direction of Duquesne University—refused to continue to accept underwriting support from Planned Parenthood. Duquesne is a Catholic university and apparently objects to the work of Planned Parenthood. Needless to say, we immediately wrote to cancel our membership in the station in protest of this decision. To my mind, public radio ceases to seem very “public” when a Catholic university dictates what can be aired in order to ensure that the message advances its own views.   For more on these events and how to take action, you can visit the Planned Parenthood web site here.

-Anthony C. Infanti