Shawn Williams Is, As Always, Good For Listening on National Public Radio

Last night I took a shower with Shawn Williams of Dallas South -- no, wait, that did not come out right. Let me rephrase: Last night at 9, KERA-FM (90.1) got around to airing Wednesday's episode of National Public Radio's News & Notes, during which Williams joined host Farai Chideya...

By Robert Wilonsky

July 3, 2008

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Last night I took a shower with Shawn Williams of Dallas South -- no, wait, that did not come out right. Let me rephrase: Last night at 9, KERA-FM (90.1) got around to airing Wednesday's episode of National Public Radio's News & Notes, during which Williams joined host Farai Chideya and other bloggers to talk fairness doctrine and Ralph Nader and "white guilt" and Barack Obama. So happens I was in the shower while listening to the radio. --Robert Wilonsky

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