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All across the country communities are struggling to find the right balance between new development and preserving the farms and natural areas surrounding them. In some cases, local residents feel as though they're fighting big business to preserve their community's way of life.
This very issue boiled over recently in Suttons Bay, Michigan when the crowing of a farmers roosters became a source of annoyance at a neighboring condominium developement.
Orignially producer for Interlochen Public Radio and the Great Lakes Radio Consortium.
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All across the country communities are struggling to find the right balance between new development and preserving the farms and natural areas surrounding them. In some cases, local residents feel as though they're fighting big business to preserve their community's way of life. This very issue boiled over recently in Suttons Bay, Michigan when the crowing of a farmers roosters became a source of annoyance at a neighboring condominium developement. Orignially producer for Interlochen Public Radio and the Great Lakes Radio Consortium.
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Review of Rooster Fights SprawlGreat use of environmental sound. Gives me pause to look at all the urban farms in my area being encroached by development. Might be a good think for the coming election?? |
Broadcast History
originally broadcast in April of 2006 on Interlochen Public Radio and the Great Lakes Radio Consortium
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- Lehner's Chickens (chickens.jpg)
- Local bumper stickers (bumper.jpg)
John Biewen
Posted on August 12, 2006 at 11:11 AM | Permalink
Review of Roosters vs. Developers
Here's a news feature telling a man-bites-rooster story. A farmer whose family has been raising chickens in this spot for generations suddenly finds himself the target of people in new nearby housing developments who want to stop his roosters from crowing. Sounds like a story with pretty good radio potential.
The piece is well-written and lays out the issues, and of course we get to hear some well-mic'd roosters. But the feature could have been livelier with a bit more effort. We don't hear from anybody who actually objects to the squawking birds. Telling us that many locals have passionately defended the farmer and that the rooster issue has become the hot topic at local barber shops and coffee houses, the reporter sets us up to expect tape. "Most people just shake their head and laugh," says the narrator. "Others are more animated." But do we hear those animated folks? Nope.