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Before she goes to bed, Anne Chacon puts a gas mask on her face. "The air gets so bad in here at night that it really hurts to breathe," she said. Chacon lives next to the Kipp factory. Chacon's gas mask protects most of these chemicals. "If I didn't have these I probably couldn't sleep at all." Chacon and other residents under the group Clean Air Madison are challenging Kipp and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in court. This half hour episode produced for WORT examines the story of the residents downwind of Kipp, and how they are fighting the pollution.
(audio from updated Dec 27, 2004 broadcast)
P.S. This is my first body of work of this length. I decided to post it in hopes of finding constructive criticism. I am happy that PRNDI awarded the show best documentary, but don't hesitate so suggest ways this piece could improve.
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Before she goes to bed, Anne Chacon puts a gas mask on her face. "The air gets so bad in here at night that it really hurts to breathe," she said. Chacon lives next to the Kipp factory. Chacon's gas mask protects most of these chemicals. "If I didn't have these I probably couldn't sleep at all." Chacon and other residents under the group Clean Air Madison are challenging Kipp and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in court. This half hour episode produced for WORT examines the story of the residents downwind of Kipp, and how they are fighting the pollution. (audio from updated Dec 27, 2004 broadcast) P.S. This is my first body of work of this length. I decided to post it in hopes of finding constructive criticism. I am happy that PRNDI awarded the show best documentary, but don't hesitate so suggest ways this piece could improve.
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Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on November 27, 2004 at 11:26 AM | Permalink
Review of Madison Kipp - The Struggle for Clean Air
The reporting is clear and lucid. The tone is casual, almost jaunty in some places, which is a refreshing change from a good many news stories that often veer more towards the authoritarian-toned. It’s pretty even-handed and the use of musical scoring is quite good. The thing is, that in listening to the story—a story of this length-- an expectation is created in which you want the issue to transcend the local level and go all the way up the ladder to the policy makers and offer a bigger picture and context. In not being able to speak with the other side—the factory owners, etc, the piece never becomes a story in the most rich and compelling sense of the word. But what is here—the yearning of the townspeople for simple justice, the imagery their struggle takes (having to sleep in gas masks), and the implicit understanding the townspeople have of the economic realities they are facing—is all very moving and worth hearing. This could fit in with programming about pollution and the environment.