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Alec Baldwin's mission: kill public radio

Michigan Public | By Mark Brush
Published October 25, 2010 at 3:47 PM EDT
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Alec Baldwin

You may have heard Alec Baldwin's plea during recent public radio pledge drives. He has a simple message for listeners:

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-931050.mp3

Baldwin's other promos include reassigning Terry Gross to "Wine Fancy," making Scott Simon a traffic reporter, and putting Ira Glass on a Spanish pop station.
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Mark Brush
Mark Brush was the station's Digital Media Director. He succumbed to a year-long battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, in March 2018. He was 49 years old.
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