The Beat - Host Script

HOST: YEE-HAW…IF THAT DOESN’T CLUE YOU IN AS TO WHERE WE ARE. MAYBE THIS WILL. (RODEO SOUNDS )
IN THE LONE STAR STATE FOR THE 15TH ANNUAL ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISM ASSOCIATION, I’M EDELUISA PANGGAT AND THIS IS A STUDENT RADIO PROJECT, THE BEAT.

DALLAS IS THE PERFECT PLACE TO HOST THE CONVENTION. WITH OVER 15 DIFFERENT ASIAN ETHNIC GROUPS, THE STATE OF TEXAS RANKS FOURTH IN THE NATION IN ASIAN POPULATION. ASIAN AMERICANS BEGAN ARRIVING IN DALLAS IN THE MID 1800S. NOW, THEY’RE DOCTORS, TEACHERS, AND FOOD SERVERS. THERE’S EVEN AN ASIAN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER.
WE’VE SPENT THE PAST WEEK EXPLORING THE CITY, LEARNING ABOUT RADIO JOURNALISM AND REPORTING ON THE VARIOUS ISSUES THE ASIAN COMMUNITY IS FACING. SO STAY WITH US.
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PICTURE THE OLD WEST. YOU MAY SEE JOHN WAYNE… ROY ROGERS… CLINT EASTWOOD. BUT SOME OF THE STORIES OF THE WEST ARE STILL BEING WRITTEN. BY COWBOYS LIKE CLEO HEARN. HEARN AND HIS FOUR SONS – ALL AFRICAN AMERICAN COWBOYS – HAVE DEDICATED THEMSELVES TO THE RODEO TRADITION. THEY’VE FOUNDED AN ORGANIZATION TO CARRY ON ANOTHER TRADITION – THAT OF THE NON-WHITE COWBOY. IT’S CALLED COWBOYS OF COLOR. THE BEAT’S BEN CALHOUN REPORTS FROM DALLAS.
[BEN]
HOST: FOR MORE ON COWBOYS OF COLOR, YOU CAN VISIT THEIR WEBSITE AT WWW.COWBOYSOFCOLOR.ORG.

HOST: ON SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001, LIVES CHANGED DRAMATICALLY, ESPECIALLY THOSE COMMUNITIES NEAR THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. NEW YORK CITY’S CHINATOWN, KNOWN FOR ITS RESTAURANTS AND GIFT SHOPS, HAS FELT THE EFFECTS. FROM NEW YORK, THE BEAT’S HEATHER OPLINGER REPORTS.
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HOST: NEW YORK’S CHINATOWN WAS HARD HIT. 15-HUNDRED MILES AWAY, THE ASIAN COMMUNITY IN DALLAS ALSO FEELS THE EFFECTS. RICHARDSON IS A SUBURB OF DALLAS, AND IS HOME TO MANY ASIAN BUSINESSES. THERE, WE TALKED TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THEM.
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HOST: THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY ISN’T THE ONLY GROUP WAITING THINGS OUT. MORE THAN 500 THOUSAND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE ADMITTED TO AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES EVERY YEAR…THIS FROM THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, OR I-N-S. THESE STUDENTS COME HERE WITH HOPES OF LANDING A DEGREE AND A HIGH-PAYING JOB. BUT WITH THE SEPTEMBER 11TH ATTACKS AND THE ONGOING ECONOMIC RECESSION, THE DREAMS THESE STUDENTS COME WITH ARE IN JEOPARDY.
THE BEAT’S JYOTSNA NATARAJAN REPORTS ON THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
[JYOTSNA]

HOST: IN 1953, AFTER THE END OF THE KOREAN WAR, 200-THOUSAND SOUTH KOREAN CHILDREN WERE ORPHANED OR SEPARATED FROM THEIR PARENTS. THEY WERE PUT UP FOR ADOPTION, AND 150-THOUSAND OF THEM ENDED UP IN AMERICAN HOMES. THIS TREND CONTINUED UNTIL THE NINETEEN EIGHTIES….AND TO THIS DAY, SOUTH KOREANS REMAIN THE LARGEST GROUP OF ADOPTEES IN THE COUNTRY. THE BEAT’S HAE-OK MILLER WAS BORN IN KOREA AND ADOPTED BY A JEWISH ARGENTINE COUPLE IN 1981. SEVEN YEARS LATER, HER PARENTS ADOPTED ANOTHER KOREAN GIRL. MILLER SPEAKS FLUENT SPANISH AND TRAVELS OFTEN TO LATIN AMERICA. AT 22, SHE NOW WANTS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HER KOREAN HERITAGE, A PART OF HER PAST SHE WAS NEVER INTERESTED IN BEFORE.
[HAE-OK]
HOST: HAE-OK MILLER IS A REPORTER FOR THE BEAT.

THAT’S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF THE BEAT. WE’VE HAD A GREAT TIME HERE IN DALLAS. JOIN US AGAIN NEXT YEAR FOR THE AAJA CONVENTION IN SAN DIEGO. THE BEAT IS A PRODUCTION OF AAJA AND NPR’S NEXT GENERATION RADIO. THE BEAT REPORTERS ARE BEN CALHOUN, HAE-OK MILLER, JYOTSNA NATARAJAN, AND HEATHER OPLINGER.
OUR MENTORS DEEPA DONDE OF LATINO USA, TOM KRYMKOWSKI OF THE WORLD, REKHA MURTHY AND CHARLES THOMPSON, BOTH FROM NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO. OUR PROJECT DIRECTOR IS WILMA CONSUL OF NPR. WE’D LIKE TO THANK NEXT GENERATION RADIO’S DOUG MITCHELL, NPR’S WEBMASTER RACHEL BASOFIN, AAJA’S BRANDON SUGIYAMA AND K-E-R-A’S NEWS DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT STATION MANAGER YOLETTE GARCIA. FOR THE BEAT, I’M EDELUISA PANGGAT.
Y’ALL COME BACK NOW, HEAR?