7/29/2005 10:32:00 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Teddy Bart's Roundtable has wound up its final production in its most current form. Once some legal issues are worked out, there is hope that the show can be revived and once again provide a forum for insight lacking in most areas, and most political venues. This email from Bill Fletcher has some ideas to shorten the lag time. I reprint it in full

To Friends and Supporters of The Round Table and The Public Forum:

Recently it was announced that Teddy Bart’s Round Table would cease production as part of The Public Forum. This decision was made by five members of the Board of Directors of The Public Forum, the non-for-profit entity that was set up a few years ago to build a statewide television network around the radio show.


This decision by The Public Forum board requires Teddy and Karlen to wind down the program … for now.

I, along with several other regular guests of The Round Table, are working to help during this transition and to help plan for the future. I am a Democratic political consultant but this is a bi-partisan effort. Jon Crisp, a businessman and Chairman of the Davidson County Republican Party, and Chip Saltsman, a businessman and former Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, have agreed to help as have many others who regularly appear on the program.

The five members of The Public Forum board who voted to terminate the program have resigned, effective August 15th. After that time, all of us who support The Round Table will be free to dig in and do our part to revive the show.

There are two specific things I would like to ask you to do depending on how you want to help:

1. Go to www.thepublicforum.org and sign up for The Forum File so you can be kept up to date. Also encourage others to sign up for the email update.

2. If you want to contribute time, talent or money for the future, send me an email so I can keep up with you. Email me at fletcher@frcconsulting.biz .

Although I am not speaking for Teddy and Karlen, I am convinced that The Round Table will be back on the air at some point as it has been for more than 20 years. Our community has benefited greatly from the civil, public-spirited discussion of issues of the day on The Round Table. It is easy to take such an important part of our community for granted. Perhaps the show will continue as a not-for-profit entity. Perhaps The Round Table will return to the commercial airwaves. In any case, it is time for each of us to stand up and be counted.

Forward this message to others in your circle and let’s encourage those in our community to rally around our friends. Our community and our state needs the civil public discourse offered by The Round Table now more than ever.

Margaret Mead, the noted American anthropologist and writer, said: A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Join us now.

Fletch

Forward it on.

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