Fuad Gritla, the morning host on 100.7 FM, knows his listeners in
Libya's capital, Tripoli, are grouchy, and he's trying to help.
Tripoli
has not witnessed the change that many had hoped it would see a year
after Gaddafi's fall Abigail Hauslohner observed in her article in the Washington Post.
Political progress has been downright sluggish. There are lots of
weapons and little security. And people are getting more and more
anxious.
"The Libyan people are very cranky, so we're trying to
cheer them up in the morning," Gritla said, turning the dial up on a
track from the Bee Gees. "Our slogan is 'Your voice and your voice
only.' We try to give people what they want."
Radio Zone 100.7 is
just one of some two dozen new radio stations to hit Tripoli's airwaves
since the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's fall. And despite all the
doom and gloom, residents say it's just one indicator that postwar
Tripoli is not actually as bad as it may appear.
http://www.tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=9499
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