Live from UD, it’s the Tony Snow Show

6:01 p.m., Sept. 16, 2004--The University of Delaware will host The Tony Snow Show, a nationally syndicated Fox News radio show, from 9 a.m.-noon, Wednesday, Sept. 22, in Mitchell Hall.

The live show, which is free and open to the public, will include questions and comments from UD students, faculty and other persons in the audience, as well as telephone calls.

The UD show is part of a series of broadcasts the show is conducting from college campuses, aimed at encouraging political dialog in this election year. The show is also traveling to the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University and the University of Maryland at College Park.

“We’ll involve the audience as much as possible,” Tony Snow, a former newspaper reporter and White House speechwriting director who started the show last March, said. “You want to be topical, so, whatever is going to be leading the news, whatever the key issues come next Wednesday, that’s what we’re going to talk about.”

Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

“Talk radio is part of a series of new mediums that are beginning to shake up the journalism world,” Snow said. “Blogging tends to work pretty well with talk radio because both are trying to keep people current on issues. They are trying to stir the pot in terms of the debate. They are trying to be intellectually daring and at the same time factually interesting. Radio, unlike blogging and television, is something that allows people to express themselves in real time.”

Snow also is featured on Weekend Live with Tony Snow on the Fox News Channel. He served as the host of Fox News Sunday from 1996 to 2003. Snow also wrote a syndicated newspaper column, which appeared in more than 200 papers across the nation, from 1993 to 2002.

Snow had a long career in newspapers, dating back to 1979. He worked at The Greensboro Record, The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, The Daily Press (Newport News, Va.), The Detroit News and The Washington Times. He took a two-year break from journalism to work in the administration of President George H.W. Bush, where he served first as the White House speechwriting director and later became deputy assistant to the president for media affairs.

Snow has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and did graduate work in philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago. He also has worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in North Carolina, taught physics and East African geography in Kenya and has done substitute teaching in a variety of subjects, from calculus to seventh-grade art.

An avid musician, Snow has played with some rock ‘n’ roll legends and belongs to a cover band, Beats Workin’, which features professionals from the Washington area. Snow and his wife, Jill, were married in 1987. They have three children and several pets, including a cat, three dogs and three guinea pigs.

Article by Martin Mbugua

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