Natl Pub Radio Show Will Cover Only Detroit & rest of Middle America

And it's the staff pick today on Kickstarter!
http://kck.st/1cl8971

I got the idea for this show while I was reporting at WDET and then for NPR as the Midwest Correspondent. I love Detroit and I hope Detroiters will support this project because it's so, so needed.

Remember this from the Daily Show [[go to about 3minutes in):
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-epi...atrick-stewart

From the CJR article:
“It’s been rankling me for years,” said Headlee. “Not only do the middle states get less attention,” she added, “But the attention that they do get is not adequate.”
She likes to call east and west coasters’ perceptions of the middle states—backward, sleepy, conservative— a “fairy tale.” After spending her early years as a reporter in Detroit, Headlee became convinced that current news coverage didn’t do much to confront these stereotypes.
“There’s a certain fairy tale about Detroit,” she said, “that this fabulous metropolis is now dead or dying. And like all fairy tales, there’s elements of truth to that.” But she thinks the media often plays into these one-dimensional judgments. When a story runs about Detroit, “they have to show a picture of a ruined building,” Headlee said.

There's been a bunch of coverage:
http://hildyshub.com/2013/10/25/cele...middle-ground/
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/m...vered-america/
http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/m...ickstarter.php