ROBERT SIEGEL, host: This is All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, host: I'm Melissa Block, and it's time for your emails about Friday's program. Several of you wrote about our segment in which former White House press secretaries offered wisdom to President-elect Obama's likely pick, Robert Gibbs. Paul Pavlich(ph) of Richmond, Kentucky, says he was irked by comments from former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer who said, remember you serve two bosses, the press and the president, but only one of them pays your salary.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, host: Mr. Pavlich writes, no mention there of the American people, the ones who really pay his salary and the ones to whom all government employees owe their true loyalty. If you contrast this with the statement of President Ford's first press secretary, who resigned over a matter of conscience, you get a telling comparison between the moderate and conservative wings of the GOP.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Several listeners saw bias in our story about protests against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons. Gay-rights activists in California were upset with its support of a same-sex marriage ban, which was approved by voters. Chris Lake(ph) of Draper, Utah, writes this: During the entire story, I kept waiting for the other side of the story, but it never came. The LDS church has an official statement on this issue. And it was never referenced, nor was a church spokesman allowed the opportunity to comment. To me, this wasn't journalism. It was PR for the gay and lesbian community.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, host: We welcome your comments anytime. Go to npr.org and click on "Contact Us."
Listeners responded to the segment in which former White House press secretaries offered wisdom to president-elect Barack Obama's likely pick, Robert Gibbs. Listeners also sounded off on the story on protests against the Church of Latter Day Saints, and on municipalities and the economic meltdown.