J.J. GOULD: Here’s One Example Of What Free Media Can Do In Afghanistan. “When we had a radio program initially in 2003, we had male and female DJs discussing a whole host of issues . . . and the backlash was extraordinary. As a matter of fact we even contemplated getting rid of the female DJs. But we persisted — and in a very short space of time it became a sort of acceptable format for radio, and most of our listeners accepted the reality that a man and a woman could be together in a studio. Again, it wasn’t by design but a byproduct of doing the sorts of things that we do.”