Dont' miss Wednesday's letter to the editor in The Inquirer from WHYY board members, who throw around a little corporate jargon ("powerful brand" is my favorite) in defense of WHYY CEO Bill Marrazzo. In a way, it's a classic of the form - a we-have-to-defend-our-guy-because-we-hired-him letter. But the writers, chairman Molly Dickinson Shepard and vice chairman Gerard H. Sweeney, make a startling revelation: "WHYY is in a battle for survival."
That's the story I want to read. It's interesting to know that the board is willing to pay its CEO a half a million a year to run the place. But the question is why, if Marrazzo has been just the guy for the job all these years, is the station still battling for survival?
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Because Public Broadcasting (PBS and NPR) is completely corrupt in the United States. Consultants rule -- so, classical music is out, Lawrence Welk is in. Serious documentaries are out, Ken Burns is in. Heavy, long classical music is off the radio, and short, bland, characterless barqoue music is REALLY in.
Public broadcasting in the US is a tax-deduction scam for a handful of wealthy yet provincial insiders. It's a lost cause.
Don Drewecki,
Galway, New York
Posted by Don Drewecki | September 4, 2007 1:32 PM
Posted on September 4, 2007 13:32