RE: WMBR is cancelling it's nightly news - protest

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

Eli Polonsky wrote:

>One of my gripes with how WMBR has been programmed over the years is that 
>it's
>sometimes been based too much on their own internal logistics (and squabbles)
>than on their claim to serve the listening audience and community


As a former WMBR staffer myself, I can agree with that.  A person could 
easily go from valued station member to pariah with a change of regime.  I 
never got involved with station politics, but it did verge on mob rule at 
times.

>Though I'm not currently part of the management, I think it may possibly be
>more the matter of whether or not the current management wants any news
>(produced by non-MIT members) at all.


The station has never been particularly open to programming produced 
outside...even non-MIT students are often regarded as a necessary evil than 
as any sort of benefit.  The Pacifica news block came along after I'd left, 
and I personally have no use for their leftist views but I suppose it plays 
well in the Peoples' Republic of Cambridge.