NPR’s Edwards will soon sleep in
Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer interviews principles involved in the outster of Bob Edwards.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/8502417.htm (Registration Required)
Just when the anger loweres a little, these PR novices manage to tick me off all over again. Over 35,000 cards, letters, and emails have entered NPR, and the best Sterns can say is that they would have, “done it differently.” They would still have done it, of course, since they know better than we do what we want to hear.
Kernis has the most sensible quote in the article, although he doesn’t have the intelligence to realize what he’s saying: “There was no good time to do this.” Well, duh…it’s something that should not have been done.
Again, I repeat my suggestion (detailed in my 11 April post More on the Morning Edition Disaster) that you withhold support from your local public radio station (or whatever station you regularly support), and urge other individuals and corporations from withholding their support, until such time as they pressure the board of NPR to remove Executive Vice President Ken Stern and Senior Vice President for Programming Jay Kernis from their positions at NPR for alienating so many previously-loyal listeners by their foolish decision to replace Mr. Edwards, and their bumbling, smug, self-righteous mishandling of the fallout caused by this decision. And let them know in no uncertain terms exactly why you are withholding your support!
The only way to put the “Public” back in National Public Radio is to show them exactly who is paying their salaries…and to stop paying the salaries of those responsible for this disaster.