I moved to Towson 2 1/2 years ago and the Marc Steiner immediately became one of my favorite shows. I REALLY do miss him!!!!!

could someone from the Sun ask someone from the Community Advisory Board to comment, if management won't?

"The advisory board told the crowd it would pass those comments and concerns on to the board of directors in March."

Yeah, right, just like the severely edited version of the meeting posted on their website. Fire the board, re-hire Steiner.

Richard, are you saying that they edited the audio that was made available from the meeting? What specifically was removed?

Shortly after the rowdy protest outside WYPR on monday (2/25), the first day for the guest host trying to take over Steiner's show, Anthony Brandon came out to speak with a few of the remaining protesters.

After the CAB and this impromptu meeting, I think Mr. Brandon may just be starting to sense the depth of Marc Steiner's support and how deeply he has angered the community.

I believe this is the reason he has postponed the meeting. He is hoping that memory will fade and the anger will subside. I do not think it will.

Also, a note, the Community Advisory Board is focused on advising the station on how to meet the needs of the community. It is completely distinct from W_PR's board of directors. Here is information about the origin and requirements for the Community Advisory Board: http://www.cpb.org/stations/certification/cert3.html

The board and Tony Brandon are feeling the anger of the community, that's why this meeting was "postponed." First the location was moved, now it is postponed. They are in disarray.

A couple of the members of the Bring Back Steiner Movement had an impromptu conversation with Tony Brandon as our daily demonstration was winding down on Monday. It was apparent during their questioning of Mr. Brandon that he and the board did not anticipate and do not know how to respond to the community's outrage. Which shows you how out of touch station management and the board of directors really is with the community WYCR (oops, WYPR) claims to serve.

The executive Board must be made up of people who reflect the diversity of the community, especially the economic diversity. As long as the board is comprised of the wealthy (with no representatives from the middle and lower income class), its decisions will reflect only the needs and desires of their class, which are to put their financial interests front and center when making any decision, especially those that affect all of us. Make no mistake, the firing of Marc Steiner is about class, ideology and politics. Steiner's show was community and that is something the moneyed class will squash at every opportunity.

The board must be reconstituted if WYCR is ever going to truly be public radio. That's for starters.

We continue to protest every day from 12-1pm outside WYPR. Come and join us!

It would be nice if the Sun were to investigate WYPR's violation of CPB's regulations.

how alarmingly out of touch is this supposed Board to not anticipate anger and disappointment over firing the VOICE OF BALTIMORE. Do they not listen to their own shows?
Bring back Mark Steiner if you care to keep your supporters!

The daily protests outside the station continued today, Thursday Feb. 27, with five people outside the station from noon to 1 p.m.

One organizer, Maria Allwine, says the protests will continue for the forseeable future.

What a loss to all of Maryland! What REAL reason could there possibly be for the firing of Marc Steiner? I've lived in Maryland for almost 20 years and have listened to him from the time the station was still WJHU. I've always thought of him as Baltimore's Renaissance Man. What a learned person with true wit and what a quick study. He is the master of so many topics and is willing to always listen to all sides of an argument. There aren't many like him in radio. If WYPR doesn't rehire him, he should go on to an even bigger forum and audience.
Elizabeth Marquardt, 02/28/08

Fred's comments about the class makeup of the Board of Directors of YPR is totally accurate. Also the Board has No African-Americans on its Board, which should have been a warning to itself that it does not know the community. Marc Steiner needs to be rehired ASAP and Brandon, Bozzuto and Bienstock should tender their resignations forthwith.
The postponement for a month of the Board meeting is in tandem w the decision to schedule the prev postponed winter fund drive April 2-8.
Clearly the Board is showing its style of leadership by finding how much money it will get in the drive before taking a position on details of the Steiner firing: the email style and the offer of $50,000 hush money to Marc.
The public needs know what the Board as a whole thinks of those 2 matters before any money can be offered to the current YPR management. Their silence requires our full-blown boycotting of the station!

What's next? Brandon is going to schedule the board on the corporate Cayman Islands??? What a mess! Nothing that Brandon stated turned ou to be true ... not even the title of the new/replacement show! So what happened to 'State Wide' and who actually was supposed the new moderator before Danny Boy accepted the job? What a bore the new show is!!!!

If he does not rehire Marc Steiner by April, Anthony Brandon will suffer two rather significant losses. One is a huge dip in financial and listener support of WYPR, possibly requiring downsizing, layoffs and operational cutbacks that will diminish the station's quality and longevity. Secondly, Mr. Brandon himself will acquire a highly publicized tarnish on his personal reputation in the region. He'll join Spiro Agnew, Jeffrey Leavitt and Robert Irsay in historical infamy.
If he chooses to reverse the unpopular decision, there is chance for a collective redemption that would include himself.

I am getting suspicious as to the lack of coverage by THE SUN about a major policy decision by WYPR management to eliminate a program—THE MARC STEINER SHOW. Fraser Smith writes in “From the ashes of history, a new leadership class arises” [THE SUN, Mar. 2, 2008] of “An eerily resonant documentary…” which he saw at the Charles Theatre. Yes, CHICAGO TEN by Brett Morgen is brilliant, and noteworthy to those of us in the nonviolent movement to end the Iraq War. What Smith failed to tell his readers is that Marc Steiner moderated the discussion after the film.
The last notice by Laura Vozzella of this controversy [“Marc Steiner, that corporate lackey,” THE SUN, Feb. 29, 2008] quoted, with her tongue in cheek, from an inane press release from the Charm City Greens, which was critical of Steiner. Vozzella failed to realize there are very few members of this group.
In SUNRISING [page 2A of the Feb. 25, 2008 THE SUN] there was a photograph of the smiling Dan Rodricks accompanied by a notice “RANDOM RODRICKS // Listen to Dan Rodricks’ WYPR FM debut today from noon to 2 p.m. and read his blog at baltimoresun.com/randomrodricks.” When I read his blog on Feb. 4, 2008, just after the termination of the STEINER SHOW, Rodricks wrote this: “The dumping of Marc Steiner as host of the midday show at WYPR-FM -- a public-radio station that very likely would not exist were it not for him -- is sad and infuriating.” Of course, since then Rodricks has been mum about why he took Steiner’s seat.

I suspect SUN management has put the word out not to mention the Rodricks controversy and to only give cursory, if not superfluous, coverage to this major policy decision to dump the STEINER SHOW. I am hoping that THE SUN will do an investigative piece. It would inform the public that by not consulting with the Community Advisory Board or the listeners/contributors before this major policy decision, YPR management violated Corporation for Public Broadcasting requirements.

You can find a link to many Sun stories about the Marc Steiner/YPR issue here: http://baltimoresun.com/steiner

Come on. Rodericks was the choice to silence The Sun. I like Dan Rodericks column but he does not replace Marc Steiner. That is the bottom line. Return the Voice of Baltimore.

As a guest on many radio stations across America I was elated to have accses to the best talk show in the country - the Marc Steiner Show. I was so appalled by WYPR's decission I with drew my legacy gift and my monthly support. Marc was the best bar none and Baltimore is the loser.
rev. Dr. Britt Minshall