Your daily Marc Steiner musings
AS WYPR enters into day 3 of life without Marc Steiner, the man who gave the station its name, a few developments.
1) Steiner is set to be on today's Ed Norris Show, beginning at 11 a.m. on WHFS-FM.
2) Yesterday, there was a link to Steiner's blog page on WYPR's homepage; Maryland Morning host Sheilah Kast even mentioned it after interviewing Steiner on-air yesterday morning. Well, that link is gone now -- making what seemed like a classy gesture at the time seem petty and hollow. For those looking, Steiner's blog is available at marcsteinerblog.wordpress.com.
3) On the blog, in a posting from yesterday, Steiner takes heated issue with WYPR President and GM Anthony Brandon, who told Kast on-air yesterday that Steiner only raised some $250,000 to help with the station's purchase from the Johns Hopkins University in 2002. An angry Steiner insists he raised the $750,000 previously reported and that he has the paperwork to prove it.
Comments
Chris, you are missing the point. It was not a classy gesture that later looked pointless.
Producers are journalists and they are the authors of the show. They choose guests AND they choose which links and other supplemental information are relevant to the story.
Why was the link removed? Did it somehow become non-relevant? Or was station brass worried about public relations?
You need to dig deeper. Journalistic ethics have been compromised--we need to ask--by WHO? Did Tony Brandon demand that link be taken down? What does Sheilah have to say about part of her work being changed?
Posted by: Hope | February 6, 2008 12:29 PM