Letters to the Public Radio Program Managers Newsletter from Former MPBN supporters
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Maine Public radio bears the imprint of the personalities who control its programming, Beck and Dowe, and the result is not attractive. The network is increasingly run as a private club by those who control it, and God help the on-air staff who might dare to poke fun at the fading political party that has so thoroughly damaged America.
Sadly, MPBN radio has become least of all about Maine. The shameful hounding off the air visited on veteran broadcaster Robert Skoglund was one more step in removing what interests Maine people from MPBN's airwaves. Heaven forbid that we should have a genuine Maine humorist on the air when we can fill the airtime with more NPR fluff. Skoglund was, of course, forced out for refusing to sign what amounted to a "confession," such as the East German STASI used to demand of those it threatened to silence.
As MPBN's programming has pathetically narrowed,its loud announcements of self-congratulation have grown more numerous. I stopped contributing the day the Humble Farmer was made to leave, and I have also removed a very substantial planned bequest to MPBN from my will.
MPBN's Board, apparently an arm of the Maine Republican Party, remains silent and allows Beck and Dowe to proceed with the damage.
Maine Public radio bears the imprint of the personalities who control its programming, Beck and Dowe, and the result is not attractive. The network is increasingly run as a private club by those who control it, and God help the on-air staff who might dare to poke fun at the fading political party that has so thoroughly damaged America.
Sadly, MPBN radio has become least of all about Maine. The shameful hounding off the air visited on veteran broadcaster Robert Skoglund was one more step in removing what interests Maine people from MPBN's airwaves. Heaven forbid that we should have a genuine Maine humorist on the air when we can fill the airtime with more NPR fluff. Skoglund was, of course, forced out for refusing to sign what amounted to a "confession," such as the East German STASI used to demand of those it threatened to silence.
As MPBN's programming has pathetically narrowed,its loud announcements of self-congratulation have grown more numerous. I stopped contributing the day the Humble Farmer was made to leave, and I have also removed a very substantial planned bequest to MPBN from my will.
MPBN's Board, apparently an arm of the Maine Republican Party, remains silent and allows Beck and Dowe to proceed with the damage.
posted by The humble Farmer at 5:51 AM
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