About saveWYPR
This blog has been active for over two years, covering WYPR news and the Take Back YPR movement, since the unexpected firing of WYPR co-founder and brilliant radio host Marc Steiner in February 2008. Steiner now has a radio show on WEAA (88.9FM) from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more information on that, click here. Also, Amy Goodman has a wonderful international news and analysis show called Democracy Now (on WEAA and online at Democracynow.org).
This blog has not published since Jan. 2010. It will publish reports covering the WYPR CAB and WYPR Board meetings, if such reports are sent to the blog. Otherwise, please feel free to look through our archives, which are pretty extensive. Reports to be published can be sent to SOSWYPR [at] gmail.com. Please put them within the email, i.e., no attachments.
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Max Obuszewski | July 13, 2008 at 12:09 am
Friends,
In terms of the Take Back YPR Movement, I suggest these goals. I also suggest they be included in a flyer for distribution at Artscape—July 18 to 20. The goals are the following:
1] WYPR management admits to violations of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting requirements;
2] Management rejects the notion that the eight guarantors of the original loan to purchase the station make all decisions.
3] Management welcomes community input and agrees with the vision that Your Public Radio belongs to the listeners;
4] Management accepts the consulting role of the Community Advisory Board;
5] Management agrees to listen, through a revamped CAB, to the concerns of its Baltimore listeners;
6] The CAB becomes a more efficient organization;
7] The CAB agrees to accept members of Take back YPR;
8] The CAB pushes management to convene a governance audit, to diversify the board of directors, including to bring on low-income people, to bring all programming decisions to an open CAB meeting and to invite community input at BOD meetings; and
9] Management makes available eight-hours a week for a call-in show with a knowledgeable host who deals with the problems of Baltimore, the State of Maryland and the world beyond and allows for a variety of viewpoints.
Kagiso,
Max