About saveWYPR
This is the blog of the saveWYPR & Take Back YPR movements in Baltimore and Maryland that began after the unexpected firing on Feb. 1, 2008 of WYPR co-founder and brilliant radio host Marc Steiner. Steiner now has a radio show on WEAA (88.9FM) from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
This blog since has documented the activist community organizing to change WYPR practices, investigated station practices, and monitored and reported on WYPR station meetings, especially WYPR Board meetings. We believe this is a crucial function that WYPR station members and WYPR CAB members need to attend to.
This blog will be publishing once per month, with a focus on covering WYPR board and CAB meetings. During 2008 and until the summer of 2009, SaveWYPR.com often published weekly. The blog still is willing to publish additional work beyond once per month submitted to SOSWYPR [at] gmail.com.
Also, anyone can comment directly on the existing blog posts. It does not have to be “approved” or even “agreed with” by the blog. So please do! 
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This forum is moderated by saveWYPR editor Gregg Mosson (www.greggmosson.com). For any response to the posts, please comment right here online. Of course in addition for queries, responses, and questions, feel free to email: soswypr [at] gmail.com.
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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