I’m starting to think that the Reader doesn’t like us (and other tidbits).
Could this possibly be the dorkiest graffiti artist in the history of tagging? (via PRI). You know you’ve made it when you are scrawled on an apartment building in Oaktown…or maybe photoshopped in Oaktown.
Man, I am starting to think the Reader doesn’t like us.
If you are still interested in weird gossip half-baked non-theories over the death of Michael Scott, Sneed delivers.
The Bears have snubbed NBC. It turns out Costas wanted to talk to a Bears player or coach for the Sunday night broadcast but the Bears refused. That’s right. We are bigger than the NFL.
Does this mean restaurant week is leaving too? Fine. Charge me full price all the time. See if I care.
Interested in some bio-diversity? Okay, it’s a blog that shows leaves that look like Blagojevich’s hair.
Story of the day: A first-person account of trying to re-enter society after prison.
Lisa Madigan is suing hair-replacement companies. Not for her, but on our behalf.
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The stuff the reader posts about the guts of WBEZ is very interesting to me. More interesting than Feder’s posts about the personalities hosting different TV news or radio shows.
It also seems like their posting as someone concerned about the journalistic future of WBEZ, which is not dislike at all.
Can we just get rid of Malatia? The staff and membership seems dedicated to journalism, the former does it well and the latter avidly consumes it. Why divert our dollars from funding what we love to a project we don’t care about or use? If Malatia is so focused on Vocolo, let him spin it off, take the helm, and fundraise for it on its own merits? Why? Because without bleeding BEZ dry, Vocolo would fail spectacularly.
I know a gay woman who says she’ll be straight for Ira.
I think **that’s** when you know you’ve made it.
That’s your only response to the issues brought up by the Reader’s article? A single joke about how they “don’t like” you? How about a substantial response and transparency?
How about responding to staff complaints about how producers from Vocalo and WBEZ a treated differently?
How about the fact the station still doesn’t disclose that listner donations to WBEZ are being funnelled to Vocalo? Especially as a majority of Chicago can’t tune in the station.
For listener supported radio, you guys sure act as imperious and closed as a private corporation. Malatia behaves like a CEO rather than steward of a public trust.
Curious reader,
What do you want from me? I am not the station manager, nor am I in a position to give you that transparency and substantial response. I’m the blog editor. That’s like asking Eric Zorn to respond for the Tribune Company. That’s not my job. We posted the strategic plan last week and Daniel Ash gave me a quote. According to the Reader, we buried it. By burying it, we posted midday and reposted on the home page for 2 days.
Memo to Miner: our home page and blog are where we get all of our traffic. Think about that before you listen to disgruntled staff tell you otherwise. In other words, fact check.
By the way, that whole article in the Reader was based on confidential e-mails sent to STAFF. So when you say that Torey isn’t responding to staff, you are misinformed.
Here’s what I like — that even though you can’t say anything about it, you linked to it over on the reader.
Yeah, that’s my job – that’s what is happening in the world and I linked to it. Hey Stanford, who’s side are you on! I thought we were FB friends!
There’s too many Dave’s commenting on this, it looks like I’m using different names to gang up on you.
I don’t need different names for that.
That story in the Reader was not critical of WBEZ. In fact, it was quite evenhanded. I’m glad someone at the Reader is paying attention to what’s going on at the station. How else are listeners going to know what’s happening behind the scenes?