Response to a request for help with a local NPR station tele campaign request

R,

...I think I'll have to pass on this campaign. Frankly, I'm sort of torn up about it. That place has been like a wonderful resort to me for nearly 20 years. However, the new management is dedicated to making it into a Holiday Inn. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with Holiday Inns, but they've fired some of the best and brightest from it, and demoralized the remaining folks who I feel are compromised with what was and what is. Supporting this new direction largely means supporting the decision to axe people like Deb, Chris, Bob, and Elaine (and who knows who is on the chopping block next?). I'm distraught that an institution that has been an enormously successful force in both news and classical music has, by the effect of one person, been reduced to a lot of game shows and piped in programming while tossing the talent that got them to be that force in the beginning. Of course I'm preaching to the choir here, and you know more the evils of the standing situation than I'll ever know. Remember when we just worried about V? I mean, really!

My hope is that at some point she will have overreached, and somehow the ship will right itself before what remains of KUHF is reduced to being another common format at the left end of the dial (KUHA having been liquidated to Lakewood Church).  I'd like to think that you and Paul and Capella and a few others will take what's left and somehow return this organization to the sort of institution that I first fell in love with.

I guess until then, I need to stay quiet.

bill

Hey Bill,

How are you?

Things are ok up here. We start our camp-pain next week. April 3-11^th. Do you want to come up and volunteer one morning?