Nothing epitomizes the impact of drastic budget cuts on the World Service than its reconfigured web site. Skeletal, amateurish, replete with dead links and missing information... it is truly an embarrassment. More importantly, the cuts are taking a noticeable toll on its on-air and online programming as longtime news and broadcast professionals start to leave what they obviously perceive to be a proverbial sinking ship. It's hard to see how management pulls this organization out of what certainly seems to be starting to resemble a death spiral.
I never thought I'd ever see anything like this happen to what was once such a confident, thoroughly professional and iconic institution. For me, the blame goes to successive incompetent short-sighted governments on all sides and a management that began embracing commercial values and forgetting and all but abandoning its public service roots and ethos that at one time set it apart from, and well above, the crowd. What a bloody tragedy. John Figliozzi Halfmoon, NY _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
