Agreed, but what brought up this? On Nov 5, 2012 9:54 PM, "John Figliozzi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Swprograms mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > >
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