To the editors:
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One quotation from me is open to misinterpretation by its placement in the story, however. At the time that I first spoke to Ms. Plys in July, I was attempting to explain the problematic nature of the staffing of our program department and the difficulty in getting the board of directors to understand the need to compensate the staff appropriately and to actually put producers, hosts, and other key personnel on staff–with salaries, benefits, and the like. Last year’s salary and hiring freeze were components of this situation. A reliance on interns and poorly compensated recent interns was another.
Working with my colleagues is one of the greatest privileges of working with WBEZ. With their varied range of skills, interests, and experiences, they have the ability to make local programming extremely strong. I was trying to indicate that they need to be supported in those efforts with compensation and air time. I apologize to them for anything that I said that did not make this clear.
