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Ruth Seymour&;s KCRW: The State isMoi
By encinoman
Few general managers are as closely associated with a public radio station, for better or worse, than Ruth Seymour with KCRW-FM, beginning her tenure in 1978. So it&;s not surprising that the 70+ aging lioness (or dragon lady, as many would have it) in winter still believes as King Louis XIV of France believed &;L&;Etat, C&;Est Moi (The State, That&;s Me)
At KCRW, no one is bigger than the station, except Seymour, as acclaimed writer/performer Sandra Tsing Loh discovered a few years ago. The latest to feel her wrath, perhaps stirred by various KCRW constituencies, is Claude Brodesser-Aker, who decried the forced resignation of Rich Raddon from the LA Film Festival for his donation to &;Yes on 8&;, the proposition which actually said no to gay marriage. Seymour, who is certainly old enough to remember the Hollywood Blacklist, said the
&;The Business compared his resignation to the Hollywood Blacklist days when members of the film industry lost their jobs because of alleged Communist sympathies. The actors, directors, writers and producers who were targeted in the Blacklist never resigned their positions. KCRW regrets airing this out-of-the-blue opinion and has made it clear to those involved that it is unacceptable.&;
But Seymour-as-KCRW is often curiously silent when other &;mistakes are made&; on the station&;s airtime. In June, I wrote and blogged about another KCRW program giving airtime to one of America&;s most notorious anti-semites.
Queen Ruth never responded.
Tags: KCRW.ORG, Ruth-Seymour
This entry was posted on December 10, 2008 at 8:28 pm and is filed under political-correctness.
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