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WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For Telling Truth?

V

valkyrie777

As someone who graduated from two of Boston's finer universities with both a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters, worked while in school there for two different radio stations and as someone whose ancestry descends from the Pilgrims and the Winthrop Fleet, I always looked up to Boston as a beacon of truth, a bastion of integrity, the genesis-point of my family on this continent and a focal point of courage; I am now, unfortunately, embarassed by one of Boston's "nooz stayshuns" and the egregious actions of its denizens. (I can't even, in good conscience, call WBZ/AM a "news station") How the employees of that station can stay silent in the face of this travesty mystifies me, as well.

Here's the story from www.allaccess.com; perhaps the FBI will be paying THEM a visit for telling the truth:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From www.allaccess.com, Thursday, 4 August, 2005, "Net News":

As hinted WEDNESDAY (8/3), exclusively on ALL ACCESS, INFINITY News-Talk WBZ-A/BOSTON reporter FLO JONIC has been fired after a dispute with management over the spiking of a story on security at BOSTON's FBI building when the FBI told the station not to run the story.

ALL ACCESS hears that JONIC uncovered serious security flaws at the ONE CENTER PLAZA building, including being able to enter the building without significant security screening and the presence of a car rental agency on the ground floor, but that the FBI told station and INFINITY management that the story would be dangerous and an aid to terrorists by identifying weaknesses in security, and the story was not aired.


JONIC's response was to complain to PD PETER CASEY and Asst. ND PAUL CONNEARNEY about the spiking via an e-mail that circulated among the staff, after which she was fired.


JONIC joined WBZ in 1993 as a freelancer while also working at WB affiliate WLVI-TV (WB 56) and NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS as a reporter, joining 'BZ fulltime in 1996.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I wish Ms. Jonic much success in the near-term as I'm sure a station with integrity will hire her and even more success to her and her attorneys as they sue the pants off Infinity/WBZ-AM for wrongful termination.

I understand the need for security in this post-9/11 world, but, to be fired for highlighting the shortcomings of those who are charged with protecting us seems more a case of "shooting the messenger" rather than of fixing the problem.

Has Radio/2005 become the tool of the bungling bureaucrats rather than being the ones who keep them honest? Ms. Jonic seems to be the sacrificial victim of those who belong to the former group.

Nathan Hale weeps.
 
So whose blame is it:

--the FBI for pressuring WBZ to kill the story?

--WBZ news dir. which assigned the story to Jonic, then killed the
airing (or, depending on whom you ask, put the story off until
a ratings period)?

--Jonic, for slamming station management in a memo which went out to
everyone in the news operation? Maybe she was outraged enough to want to
do that but perhaps it should have been kept between her and her
bosses?

--WBZ, for over-reacting in firing her--or, since she has had previous
run-ins with them, were they justified?
 
Links To Two Other News Stories:

The Boston Globe had a brief story on it in Thursday's (August 4th) edition.

The Boston Herald had a more in-depth article, which went into some detail about how Jonic was fired.

I wonder if more heads are going to roll. I can't imagine Jonic will be the only person to lose her job over this. If the decision to kill the story was made at CBS/Infinity/Viacom corporate, I think a couple of other people at WBZ (in news management) might be axed if they at first wanted to run the story.
 
Re: WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For not following the directives of her superiors.

She was not fired for her writing of the story. (or for 'telling the truth').

She was fired for not following the directive of her news director.

(....and then mouthing off about it to everyone in the station.)
 
Re: WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For not following the directives of her superiors.

> She was not fired for her writing of the story. (or for
> 'telling the truth').
>
> She was fired for not following the directive of her news
> director.
>
> (....and then mouthing off about it to everyone in the
> station.)
>

You would make a wonderful "protocol droid". However, since the C3PO designation is already taken, please choose another one. :)
 
Nathan Hale!! Give us a break......

Boston - a bastion of integrity? when so many in this city are suffering because of race or social status, that is a ridiculous thing to say.....


Does anyone really believe Viacomm would fire an employee without:

1. a history of insubordinate behavior
2. issuing several warnings in writing regarding that behavior
3. considering the ramifications of firing an employee?

the firing has nothing to do with freedoms being surpressed. "nathan hale weeps"! - OH MY GOD!!! I cant decide if I'm weeping over the stupidy of that application to this story or the flaunting of your colonial wash-a-shore pedigree!!

Jonic got fired for breeching company policy, not for breeching the security measures of the FBI.

Lost in all this is the fact the yet another bureaucratic security group has fouled up and put people's lives at risk. and typical of that group, they found a scapegoat to deflect attention from their screw up. And all you Jonic and freedom of speech supporters are falling for it. You want to get mad at someone, go stand in front of the FBI building and tell them to get their act together.

no one's rights are being compromised here. a person got fired from a job for violating her company policy, not for breaking a news story. Please put your freaking flag away already and stick to the facts.



> As someone who graduated from two of Boston's finer
> universities with both a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters,
> worked while in school there for two different radio
> stations and as someone whose ancestry descends from the
> Pilgrims and the Winthrop Fleet, I always looked up to
> Boston as a beacon of truth, a bastion of integrity, the
> genesis-point of my family on this continent and a focal
> point of courage; I am now, unfortunately, embarassed by one
> of Boston's "nooz stayshuns" and the egregious actions of
> its denizens. (I can't even, in good conscience, call WBZ/AM
> a "news station") How the employees of that station can stay
> silent in the face of this travesty mystifies me, as well.
>
> Here's the story from www.allaccess.com; perhaps the FBI
> will be paying THEM a visit for telling the truth:
>
--------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From www.allaccess.com, Thursday, 4 August, 2005, "Net
> News":
>
> As hinted WEDNESDAY (8/3), exclusively on ALL ACCESS,
> INFINITY News-Talk WBZ-A/BOSTON reporter FLO JONIC has been
> fired after a dispute with management over the spiking of a
> story on security at BOSTON's FBI building when the FBI told
> the station not to run the story.
>
> ALL ACCESS hears that JONIC uncovered serious security flaws
> at the ONE CENTER PLAZA building, including being able to
> enter the building without significant security screening
> and the presence of a car rental agency on the ground floor,
> but that the FBI told station and INFINITY management that
> the story would be dangerous and an aid to terrorists by
> identifying weaknesses in security, and the story was not
> aired.
>
>
> JONIC's response was to complain to PD PETER CASEY and Asst.
> ND PAUL CONNEARNEY about the spiking via an e-mail that
> circulated among the staff, after which she was fired.
>
>
> JONIC joined WBZ in 1993 as a freelancer while also working
> at WB affiliate WLVI-TV (WB 56) and NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS
> as a reporter, joining 'BZ fulltime in 1996.
--------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I wish Ms. Jonic much success in the near-term as I'm sure a
> station with integrity will hire her and even more success
> to her and her attorneys as they sue the pants off
> Infinity/WBZ-AM for wrongful termination.
>
> I understand the need for security in this post-9/11 world,
> but, to be fired for highlighting the shortcomings of those
> who are charged with protecting us seems more a case of
> "shooting the messenger" rather than of fixing the problem.
>
> Has Radio/2005 become the tool of the bungling bureaucrats
> rather than being the ones who keep them honest? Ms. Jonic
> seems to be the sacrificial victim of those who belong to
> the former group.
>
> Nathan Hale weeps.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
It is a good life, and not a good living, to which the wise aspire.</P>
 
Let's hear it for freedom of the press. Can only imagine what David Brudnoy would have said about this WBZ fiasco.
He was a man of broadcast integrity and I think he might have walked rather than be part of ethical disaster WBZ RADIO has become.




> As someone who graduated from two of Boston's finer
> universities with both a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters,
> worked while in school there for two different radio
> stations and as someone whose ancestry descends from the
> Pilgrims and the Winthrop Fleet, I always looked up to
> Boston as a beacon of truth, a bastion of integrity, the
> genesis-point of my family on this continent and a focal
> point of courage; I am now, unfortunately, embarassed by one
> of Boston's "nooz stayshuns" and the egregious actions of
> its denizens. (I can't even, in good conscience, call WBZ/AM
> a "news station") How the employees of that station can stay
> silent in the face of this travesty mystifies me, as well.
>
> Here's the story from www.allaccess.com; perhaps the FBI
> will be paying THEM a visit for telling the truth:
>
--------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From www.allaccess.com, Thursday, 4 August, 2005, "Net
> News":
>
> As hinted WEDNESDAY (8/3), exclusively on ALL ACCESS,
> INFINITY News-Talk WBZ-A/BOSTON reporter FLO JONIC has been
> fired after a dispute with management over the spiking of a
> story on security at BOSTON's FBI building when the FBI told
> the station not to run the story.
>
> ALL ACCESS hears that JONIC uncovered serious security flaws
> at the ONE CENTER PLAZA building, including being able to
> enter the building without significant security screening
> and the presence of a car rental agency on the ground floor,
> but that the FBI told station and INFINITY management that
> the story would be dangerous and an aid to terrorists by
> identifying weaknesses in security, and the story was not
> aired.
>
>
> JONIC's response was to complain to PD PETER CASEY and Asst.
> ND PAUL CONNEARNEY about the spiking via an e-mail that
> circulated among the staff, after which she was fired.
>
>
> JONIC joined WBZ in 1993 as a freelancer while also working
> at WB affiliate WLVI-TV (WB 56) and NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS
> as a reporter, joining 'BZ fulltime in 1996.
--------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I wish Ms. Jonic much success in the near-term as I'm sure a
> station with integrity will hire her and even more success
> to her and her attorneys as they sue the pants off
> Infinity/WBZ-AM for wrongful termination.
>
> I understand the need for security in this post-9/11 world,
> but, to be fired for highlighting the shortcomings of those
> who are charged with protecting us seems more a case of
> "shooting the messenger" rather than of fixing the problem.
>
> Has Radio/2005 become the tool of the bungling bureaucrats
> rather than being the ones who keep them honest? Ms. Jonic
> seems to be the sacrificial victim of those who belong to
> the former group.
>
> Nathan Hale weeps.
>
 
Re: Nathan Hale!! Give us a break......

Thanks for stating the company line again and again and again and again and .....
The check should be in the mail.


> Boston - a bastion of integrity? when so many in this city
> are suffering because of race or social status, that is a
> ridiculous thing to say.....
>
>
> Does anyone really believe Viacomm would fire an employee
> without:
>
> 1. a history of insubordinate behavior
> 2. issuing several warnings in writing regarding that
> behavior
> 3. considering the ramifications of firing an employee?
>
> the firing has nothing to do with freedoms being surpressed.
> "nathan hale weeps"! - OH MY GOD!!! I cant decide if I'm
> weeping over the stupidy of that application to this story
> or the flaunting of your colonial wash-a-shore pedigree!!
>
> Jonic got fired for breeching company policy, not for
> breeching the security measures of the FBI.
>
> Lost in all this is the fact the yet another bureaucratic
> security group has fouled up and put people's lives at risk.
> and typical of that group, they found a scapegoat to
> deflect attention from their screw up. And all you Jonic
> and freedom of speech supporters are falling for it. You
> want to get mad at someone, go stand in front of the FBI
> building and tell them to get their act together.
>
> no one's rights are being compromised here. a person got
> fired from a job for violating her company policy, not for
> breaking a news story. Please put your freaking flag away
> already and stick to the facts.
>
>
>
> > As someone who graduated from two of Boston's finer
> > universities with both a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters,
> > worked while in school there for two different radio
> > stations and as someone whose ancestry descends from the
> > Pilgrims and the Winthrop Fleet, I always looked up to
> > Boston as a beacon of truth, a bastion of integrity, the
> > genesis-point of my family on this continent and a focal
> > point of courage; I am now, unfortunately, embarassed by
> one
> > of Boston's "nooz stayshuns" and the egregious actions of
> > its denizens. (I can't even, in good conscience, call
> WBZ/AM
> > a "news station") How the employees of that station can
> stay
> > silent in the face of this travesty mystifies me, as well.
>
> >
> > Here's the story from www.allaccess.com; perhaps the FBI
> > will be paying THEM a visit for telling the truth:
> >
> -------------------->
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > From www.allaccess.com, Thursday, 4 August, 2005, "Net
> > News":
> >
> > As hinted WEDNESDAY (8/3), exclusively on ALL ACCESS,
> > INFINITY News-Talk WBZ-A/BOSTON reporter FLO JONIC has
> been
> > fired after a dispute with management over the spiking of
> a
> > story on security at BOSTON's FBI building when the FBI
> told
> > the station not to run the story.
> >
> > ALL ACCESS hears that JONIC uncovered serious security
> flaws
> > at the ONE CENTER PLAZA building, including being able to
> > enter the building without significant security screening
> > and the presence of a car rental agency on the ground
> floor,
> > but that the FBI told station and INFINITY management that
>
> > the story would be dangerous and an aid to terrorists by
> > identifying weaknesses in security, and the story was not
> > aired.
> >
> >
> > JONIC's response was to complain to PD PETER CASEY and
> Asst.
> > ND PAUL CONNEARNEY about the spiking via an e-mail that
> > circulated among the staff, after which she was fired.
> >
> >
> > JONIC joined WBZ in 1993 as a freelancer while also
> working
> > at WB affiliate WLVI-TV (WB 56) and NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS
>
> > as a reporter, joining 'BZ fulltime in 1996.
> -------------------->
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> >
> > I wish Ms. Jonic much success in the near-term as I'm sure
> a
> > station with integrity will hire her and even more success
>
> > to her and her attorneys as they sue the pants off
> > Infinity/WBZ-AM for wrongful termination.
> >
> > I understand the need for security in this post-9/11
> world,
> > but, to be fired for highlighting the shortcomings of
> those
> > who are charged with protecting us seems more a case of
> > "shooting the messenger" rather than of fixing the
> problem.
> >
> > Has Radio/2005 become the tool of the bungling bureaucrats
>
> > rather than being the ones who keep them honest? Ms. Jonic
>
> > seems to be the sacrificial victim of those who belong to
> > the former group.
> >
> > Nathan Hale weeps.
> >
>
 
Re: WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For not following the directives of her superiors.

No, she was fired for BROADCASTING the truth which apparently VIACOM cannot handle.


> She was not fired for her writing of the story. (or for
> 'telling the truth').
>
> She was fired for not following the directive of her news
> director.
>
> (....and then mouthing off about it to everyone in the
> station.)
>
 
Re: WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For not following the directives of her superiors.

> > She was not fired for her writing of the story. (or for
> > 'telling the truth').
> >
> > She was fired for not following the directive of her news
> > director.
> >
> > (....and then mouthing off about it to everyone in the
> > station.)
> >
>
> You would make a wonderful "protocol droid".

And you would make a perfect knee-jerk loudmouth.

Jumping to conclusions about a situation you know nothing about.
 
Re: WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For not following the directives of her superiors.

And you do? Where do you work at WBZ??????

The issue is a free press not pressure to please the government.
The government be damned. Truth is the only thing that matters.
If the FBI doesn't like it, tell them to shape up and protect its building and the surrounding area. There should be more to the FBI than playing "second gun" to Whitey Bulger. Or is their edit: BANG, BANG, The Wicked Truth is Dead?

==============================================================================
> > > She was not fired for her writing of the story. (or for
> > > 'telling the truth').
> > >
> > > She was fired for not following the directive of her
> news
> > > director.
> > >
> > > (....and then mouthing off about it to everyone in the
>
> > > station.)
> > >
> >
> > You would make a wonderful "protocol droid".
>
> And you would make a perfect knee-jerk loudmouth.
>
> Jumping to conclusions about a situation you know nothing
> about.
>
 
Re: Nathan Hale!! Give us a break......

Yes, they'd have to have good cause. By the way I missed it but I guess
WRKO's Blute and Scotto talked about this yesterday. 'RKO was running a promo
featuring one of them (Blute?) mentioning the firing of a reporter on "an
all news station" and he speculated that the FBI was now in the business
of controlling radio programming, apparently. (not sure if it was Blute or
Scotto--I was half-listening...)
 
> something tells me Flo will land on her feet...
>

Let's hope she hasn't gotten a rep for being a troublemaker. CC'ing her memo to everyone was a dumb move. If she's smart she'll bring it up & admit it was a mistake of judgement.
 
Re: Nathan Hale!! Give us a break......

Has nothing to do with freedoms being surpressed? Really.

Has WBZ broke that FBI story yet??

> Boston - a bastion of integrity? when so many in this city
> are suffering because of race or social status, that is a
> ridiculous thing to say.....
>
>
> Does anyone really believe Viacomm would fire an employee
> without:
>
> 1. a history of insubordinate behavior
> 2. issuing several warnings in writing regarding that
> behavior
> 3. considering the ramifications of firing an employee?
>
> the firing has nothing to do with freedoms being surpressed.
> "nathan hale weeps"! - OH MY GOD!!! I cant decide if I'm
> weeping over the stupidy of that application to this story
> or the flaunting of your colonial wash-a-shore pedigree!!
>
> Jonic got fired for breeching company policy, not for
> breeching the security measures of the FBI.
>
> Lost in all this is the fact the yet another bureaucratic
> security group has fouled up and put people's lives at risk.
> and typical of that group, they found a scapegoat to
> deflect attention from their screw up. And all you Jonic
> and freedom of speech supporters are falling for it. You
> want to get mad at someone, go stand in front of the FBI
> building and tell them to get their act together.
>
> no one's rights are being compromised here. a person got
> fired from a job for violating her company policy, not for
> breaking a news story. Please put your freaking flag away
> already and stick to the facts.
>
>
>
> > As someone who graduated from two of Boston's finer
> > universities with both a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters,
> > worked while in school there for two different radio
> > stations and as someone whose ancestry descends from the
> > Pilgrims and the Winthrop Fleet, I always looked up to
> > Boston as a beacon of truth, a bastion of integrity, the
> > genesis-point of my family on this continent and a focal
> > point of courage; I am now, unfortunately, embarassed by
> one
> > of Boston's "nooz stayshuns" and the egregious actions of
> > its denizens. (I can't even, in good conscience, call
> WBZ/AM
> > a "news station") How the employees of that station can
> stay
> > silent in the face of this travesty mystifies me, as well.
>
> >
> > Here's the story from www.allaccess.com; perhaps the FBI
> > will be paying THEM a visit for telling the truth:
> >
> -------------------->
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > From www.allaccess.com, Thursday, 4 August, 2005, "Net
> > News":
> >
> > As hinted WEDNESDAY (8/3), exclusively on ALL ACCESS,
> > INFINITY News-Talk WBZ-A/BOSTON reporter FLO JONIC has
> been
> > fired after a dispute with management over the spiking of
> a
> > story on security at BOSTON's FBI building when the FBI
> told
> > the station not to run the story.
> >
> > ALL ACCESS hears that JONIC uncovered serious security
> flaws
> > at the ONE CENTER PLAZA building, including being able to
> > enter the building without significant security screening
> > and the presence of a car rental agency on the ground
> floor,
> > but that the FBI told station and INFINITY management that
>
> > the story would be dangerous and an aid to terrorists by
> > identifying weaknesses in security, and the story was not
> > aired.
> >
> >
> > JONIC's response was to complain to PD PETER CASEY and
> Asst.
> > ND PAUL CONNEARNEY about the spiking via an e-mail that
> > circulated among the staff, after which she was fired.
> >
> >
> > JONIC joined WBZ in 1993 as a freelancer while also
> working
> > at WB affiliate WLVI-TV (WB 56) and NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS
>
> > as a reporter, joining 'BZ fulltime in 1996.
> -------------------->
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> >
> > I wish Ms. Jonic much success in the near-term as I'm sure
> a
> > station with integrity will hire her and even more success
>
> > to her and her attorneys as they sue the pants off
> > Infinity/WBZ-AM for wrongful termination.
> >
> > I understand the need for security in this post-9/11
> world,
> > but, to be fired for highlighting the shortcomings of
> those
> > who are charged with protecting us seems more a case of
> > "shooting the messenger" rather than of fixing the
> problem.
> >
> > Has Radio/2005 become the tool of the bungling bureaucrats
>
> > rather than being the ones who keep them honest? Ms. Jonic
>
> > seems to be the sacrificial victim of those who belong to
> > the former group.
> >
> > Nathan Hale weeps.
> >
>
 
> > something tells me Flo will land on her feet...
> >
> 20 Guest St.? 55 Morrissey Blvd.? :) (or, TV or print...)
==================================================================

I have to agree. Flo WILL land on her feet, and I predict it will happen soon.

(Look at the better ops Barnicle has had since changing jobs.)
<P ID="signature">______________
"Be seeing you..."</P>
 
Re: WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For not following the directives of her superiors.

> And you would make a perfect knee-jerk loudmouth.
>
> Jumping to conclusions about a situation you know nothing
> about.
>

I didn't insult you yet you feel the need to be obnoxious, insult me and show your ass to the world. You're a real class act, huh. :)

By the way...I DO know the situation...FROM THE INSIDE. How would you know "the situation" or not?
 
WBZ is a joke.
With the hype of being a "news" station, and a lousy one at that when they do actually have their "news" format 14 hours a day.
I often tune in for the dated traffic reports and weather during the noon to 12:30 PM time slot only to hear that geezer, Paul Harvey, who ought to be on WRKO anyway.
David Brudnoy was a gift to Boston radio, and I think too good for the listeners. However, Boston deserves much better than WBZ
He was also a hold over from many years ago and the present owners and management were on a death watch. I'm very sorry to have to put it that way.
Please forgive me, but some aspects of radio are stupid and disgusting.
WBZ may have thought on some level that firing David would be more expensive than letting him stay
WBZ and infinity should be ashamed of themselves for acting like Fox news, and suppressing the truth, and Flo Jonic ought to be given an investigative journalist award in the process.
With new AM stations and signal upgrades, it's just a matter of time that WBZ's numbers erode




Let's hear it for freedom of the press. Can only imagine
> what David Brudnoy would have said about this WBZ fiasco.
> He was a man of broadcast integrity and I think he might
> have walked rather than be part of ethical disaster WBZ
> RADIO has become.
>
>
>
>
> > As someone who graduated from two of Boston's finer
> > universities with both a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters,
> > worked while in school there for two different radio
> > stations and as someone whose ancestry descends from the
> > Pilgrims and the Winthrop Fleet, I always looked up to
> > Boston as a beacon of truth, a bastion of integrity, the
> > genesis-point of my family on this continent and a focal
> > point of courage; I am now, unfortunately, embarassed by
> one
> > of Boston's "nooz stayshuns" and the egregious actions of
> > its denizens. (I can't even, in good conscience, call
> WBZ/AM
> > a "news station") How the employees of that station can
> stay
> > silent in the face of this travesty mystifies me, as well.
>
> >
> > Here's the story from www.allaccess.com; perhaps the FBI
> > will be paying THEM a visit for telling the truth:
> >
> -------------------->
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > From www.allaccess.com, Thursday, 4 August, 2005, "Net
> > News":
> >
> > As hinted WEDNESDAY (8/3), exclusively on ALL ACCESS,
> > INFINITY News-Talk WBZ-A/BOSTON reporter FLO JONIC has
> been
> > fired after a dispute with management over the spiking of
> a
> > story on security at BOSTON's FBI building when the FBI
> told
> > the station not to run the story.
> >
> > ALL ACCESS hears that JONIC uncovered serious security
> flaws
> > at the ONE CENTER PLAZA building, including being able to
> > enter the building without significant security screening
> > and the presence of a car rental agency on the ground
> floor,
> > but that the FBI told station and INFINITY management that
>
> > the story would be dangerous and an aid to terrorists by
> > identifying weaknesses in security, and the story was not
> > aired.
> >
> >
> > JONIC's response was to complain to PD PETER CASEY and
> Asst.
> > ND PAUL CONNEARNEY about the spiking via an e-mail that
> > circulated among the staff, after which she was fired.
> >
> >
> > JONIC joined WBZ in 1993 as a freelancer while also
> working
> > at WB affiliate WLVI-TV (WB 56) and NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS
>
> > as a reporter, joining 'BZ fulltime in 1996.
> -------------------->
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> >
> > I wish Ms. Jonic much success in the near-term as I'm sure
> a
> > station with integrity will hire her and even more success
>
> > to her and her attorneys as they sue the pants off
> > Infinity/WBZ-AM for wrongful termination.
> >
> > I understand the need for security in this post-9/11
> world,
> > but, to be fired for highlighting the shortcomings of
> those
> > who are charged with protecting us seems more a case of
> > "shooting the messenger" rather than of fixing the
> problem.
> >
> > Has Radio/2005 become the tool of the bungling bureaucrats
>
> > rather than being the ones who keep them honest? Ms. Jonic
>
> > seems to be the sacrificial victim of those who belong to
> > the former group.
> >
> > Nathan Hale weeps.
> >
> <P ID="signature">______________
Norm Rosen
</P>
 
Re: WBZ-A/Boston Axes Flo Jonic For not following the directives of her superiors.

> > And you would make a perfect knee-jerk loudmouth.
> >
> > Jumping to conclusions about a situation you know nothing
> > about.
> >
>
> I didn't insult you....

I think you sulted me with "You would make a wonderful "protocol droid". Did you forget writing that?

> yet you feel the need to be obnoxious.

Yes, in response to your knee-jerk criticism of good smart professionals.

> insult me and show your ass to the world.

I only attempt to point out your misconceptions.

> You're a real
> class act, huh. :)

Uh-huh.

> By the way...I DO know the situation...FROM THE INSIDE. How
> would you know "the situation" or not?

Maybe I'm your co-worker. Here, ya never know!
 
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