W hen KCRW General Manager and Program Director Ruth Seymour goes to the gym, she isn't taking time off from work - she's getting down to it. Independent producers, she says, are essential not only to KCRW's eclectic programming mix but to public radio in general.
Independents are the hope of the future.
You're the hope of the present as well. You have been undervalued, under appre- ciated, under celebrated and most of all, under funded. And I am always appalled by that. This seems to me so self-evident that I am always dumbfounded by the administrative types who don't seem to get that. They seem to think that the business we're in is about administration.