Mary was the last on-air source of information about folk music in DC and a great way to hear the new stuff on the horizon.
With her dismissal it's likely that many of the folk venues in DC will lose enough patrons to close.
This is action is unjust for a woman who worked so hard for WETA and it's listeners for decades.
The experience that we had with the Lee Michael Dempsey/ WAMU dismissal leads me to think that WETA will also not give a hoot about the reaction of Mary's loyal listeners and friends. They probably factored in all the letters we could write and the money we would not sent before they decided to act.
IMHO Public Broadcasting is pissing away the reason it was founded.
I actually like that the self important talk radio shows will be going and thatclassical music is returning. But I suspect that it will have a heavy scent of WGMS on it.
As Beethovan might say,"Dieses Kampf zwischen unterschiedlich Musik Stile ist unwürdig und sollte nicht bekommen geschah."
Mary deserves better treatment.