- unlike the two fat old White guys still on the payroll.
WHo are the old fat guys? Carl Kanefski is out too.
Watcher: How many years ago did Kanefski leave?
I've not asked any of the folks I know at WDEL about Mellany's leaving WDEL. In the first place this is a personnel issue and they'd not ethically be allowed to discuss this with me; and as a friend I'd not ask them to divulge such info. Secondly Ms. Armstrong's entitled to her privacy. So whether she left on her own or was laid off is frankly is none of our business. Hopefully her great sounding voice will re-appear somewhere else in the Philly/Wilmington market.
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And the courts have made it clear for decades that public figures do not have expectations of privacy.
Thank you Ravens for clarifying the issue.
By the way Fred, I never claimed to be a journalist. I've said that I worked weekends at WILM as a Reporter, News Anchor for 7 years and as a Talk Show host for 4 years. As you've said, in the past a number of years ago, the station wasn't automated back then and they needed a monkey [I believe the words you used] to keep the place on the air on Saturday nights. So to keep me interested rather than just airing satellite shows, they had me write news stories for Sunday morning's news block, anchor a half hour news block on Saturday evening, and eventually they threw me a bone by letting me do a talk show on Saturday nights, not prime time. I guess they figured how much damage could I do as its a low listener time anyhow. As it turned out I did beat out WDEL during my talk shows time slot in the actual ratings, not 12+. I saw the book. Not too shabby for a weekender who did not have the credentials to be called an actual journalist. But make no mistake, I'm not an expert, I did the best I could [I tried to learn from the full timers there] and I definitely don't have the credentials to be considered a journalist. I was just a weekender whose real job was to keep the station on the air.
So given the fact I did not study journalism, I didn't do badly, given others I've heard who had.
The privacy of personnel files can be rather fluid. A manager who once worked at the station where you were not a journalist for seven years and now works at a station where you say personnel files are private once leaked personal information about a former employee from station personnel files on to several Internet message boards in retaliation for online criticism of the station. I guess personnel files are not so private when management decides they are not.