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Poland's Roman Catholic station Radio Maryja (pronounced Maria) has always blended the sacred world of faith with the profane arena of politics. Its archconservative commentators love to slag off the "evils" of the free market and the perils of joining Europe. But this month they acquired an opponent tough for them to dismiss. After one pundit declared that Jewish groups were "humiliating Poland internationally by demanding money" for property expropriated during World War II and likened their efforts to a "holocaust industry," the Vatican itself decided this was the last straw. It instructed the Polish Catholic church to prevent...
When asked what exactly the station planned to do, she was unsure. Nevertheless, she says, “it’s all in our best interest, because it’s still a student station...
WHRB’s acceptance of classical as the backbone of the station’s success—partly for financial reasons, to be sure— in addition to highly specialized niche programming, means that there is fundamentally no future for WHRB to become a station that primarily caters to mainstream college students...
...attract a student audience, WHRB would have to completely revamp its programming. But to change its programming would mean financial catastrophe for the station...
...even in the unlikely scenario that the station were to start broadcasting music that catered to mainstream student interest—whatever that is at Harvard—how many students would listen anyway...