National Pervert Radio?

Or WUWM, Whose Undies Were Manifest?

The real story is, of course, Robyn Cherry's concern: Why is there a majority-blonde radio station in the heart of a majority-minority city?

But what people will remember are the salacious bits:

[A] state agency investigated the complaint by Robyn Cherry and ruled this month there was probable cause to bring the matter to a hearing, not a small accomplishment considering the agency gave only about one-third of the 1,764 complaints received last year the green light for a hearing.

Cherry, the only African-American employed by the station, filed the complaint with the state's Equal Rights Division because she claimed she was passed over for promotion and her on-air time was limited because of her race. In addition, she says she must follow rules and restrictions not imposed on others. [. . .]

Not only is WUWM lily white, but Cherry and her lawyer, Nola Hitchcock Cross, contend only a certain kind of Caucasian will feel at home there.

"Of the 21 non-managerial employees, 17 are female and, of those, 11 are blond," Cross wrote in a letter to investigators last year. "Indeed the only person of color on the station is Robyn Cherry." [. . .]

The station, whose reporters make a living gathering comments, declined to comment. First we tried Bob Bach, local host during the popular "Morning Edition" show.

Cross' letter to the state charges that Bach has been caught using state-owned computers to surf the Web for porn sites featuring women, with some of the sites focusing on black women. Cross backs up her assertion with a signed statement from Joshua Sather, the station's information technologies specialist.

"While trouble-shooting in response to a system problem, the IT Specialist found that Mr. Bach had a work time history of surfing the Web to visit a list of pornography sites," Cross wrote.

Good thing for them they wrapped up their spring pledge drive yesterday before this came out, eh?

Mornings, I've been listening more often to Joy Cardin on WHAD, anyway, having already got the news I would have heard from Morning Edition on the internet. Since Bob Edwards left, it has hardly been worth it anyway.