[Mpls] Air America Minnesota's Gag Rule Peter McLaughlin's Campaign Manager Darin Brota

[wmmarks]

Jim Bernstein wrote:

>Everyone has to start somewhere.  I don't know this young man but if
>he's got some smarts, is willing to listen and learn, and wants to do
>this kind of work, he can learn it and be good at it.  
>  
>
Thanks Jim for showing good sense here. Maybe it's the dog days of 
summer or the silly season, but somehow spinning skullduggery out of a 
tiff between Coleman and the radio station and trying to attach Peter 
McLaughlin to it is really over the top.

>But for Janet Robert to hire him for a radio producer job is
>just goofy - wouldn't she want to hire someone who had
>actually done production before?  
>  
>
Air America is about 20 minutes old as an entity. If you'll notice from 
hugely successful radio, tv, and movie folks like, say, Garrison Keillor 
or Jim Hensen, and if you read or hear the credits, you'll see that 
their success is due, in substantial part, to starting with a fairly raw 
team/crew and continuing with that same group, as much as possible, over 
a long span of time so they can grow into a reliable, popular team.

If I were in Janet Roberts position at a new and exciting endeavor, I'd 
go for the bright, personable one every time, let her/him work through 
OJT, and see what he/she comes up with.

WizardMarks, Central