Letters to the Editor: Ponder a 'beacon of light', will be missed on airwaves
I am 80 years old. I have never seen our country in such disarray, but I never dreamed it would reach into my kitchen and my radio.
Of course, I'm referring to the "Ron Ponder Show." His firing seems purely political — not a blunder but a well-planned method to silence the voice of the people.
What a disgrace to our community and to our right to "freedom of speech and press." If we can't speak our opinion, we are forced to listen to biased, uneducated and uninformed media. Why are we so afraid of people with whom we disagree or who don't look like us?
As I said when I spoke at City Council, it is a manager's prerogative to manage however he pleases, but you would think listeners and participants would be taken into consideration. The cowardly, despicable method of not allowing Mr. Ponder to say goodbye was absolutely horrible.
The entertaining, informative program, in which all of the community — young, old, housebound, black, white, other, poor (unable to afford cable) — participated, was presented by a giant in our community, a beacon of light, Ron Ponder. This is evidenced by the letters to the editor in The Repository. Godspeed, Mr. Ponder. Goodbye WHBC. I won't be listening anymore.
KATHRYN RAMSEY, CANTON