To elaborate on my previous short post alerting readers to this Line Out entry: fired jock Greg Jaspan provides an explosive glimpse behind the walls of one of the most influential radio stations in America. It’s essential reading (5,000 words’ worth) for anybody—fan or hater—who cares about KEXP.

Below are a few of Jaspan’s observations:

There’s a hush-hush saying that many of us KEXP DJs use when confiding among ourselves our displeasures with the direction the station has been taking over the past several years: “KEXP, where the money matters.â€�

KEXP management goes to great lengths to project an image of the station to the public that is very different from the reality.

John Richards and Don Yates are willfully ignorant of any types of music which they don’t personally like and which they don’t think fits KEXP’s branding image, and that includes most non-mainstream electronic music.