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Article: WAMU Loses Commentator Mark Plotkin To WTOP
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- The Washington Post
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- April 12, 2002
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Mark Plotkin, the always passionate, sometimes bombastic star of
WAMU-FM's weekly politics program, said yesterday that he's leaving
the public station after 20 years to become a gadfly for all-news
WTOP.
The move is a coup for WTOP and a major loss for WAMU, a public
news-and-talk station that competes for much the same audience as
WTOP, a commercial station. WAMU's strongest programs are nationally
distributed fare from National Public Radio and Public Radio
International, and Plotkin, along with talk show host Kojo Nnamdi,
has been among its few distinctive local voices.
Plotkin, 55, has developed a niche as a kind of radio columnist,
commenting on D.C. political affairs and grilling ...