[IRCA] Re: All Changes In Radio Have Been For The Negative!

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey you guys!  Knock it off.  Carry this conversation  off
list............don kaskey



N0UIHEric@xxxxxxx wrote:

>  Terry, I wish you would stop insulting my intelligence. I think
> before I speak, which you don't. I tell the truth, you don't. The
> truth is that Clear Channel Communications controls far too much of
> the broadcast environment, and that's the most anyone has owned since
> the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of the programming they do is
> forced upon us, without asking the local audiences what formats they
> want, what personalities they're looking for, et cetera. That's the
> same thing the Soviet government did with their media. They forced
> their views on everyone else, regardless of race, sex, creed or
> ethnicity. That's the same thing Clear Channel Communications (a more
> appropriate name is Communist Channel) is doing in the United States.
> They want all remaining ownership regulations removed so they can
> brainwash us with their filth, while ignoring the needs of our
> communities. The commercial broadcast industry is notorious for
> treating disabled people like they don't exist. Most commercial
> broadcasters, especially those that are corporate-owned, won't hire
> people with disabilities, even though this has been outlawed by the
> Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Some have studios that do not
> comply with the accessibility guidelines set forth by the ADA (Clear
> Channel was based in two inaccessible buildings before moving to their
> new digs on Oakland Avenue). For example, WEW 770 and KWRE 730/KFAV
> 99.9 are in buildings that are not accessible to those in wheelchairs,
> in violation of the ADA. In any case, a disabled person is just as
> open to being sued by a big corporation as anyone else. Just because
> you've been out of the hobby for 21 years, you still need to be
> reeducated on the negative changes that have occurred in the broadcast
> industry since you've been in it. Because of the broadcasters'
> insensitivity to the needs of their listeners, I've had to switch to
> shortwave radio for quality programming, which only National Public
> Radio and Public Radio International is capable of producing here in
> the United States. Now, the only reason why I live at home is because
> my parents are not in the best of health. My mother has Lou Gehrig's
> disease, and my father had a heart attack three years ago, which
> required quintuple bypass surgery. He has recovered enough to help me
> take care of my mother in her final years while I'm working on
> changing careers. You, of all people, should accept the truth. The
> truth is that I'm right, and you're dead wrong. You still have
> Nineteenth Century thinking; this is the Twenty-First Century. Live in
> it. 73, Eric (N0UIH)
>
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