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If I appeared to be a grouchy old man in my lengthy
diatribe last night, my comments were not directed at David Gleason, whose
description of today's radio market I consider to be an accurate assessment
of today's society. I tried to make it clear that my thought is that what the
vast but fragmented majority of the listeners today want is different from what
appeals to me. In the 1950s, when my tastes were set, it would have been
economic suicide for a broadcaster to program a station with the same kind of
material that was aired in the '20s and '30s. It would take a courageous
broadcaster to program what I would listen to, because there aren't enough of me
left.
I am bothered by personal attacks made by anybody against anybody, but in
my long life as a radio newsman and particularly a newspaper editor, I learned
three little words that insulated me against the few personal attacks that were
made against me: "Consider the source."
I also have advised in editorials periodically throughout my professional
career that one should be careful about accusing someone of lying. If a person
says what he believes, he is not lying.
John Callarman, Krum TX |
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