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- Subject: Bashing Clear Channel
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:30:34 -0700
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Glenn: -- Oh, how cool it is for all the apes to line up against the wall and throw feces at Clear Channel/iHeart Media! After all, CC is BIG, and that has to be bad!!! Granted, it may not be the most creative programming, but my God, it operates as an actual BUSINESS! Who knows, maybe if more of the radio "business" had done such over the past five decades, perhaps the medium wouldn't be in the shape it's in? I know, pure Heresy!
What prompted me to write was the comparison of CC with "satan" by some wag in 14-38. If you want "satan", I have one word for you: DISNEY! Pat Martin wisely pointed out that CC and other large corps have been fairly kind to hobbyists, certainly a very small and focused group of humans. Can anyone truly imagine Disney doing the same with its ESPN and Radio Disney facilities?
Although plenty of business decisions have been made by CC, I know of no one whose career was deliberately and maliciously destroyed by CC. I do know of people who have had that done by Disney, myself included after many good, productive years at ABC.
And just look at ABC, a cartoonish shadow of its former incarnation as the leader of U.S. commercial broadcasting. Did anyone notice that most of the veteran, "real" journalists at ABC Radio left the net within two or three years after the Disney coup d'etat?
A friend recently pointed out that CC never painted itself as a loving, family-friendly wonderland full of cute talking animals, beloved dwarves and fairies and magical princesses bringing incredible fairy-tale endings to otherwise egregious life portrayals. CC/iHeart Media was founded by businessmen exploring the possibilities and promises of classic capitalism.
Disney was founded by an insecure anti-semite and racist, with the emotional maturity of a snail...ever wonder why the Disney tales usually feature the death or complete absence of a mother-figure? Old Walt provided a house to his aging parents in the 1930s, financed by his great success with the famed rodent Mickey. But Walt was too cheap to have professionals service the furnace unit in the house--he sent his own questionably-competent studio engineers out for the task instead. Very soon, the house burned to the ground, killing Walt's mother in the process.
So Walt pays back by inflicting emotional distress on generations of children, who watched beloved mother figures perish en masse in the precious Disney stories heaped upon us all. And yet Americans and many others worldwide line up like ants around the block to lay out their hard earned funds in their absolute worship of the great horned devil-god Disney. If Disney isn't "satan", I don't know what is--but I know it's not Clear Channel/iHeart Media. So there. 73z -- (GREG HARDISON, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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