Re: [IRCA] Bashing Clear Channel

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

How does a rant that attacks broadcast companies, bashs people and just
generally bashes belong on a list about DX'ing? THis is way off topic and
not the first time he's shared/posted/ done stuff like this. Rants of any
kind, even if related to broadcast companies or DX'ing don't belong on a
list like this..

Paul

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Glenn Hauser via IRCA <
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> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:30:34 -0700
> Subject: Bashing Clear Channel
> 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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