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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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