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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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