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I know you were wondering what possible culture could produce Stern, Imus, and their devil spawn, Limbaugh?
Answer: radio. The broadcast industry is feudal in its values, along with its drive to create "news" which sustains 40 per cent profit margins. A biography of the truly talented Katie Couric, who did sleep around to get ahead, attests to this, along with nearly 50 years of my personal experience. I got out early and into newspapers, where we actually sued a Great Metropolitan Daily Newspaper for sex discrimination and won because newspapers are just as corrupt but with Ivy League manners.
I'd forgotten how bad it is and how appalling sexual harassment raises its head in every generation. This is the story of what happened to the Chicago Tribune after a bunch of radio execs were given the run of the place.
Mr. Abrams, who describes himself as an “economic dunce,” was made Tribune’s chief innovation officer in March 2008. In his new role, he peppered the staff with stream-of-consciousness memos, some of which went on for 5,000 typo-ridden, idiosyncratic words that left some amused and many bewildered.
“Rock n Roll musically is behind us. NEWS & INFORMATION IS THE NEW ROCK N ROLL,” he wrote in one memo, sent in 2008. He expressed surprise that The Los Angeles Times reporters covering the war in Iraq were actually there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/media/06tribune.html?_r=1&sq=chicago%20tribune&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print
This is one reason the Fairness Doctrine really needs to be restored, not that fairness will ensue but to provide these assholes with a clue.
Women at the Trib didn't sue for sexual harassment because EEOC suits are the kiss of death for future employment. (At the Great Metro Daily, we filed a class action suit.)
This is the 21st century, not the 12th.
My super at KWRK, the old hippie, came back from a week of silent meditation at the Vallecitos Buddhist retreat for activists. He said his first sensation on re-entering society was "It's all bullshit. All this is bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit."
I told him I was totally there and had to get a grip on my manners to keep from waving my finger in the air and shouting repent.
This long story about the takeover of a Chicago newspaper occurs to me on the same day I'm staring out the window and thinking, is Rahm Emmanuel so provincial that he thinks running for mayor of Chicago is better than being Obama's right hand guy? Is Obama so provincial that he.....oh nevermind.
The path gets narrower. Repent.
Answer: radio. The broadcast industry is feudal in its values, along with its drive to create "news" which sustains 40 per cent profit margins. A biography of the truly talented Katie Couric, who did sleep around to get ahead, attests to this, along with nearly 50 years of my personal experience. I got out early and into newspapers, where we actually sued a Great Metropolitan Daily Newspaper for sex discrimination and won because newspapers are just as corrupt but with Ivy League manners.
I'd forgotten how bad it is and how appalling sexual harassment raises its head in every generation. This is the story of what happened to the Chicago Tribune after a bunch of radio execs were given the run of the place.
Mr. Abrams, who describes himself as an “economic dunce,” was made Tribune’s chief innovation officer in March 2008. In his new role, he peppered the staff with stream-of-consciousness memos, some of which went on for 5,000 typo-ridden, idiosyncratic words that left some amused and many bewildered.
“Rock n Roll musically is behind us. NEWS & INFORMATION IS THE NEW ROCK N ROLL,” he wrote in one memo, sent in 2008. He expressed surprise that The Los Angeles Times reporters covering the war in Iraq were actually there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/media/06tribune.html?_r=1&sq=chicago%20tribune&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print
This is one reason the Fairness Doctrine really needs to be restored, not that fairness will ensue but to provide these assholes with a clue.
Women at the Trib didn't sue for sexual harassment because EEOC suits are the kiss of death for future employment. (At the Great Metro Daily, we filed a class action suit.)
This is the 21st century, not the 12th.
My super at KWRK, the old hippie, came back from a week of silent meditation at the Vallecitos Buddhist retreat for activists. He said his first sensation on re-entering society was "It's all bullshit. All this is bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit."
I told him I was totally there and had to get a grip on my manners to keep from waving my finger in the air and shouting repent.
This long story about the takeover of a Chicago newspaper occurs to me on the same day I'm staring out the window and thinking, is Rahm Emmanuel so provincial that he thinks running for mayor of Chicago is better than being Obama's right hand guy? Is Obama so provincial that he.....oh nevermind.
The path gets narrower. Repent.
