[SBE] The Future of Broadcasting

[John Peterson]

Since when is weapons of mass destruction in Iraq the political side of our
business??? Or global warming??? And it should be noted the last off topic
comment did not come from the moderator.

John Peterson, CSTE
Fargo



On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM, <richardy at engineer.com> wrote:


> I agree with Dan's posting and would add.  If the moderation of this board

> is going to declare "off topic" any time we step into the political side of

> our business when it is relevant to the subject at hand then this board is

> useless.  Like it or not we are controlled by the government, completely

> from a technical aspect and partially from a programming aspect.  If the

> moderators declare an idea that may very well impact the programming we

> carry or the bandwidth we are assigned and ultimately our jobs as broadcast

> engineers as "off topic" then this board is a waste of time and money.  Many

> of us do have a broad knowledge of our industry outside of engineering.  For

> my part in that knowledge I started in small market radio where I was a part

> owner, operations manager, annoucer, newsman, salesman, lawnmower, plumber

> and the engineer.  To this day when a salesperson comes up to me and says

> "you just don't know what it is like out there on the street every day

> trying to sell this place" I can reply yes I do know, I have been there.

> The political forces are trying to take more control of our industry so to

> hide our head in the sand and say it does not apply to us or I do not want

> to hear that idea is very short sighted.

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