Re(7): NPR expected to shut down Posted on January 22, 2026 at 03:29:34 PM by Rambling Rose
I can tell you're a radio salesman, this room's King of Spam. Its not a revelation, I dont hate the workers, I tell them to look forward with their abilities to earn a living.
And its not a revelation that the quality of radio has fallen. Most on air staff are muzzled by formats. You carry youself as a hero for the working class but I see no respect from you for those who produce what you sold for so many years.
You dont know if theyre enjoying their careers because they don't talk about whats good about radio. They don't talk at all but for the few who diss their variious corporate owners. I dont think you read this board..you just look for my posts so you can trash me.
And whats this preoccupation now about alcoholism? Go bitch about people who drink so much they injure and kill people on the road.
You didn't say how things are going with your son who couldn't walk. I asked you if he was a wounded veteran and you never answered. Has he been able to work outside the home or did he find a career as a 'digital creator'? Lots of people did that when they wanted to stay safe from Covid.
Instead of picking on the alcoholics, talk about things to help those with disabilities. Who are the friendly employers in your city?
Suggest to the TV assignment editors good stories by bringing up issues. Lord knows, they're indoor cats and need all the help they can get feeding the beast at 6 and 10. AA wont let em in, schools and hospitals won't. they claim its privacy for their students and patients but I think they banned cameras to keep em from focusing on the quality of schools and health care.
The big stories never make the air because Tv now relies on dramatic video in their definition of news.
Humana finally settled, but not until after many changed doctors because they waited until the deadline. Nobody runs malpractice issues, nobody points out the politicians by name in their markets who take money and then give perks to the donors to help them rake in more profits.
Nobody's covering industry. Talking about medical and legal fees. And association price fixing.
YOu wouldn't know about any of that because you sold radio time.
Just how many readers in here actually 'enjoy' their work? Yes its more intersting than rolling tacos at Taco Loco. But doesnt pay as well as a union job at the auto plant. Or picking up the trash between the seats of airliners on a tight schedule to stay in the air.
So many stories of really useful information and no staff to go out and gather them. But its cheaper to fire all the reporters and just send photogs out to chase the police around...and shoot b-roll of police cars with their lights flashing.
I think the cop beat would be more interestign to visit jails and prisons, find out how many inmates have no skills except for selling street drugs, how long their terms are. Do they have AA and naltrexone for inmates so they can finish their sentences sober and drug free?
Do they have classes to prep them for future careers? Why don't the military do that rather than just give them an airline ticket home? I remember one of the problems for newsgathering was that they were kept so busy turning out today's stories, they never had time to dig for tomorrows. Thats what happens when you make your half dozen reporters do two stories a day, shooting and editing but they have to waste time doing liveshots which serve only to keep up the illusion of field reporting.
Corporations are just filling time between commercials because theyr'e not in the business of providing public service, they're in the business of holding viewers as cheaply as possible.
It becomes a rat race most of the time as staff waits for the really fun events to break that monotony. Most of us I remember just kinda waited and hoped to be in position to get assigned to cover the one or two interesting events that happen each week. The rest of their days was spent filling airtime. Weather stories and disasters were always fun. And interviewing newsmakers.
Once I spent some time following the moonies around, and getting inside hospitals to see how cancer kids lives are saved. I interviewed Grand Dragon David Duke about the Klan...he got into politics. Saw him on TV the other day, and he looks as young today as he did 40 years ago. Must have had a face lift, I guess. TV doesnt even do stories like that anymore, although for the last few years in the small market where I live, they fill the time doing VOSB's off of news releases mailed into the Assignment Editors from Non profits wanting free publicity. So many food drives.
But go ahead, Jim and paste in your AI snippets day after day. You can do that fm your dining room table.
I think it would be interesting to see some stories about why migrants slip in to the country...are they escaping drug lords kidnapping their teenagers to run drugs? Are there just no jobs that earn survivable wages so doing crime pays better and requires no technical skills? How do they stay away from the ICE cops? Especially now that ICE is raiding the agencies to get names and addresses of people trying to lay low and survive. When people get dumped south of the border, and they were working in the US and then kidnapped and deported to a strange city, knowing no one, having with only the clothes on their backs, what happens to them? I read the other day ICE cops get a 6 figure signing bonus, uniforms, to play Gestapo hunting for people with brown skin.
The best way to newsgather for TV is to go looking for news but without a camera; people will talk to you then because news cars painted to look like circus wagons draw a lot of attention and nobody wants cops or newscrews parked in front of their houses.
Bored of my drivel? Just look for Boogeyman's posts, or just get on AI yourself. Course ya need a decent computer, there just isn't enough real estate on a smartphone's 2 inch screen to be meaningful. Well gotta run. Shit, were gonna get 4-6 inches of snow this week and at this latitude, cities dont have plows so schools will be closed and TV announcers will tell everyone not to go out. Retailers hate that because they need customers on slippery days too!
Story idea. Which suburbs clean the streets before rush hours, and which ones don't have the trucks to plow residential areas, trapping everyone at home til it all melts? When I was up there, living in the county, the trucks plowed my street without fail before 7am. Thats what taxes are for!