robbbc said:
First you tell me how selfless you are, how wonderful that you give the unwashed masses YOUR radio station's time freely. Oh great master, you are too kind to we the people. How noble and high minded! When God gave you your radio station frequency he must have known what he was doing.
Of course it is no business of mine how much you do and do not give, nor do I care- you are the one talking about how wonderful and giving your station is (and you yourself- "cheerfully and anonymously", if you weren't going to bother with my remarks on giving I suggest you actually do so). It doesn't cost you one red cent to play some telethon or mention a cause on radio. I am not privy to the stations finances either- doesn't the goodwill up revenue later? Isn't that Harvard Business school 101? I would recommend charitable giving to any business and can tell you it is good business sense (it's called PR). Not doing so is called "penny wise, pound foolish". Don't make yourself into a martyr, I ain't buying. I see plenty of charitable work by local stations around the US and I can tell you that splashed everywhere is the radio station's call letters, personalities, jingo's, all hanging out in the parking lot of the "corporate sponsor" (ie. grocery store) in a fancy van handing out keychains and T-Shirts with the same sort of info. You would be forgiven if you couldn't make out the cause.
Apart from attacking me, was there any real purpose to your post? I'm incredibly sorry if you are one of those folks who feels the constant need to attack others in the neverending quest to make yourself feel good. If you are one of those people, though, you may certainly feel free to use me as a target any time you'd like. You see, best I can tell, you aren't my mother, I'm not married to you, and you do not pay my mortgage. Therefore, I really don't care what you say about me, because your opinion of me doesn't effect me one way or another. Incidentally, before you start to pass judgement, perhaps you should get to know just a little bit more about me. Just ask around. If you are actually in the broadcasting business, it won't be too awful hard to find somebody who knows me. Ask them if I'm a selfish bastard who grandstands only for public attention, as you've protrayed me to be. Trust me, I didn't get into the radio business for money. I'm in the business because I love it, and as corny as it may sound, I enjoy the opportunity to serve my community. Of course, according to you, robbbc, I'm not allowed to mention that I serve the community, lest I be accused of pandering for goodwill. I posted those comments regarding on-air fundraisers simply because the other side of the equasion needed to be presented, not in order to hilight what I personally do for my community. It is my preference to always give anonymously. However, when somebody makes the assertion that we, as broadcasters, are not a giving bunch, I see no need to ignore the comments and not mention the things that many of us do. My comments were only in defense of hundreds of giving and hard-working broadcasters, and in no way did I mean them to be self-promoting.
If you woke up tomorrow and suddenly found that you happened to be the licensee of my radio stations, what would you do differently? Since you seem to have such strong and pointed views about what we broadcasters should be doing, why don't you educate me. I take constructive criticism very well, and I'm quite anxious to know how you'd use my little slice of bandwidth to serve the public any better than I do now. If you are only interesting in throwing rocks rather than offer specific suggestions as to why you believe I fall short in my service to the public, then I'll humbly resign from the conversation. If you do intend to engage in intelligent debate, though, I only request that you get to know me rather than generalize and group me into the same category as other broadcasters, as you've seemingly done.
