COST-CUTTING COSTS DAVID GOLD HIS JOB AT WBAP

[TheSpinMan]

In the great Radio-Info tradition, 'TheSpinMan' creates a new log on just so he can trash someone. Welcome to the board, 'spin. Way to kick a guy when he's down. But don't worry about David Gold. He's a talented and resourceful fellow. He has accomplished more in his radio career than most.

Yeah, man I'm all heartbroke over that. Anyone stupid enough to go on the public airways and call my potential customers "rats" deserves everything he gets. That's a real talent he's got there: it insures an audience of mean and nasty far right partisans and guarantees it will never grow past point X. We definitely need more of that. There is a difference between hard-hitting discourse and insulting, childish crap. He's all yours, you give him a job.

 

[grantchester]

The word is Ensure.

 

[gbsncmtr]

From the American Heritage Dictionary . . .

USAGE NOTES: Assure, ensure, and insure all mean "to make secure or certain." Only assure is used with reference to a person in the sense of "to set the mind at rest": assured the leader of his loyalty. Although ensure and insure are generally interchangeable, only insure is now widely used in American English in the commercial sense of "to guarantee persons or property against risk.".

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Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
Copyright © 1997 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

[grantchester]

Thanks for the usage note. I assure you, the word is ensure. Insure connotes guarantee against loss or harm. Thanks for looking it up.
Back to David: I think 'spin' is off target in his criticisms. Of dozens of conservative-oriented talk hosts, David is one of the better informed, and least likely to follow a partisan line of attack. Maybe your advertisers should stick with AirAmerica... oh, nevermind.
PS- David, I miss ya.
g

 

[TheSpinMan]

The word is Ensure.

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in‧sure  /ɪnˈʃʊr, -ˈʃɜr/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-shoor, -shur] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, -sured, -sur‧ing.

–verb (used with object) 1. to guarantee against loss or harm.
2. to secure indemnity to or on, in case of loss, damage, or death.
3.to issue or procure an insurance policy on or for.
4. ensure (defs. 1–3).
–verb (used without object) 5. to issue or procure an insurance policy.

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[Origin: 1400–50; late ME; var. of ensure

 

[TheSpinMan]

Thanks for the usage note. I assure you, the word is ensure. Insure connotes guarantee against loss or harm. Thanks for looking it up.
Back to David: I think 'spin' is off target in his criticisms. Of dozens of conservative-oriented talk hosts, David is one of the better informed, and least likely to follow a partisan line of attack. Maybe your advertisers should stick with AirAmerica... oh, nevermind.
PS- David, I miss ya.
g

I am the advertiser. To be quite honest with you, and your "Air America" snap shows it, it is getting harder and harder for any national account to do business with the "local talkers". There is starting to be a lot you guys just don't get any more. You blame it on the station management, but they are just reacting to us. Your idealogy is blinding you to business realities. It's impossible to even talk to you guys, if someone tells you it looks like rain, you start screaming at them they must be a "Democrat!" EEEK! A "Liberal". Did you ever think maybe someone just thinks your freaking wrong?

It is amusing you answered my posts exactly as I described Gold answering the post from the guy from Louisiana. My posts have absolutely nothing to do with politics, they are discussing why you local guys are driving away all the national accounts by going overboard on the hate rhetoric. I described how Gold's "rat" screed hurt my business. And your response is "well, its good for Zee Party, so shutten zee up!" Screw you man, I'm paying you, and if you want to eat, you better listen, and I could give a rat's pootie what your or my politics are when it comes to business.

Pretty soon you'll all be down to penis enlargement ads and gold scams. You clowns just don't get what is going on out there. Take the illegal immigration issue: instead of discussing policies and laws, a lot of you are turning this issue into direct attacks on the Mexican people. The are 'criminals' and 'terrorists'. Your rednecks callers then call in and just about turn your shows into Klan meetings. Here's what they really are: my customers. Lots of them are US citizens who are the children of illegals, or Texas citizens who've intermarried with them. They are the growing demographic out there, and the ones buying the used trucks and the tires and the auto parts and diapers and every other mass consumer product, and you can scream until you're red state red in the face, 12 million of them ain't going anywhere. Even more pathetic, all of the ones I know hold conservative opinions on every social issue. You are eating your own young. Stop going after these people, and turn the discussion to what the real problems are, like our inabilty to get anything done in our own Congress that might stop more of them coming, for instance.

Instead of handling this issue in a way that doesn't hurt your advertisers, you play your own angle: wannabe GOP political operatives. Give us all a break and give it a rest. You've got to have a huge national audience to play these angles, doing it in Dallas/Ft Worth and Houston markets is going to put all of you out of a job in the long term. I know my company isn't going to place anything with anyone who is involved in this crap. Our money is better spent on the Hispanic format stations.

 

[grantchester]

Take a deep breath... now relax. OK?
First- you assume an awful lot about my politics, and you assume wrong.
Second- There are a lot of conservative talk show hosts out there. Why are you picking on the one who is no longer on the air?
Third- If you really are someone who buys advertising locally, why aren't you telling this to your account rep? He has a lot more sway over what gets on the air than I do.
Fourth- My AirAmerica quip was a lame joke on the fact that AirAmerica is no longer on the air in DFW. It didn't draw any local advertising to speak of. Where were you when they needed you?
Fifth- your business relies on the trade of undocumented immigrants who work for the lowest wages of any workers, and send all the money they can spare back home? That doesn't sound like a good economic model.
Sixth- (to gbs) The correct word is Ensure. The common usage for Insure is included in the dictionary, but that doesn't make it correct. People use flouder for founder, for instance.

Ok, have at.

g

 

[TheLaffer]

Thanks for the usage note. I assure you, the word is ensure. Insure connotes guarantee against loss or harm. Thanks for looking it up.
Back to David: I think 'spin' is off target in his criticisms. Of dozens of conservative-oriented talk hosts, David is one of the better informed, and least likely to follow a partisan line of attack. Maybe your advertisers should stick with AirAmerica... oh, nevermind.
PS- David, I miss ya.
g

Least likely to follow a partisan line of attack? HaaHaaa David Gold is a right wing nut and is borderline mean-spirited.

 

[grantchester]

Many of you on this board know who I am. Many of you know where I work, and that I make it a point not to discuss things that concern my employers. I must admit I rarely agreed with David, and some of his attitudes could be, as Mr. Laffer says, borderline mean spirited. But I like David, and I think it's borderline vicious to attack someone after he has just lost a job. Anyone who doesn't like what they hear on a station can contact that station and explain their views. Personal attacks on this discussion board just show what a small-minded and mean person the attacker is.
It's happened to me, and while I can forgive, I do not forget.

g

 

[klifhanger]

SPINMAN: In your world "Local" has nothing to do with it. You would rather dictate what the locals should hear instead of what they want to hear. So you go to the net,the national syndicators and keep some locals out of work. Not all LOCAL talk hosts are the same despite their politics. Not everyone in Texas is a conservative ,liberal,moderate,etc. Your problem is ,you paint with one brush in one stroke,rather than looking at the variety to buy time with. Narrow in focus,and missing the whole picture. Sure you made money,but you could and can make more if only you ad guys would open up your eyes more. See what each market REALLY has rather than hold a preconceived notion. You WILL BE surprised,and pleasantly at that.

 

[TheLaffer]

Many of you on this board know who I am. Many of you know where I work, and that I make it a point not to discuss things that concern my employers. I must admit I rarely agreed with David, and some of his attitudes could be, as Mr. Laffer says, borderline mean spirited. But I like David, and I think it's borderline vicious to attack someone after he has just lost a job. Anyone who doesn't like what they hear on a station can contact that station and explain their views. Personal attacks on this discussion board just show what a small-minded and mean person the attacker is.
It's happened to me, and while I can forgive, I do not forget.

g

Excuse me??? Where did i ATTACK David Gold. I simply said i think he's a right wing nut who can be Mean-Spirited. I've heard his show. It's my opinion and it happens to be a fact.

Why is it with some of you who think someone is attacking another just because YOU don't like what's being said. I DO hope David finds work. He's a good talent i just don't agree with his politics and name calling but i also feel it's his right to do that.

 

[grantchester]

Laffer? Why did you think I was accusing you of attacking David Gold? All I did was agree with you. You haven't been making personal attacks on these boards, have you?

 

[TheLaffer]

Laffer? Why did you think I was accusing you of attacking David Gold? All I did was agree with you. You haven't been making personal attacks on these boards, have you?

Read them. Determine yourself. :

 

[grantchester]

Laffer, it's not about you. Unless you want it to be. Look within your heart. Is there something you wish to confess?

 

[TheLaffer]

Laffer, it's not about you. Unless you want it to be. Look within your heart. Is there something you wish to confess?

I have no earthly idea what you're screaming about. : I have made it crystal clear on this board how i feel about the industry both Good AND Bad. I pull no punches. I call it like i see it.