Re: A Thousand Points of Light
Dear Youngin' (I mean that nicely of course, feel lucky you're young)
> Where is the RUMOR here?
There is no specific rumor here, only a reference to them. I recommended they go by the wayside. All rumors do is screw with people's heads and anyone who engages in perpetuating what they know to be rumors are just doing it because they get off on it.
> yes the person admitted that they
> do not have all the facts, but they were dead on about Danny
> being left go for whatever reason!
That same person admitted they didn't post it for all of reasons everyone speculated about. It was openly admitted by the poster that the poster did not give a damn about Danny.
> I have been on both
> sides of the fence on this issue and I can tell you when I
> was left go, the rumor mill on the owner's side was busy
> weaving a story as to what happened to me since they did not
> want to publically admit to canning me. People ran into me
> and gave me every possible reason for my exit except for the
> truth.
I remember when you were let go. My question to you is, did you find out the stories as to the reason you were let go from everyone else or the owners themselves? Because I'll guarantee you this, when you were let go, you were not a thought beyond that to them. And speaking generally, people are not thinking about you as much as you think they are. In the business world, radio or any other, once they let you go, they move on. I highly doubt they were spending any extra time "weaving" anything. It's a simple fact, once you're gone, you become an after thought and they move on with business.
> Also, like it or not, on a discussion board, pot shots will
> be taken at Forever or any owner for that matter. How much
> dribble did I read on this board about how the Simpsons are
> monsters and they get rich at the expense of their staff.
> Do you know the Simpsons? Do you know how they treat
> people? I think Ted and Cary are the salt of the earth
> truthfully. They treat their people LIKE PEOPLE!!! I did
> not see anyone yelling that things should not be said about
> them when it was hapenning.....but take a shot at Forever
> and HAIL CEASAR...we should be stoned!!!
I wasn't around for the Simpson thing but if someone put something nasty up here about Ted and Cary, I'd have blasted them just like now. It happens I know them both. I think they are two businessmen with the same human frailties as any other. They just play the business nicer than most.
> Its a radio board and part of that will include rumors and
> slams from time to time. That is the nature of the biz...
The nature of the biz? That's a feeble excuse to attempt to allow the continuance of such shittiness to occur over and over.
> and yes I am sure that Danny feels badly about his
> situation,
ya think????
> but its not really that PERSONAL to talk about
> it. When you are a public figure and you take a job that
> puts you in the spotlight, people can and do talk about you.
> If you were slamming his relationships, or him directly as
> a person, thats one thing...but to talk about the guy losing
> his job does not seem to cross any boundaries to me.
Maybe it ain't personal to you but did you ask Danny that same question? His job was not part of a relationship? It was part of a BUSINESS relationship. One that has been severed by his employer. And I think disclosing his loss of a job on a public board is talking about him directly as a person.
> Heck, a few years ago when Kevin Nelson was yanked off the
> air at WRSC by the Dame Regime it was blasted all over the
> newspapers and various boards. No one seemed to feel that
> this was wrong for Kevin and his family. Everyone felt for
> the guy and we were all rooting him on! Thats what radio
> people are supposed to do when one of our own is down...we
> rally together for them!
I've known Kevin Nelson for at least 20 years. Served on a few non-profit organization boards with him. Kevin is a great man just like Danny is a great man. And I know Theresa Nelson as well. What people don't know is that it was SHE that brought in the media. She is allowed to do that, she had a right to do it. What most people don't realize about Theresa is that she's a one person publicity wheel if and when she wants to be. Most of the time, she sits quiet until she's provoked. It was she that disclosed the reasons for Kevin's firing. The media worked with her on the movements of that story, they didn't start it and it didn't start by someone from the outside posting it on a board.
> Just my take anyway,
I'm not blasting you for your opinion, son. You are entitled to have one. But, it's still shitty for anyone to just go on a public board and pour out someone's laundry.