David Eduardo wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message
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On Sep 26, 11:59 am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message

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On Sep 26, 11:11 am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
So far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter at all. But I wonder if this
at least partially explains the enormous chip on your shoulder and
your persistent need to somehow 'prove yourself''.
Why would building a #1 station in a market with 40 signals at age 18
require proving myself... again?
It's your behavior, so you tell me.

Perhaps you worked with people who didn't have sufficient appreciation
of what you'd accomplished. Maybe they tried to use your lack of
formal education against you in some petty, political way. Who knows?

I sure don't.

This isolated piece of your personal history could have been subtly
relevant on many occasions, the cumulative effect being the chip you
now have on your shoulder.


That "chip" is a love of broadcasting, something DXers, in some significant
proportion, seem to have lost.




How dare you.

The loss of love of Broadcasting by DXers is something that is,
itself, a very late development. Most DXers didn't lose the love of
broadcasting, until they were openly discounted, disrepected, and held
in open contempt by broadcasters.

Something broadcasters, themselves, have been doing for far more than
the handful of years that DXers have been responding with disdain to.

Broadcasters have been spitting in the face of DXers for at least 30
years that I can recall. Sometimes, one on one. Sometimes, as Mark
Byford did at BBCWS, in mass media presentations, and in direct messages
on his own radio stations.

Imagine the gall of a shortwave broadcaster telling his listeners, en
masse, that his programming was intended for 'decision makers and
opinion formers' and would be made preferentially available to them,
while eliminating service to hundreds of millions of listeners at a
stroke, because they simply weren't elite enough.

We're not talking about local radio, here. We're talking about a
shortwave broadcaster. DX by design. With more than 120 million
listeners worldwide. Told in no uncertain terms that they were of no
importance, and not worth being served.

You think that may have something to do with loss of passion for
broadcasting? It sure turned my radio dial in a hurry.

I've worked at radio stations where the engineers were not permitted
to respond to listener reception reports because, and this is a quote by
the GM, "They're not worth the postage." This was in 1977.

He's by far not exclusive in my work experience.

Something you've demonstrated for some months here, yourself.

You think that may have something to do with DXer disdain?

DXers have been enthusiasts for broadcasting until only a few years
ago. They've stood by those who echo your sentiments for more than 20
years while being openly and personally dissed by Broadcasting.

How dare you display the temerity to imply that the problem is with
DXers. Look within your own ranks. Why the hell would ANYONE remain
loyal to an industry which speaks of them the way Broadcasting speaks of
Dx...the way YOU speak of DX.

Fans don't leave without cause, David. Enthusiasm doesn't die. It's
murdered.

The first slap in the face came from broadcaster themselves. Look in
your own house before you dare point a finger at your listeners.


And Broadcasting has been holding that smoking gun for decades. YOU
have pulled the trigger here, more times than I can count...in this
thread alone.

How dare you.

You arrogant son of a bitch.