Hippoman, I enjoy the "tacky theater" of carney-Barkers as much as
anyone, but an Eduardo/Gleason sideshow would be a little harder to
take. Let's imagine the pitch from a tattoo-festooned Mr. David (may
God forbid):

"Step right up, morons, and witness the DECLINE AND FALL of an
entertainment medium YOU USED TO LIKE, BUT NOW DESPISE, like me!!
You're all hopelessly stupid, so c'mon up here and give it a whirl -
fritter away the HARD-EARNED CASH you scrape from your PITIFUL,
MISERABLE, NO-FUTURE hourly jobs, while you stuff lard-and-salt filled
MIDWAY-TYPE ALLEGED-FOOD down your pitiful fat little kids, who EVEN
AS WE SPEAK are SILENTLY SUFFERING the premature onset of diabetes and
arteriosclerosis BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF PARENTING SKILLS!!" Etc.,
etc......

Y'know, even though Mr. "Eduardo" reserves a special vitriol for AM
radio in general, and analog AM radio (and its licensees)
specifically, he doesn't even appear to like FM that much either.

I think Captain Spanglish is symptomatic of the type and quality of
radio industry executives who have produced the unhappy near-term
future which - if pundits are to be believed - is casting a pall of
gloom over AM & FM radio. They sit enthroned in powerful positions
they've demanded for themselves via lobbyists and a hapless, compliant
FCC, pontificating endlessly about Arbitron PPMs, the dogma of HD,
whining about competition from satellite they've brought on
themselves, all the while trashing the human components of creative
people and...ahem....LISTENERS, whom they alternately condemn and
ignore. Small wonder they've run out of ideas about how to make the
medium work.

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