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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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In article ,
"David Eduardo" wrote:

When I was programming our talk station in LA, I would
periodically acquire these critters from the audience...
disgruntled listeners who disagreed with a host's opinions or our
use of the language or something even less fathomable. Some would
call the station manager, some would even call the corporate
offices or write to the newspapers. I really enjoyed this, since
the complaints to a supposed higher level generally had enough
data in them for one of our host to call the complainer on the air
and grill them, which made for really entertaining radio and put
the troll in its place.

Isn't that wonderful you used the bully power of your media outlet
to kill off dissenting opinion. You must be proud.

These trolls were not ordinary complainers... thery were nut cases of
the first water and there was considerable entertainment value in
their behaviour. In addtion to complaining, they were rude or obscene
or personally offensive to myself and my staff.

One was a character who thought himself the protector of the Spanish
language, and who objected to the use of the term "troca" for "pickup
truck" instead of the traditional "camioneta" which nobody uses on
the street. The guy would write 7 and 8 page letters about language,
failing to see that word usage is dynamic.

We ambushed him by having two university professors who explained how
language changes. It made for informative radio, with the
entertainment value of a nutcase who wanted to roll language usage
back 100 years.

You pit your whole organization against one guy in order to collect
intelligence and then had someone else pummel the guy. How brave.

That is entirely what talk radio is about... it's a sport, not an
intellectual excercise. The whole idea is to do the same thing as the
WWF does: provide an entertainment. Ask any major market talk
programmer... or any well rated host, from Limbaugh to Hannity.

You really are a scum-bag.

You really don't get the fact that talk radio is entertainment, not
news.

Just because it is entertainment does not mean it can't be informative.

I don't know where your rules of engagement come from but pitting a team
of people against one guy is not what I would consider "sporting" or
"fun." That is just a setup.

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Telamon
Ventura, California