It was 6-months-yonder-from my November 19 post about radio-heading-for-the-rocks.
So, without researching trade press morgue for their names, let's simply recall that, on that day, EVEN MORE PEOPLE GOT FIRED.
Just in the last few days, when stations were too automated/syndicated/voicetracked-in-advance to properly react, the death of Michael Jackson reminds us that radio's slip is showing.
Time for Plan B:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OIXjs6xddMHC
www.HollandCooke.comhttp://getonthenet.com/09June.pdfAnd when tabloid trash and the death of Michael Jackson overshadow the plight of a people struggling to be free in Iran, and being killed in the streets over it; or a ruthless dictator in Central America getting support from our own government, radio's and tv's whole arse is hanging out...and it ain't perty.