2/25/2007

Looks like as good a time as any for….SVEN’S SOAPBOX !!! An occasional feature loaded with stuff that’s been putting my fangs on edge lately…like… STUPID RADIO PEOPLE – there are some incredibly dumb people on the radio who think they’re smarter/more clever than they really are. The only news they actually read are bits and pieces that their producers hand them for use on air. Pick up a newspaper and read it once, will ya? When I was doing radio, I always felt that I had an obligation to keep up on current news and information, even if my job was more entertainment than information. I noticed that talk radio was a place where misinformation was easily put on the air, such as when someone would ask a question, and someone who knew the “answer” would call with totally unsubstantiated information- and then receive dinner for two somewhere as a reward! I think a lot of that has diminished, with most radio people having a computer right at their side to look up stuff- not to say that there isn’t false info on the web, but there’s a better shot at finding real info. Also-radio folks, especially deejays- try to learn something in your whole life. I heard one genius reading about an event that took place in “Minnesota- I guess that’s a suburb of Minneapolis…” Sure! Like Kansas is a suburb of Kansas City! Hey, I know I’m not infallible –but- didn’t these people graduate from grammar school?! By the way, that includes the TV people who do the graphics- words on screen- during the cold weather, saying “busses” were not running. “Busses” are- kisses…look it up! If you mean public transportation- you mean “BUSES”… Something else I meant to complain about… PRESIDENT’S DAY DISRESPECT!!! …it was bad enough that Martin Luther King Day was an opportunity for businesses to have wacky sales-the trend continued- as it always does- to this holiday “honoring” the memory of our presidents. One shoe store “honored” legendary statesman Abraham Lincoln in its commercials- by portraying him on a five dollar bill- WEARING A RED CLOWN NOSE!!! What’s next- George Washington with the wind-up chattering teeth (WOODEN wind-up chattering teeth, of course)…or FDR sitting on a whoopee cushion?! And finally- OVERLY-LONG BLOGS FULL OF COMPLAINTS!!! Anyone who writes those is a definite moron…