Thanks for your comment Donaldman.
Here's the note you sent to The Detroit News:
Here's the note you sent to The Detroit News:
Topic for discussion: Clash of the Ego's....WJR
Your comments:
Talk about the 50,000 watt blow torch... maybe they should consider changing that to the 50,000 watt blow hards! I have been a fan of WJR all the way back to my childhood when my dad always tuned into the JP show and Tiger baseball.... cannot forget patterns in music.
Things have certainly changed over the years in the broad cast media industry. Take a look at the line up from 5:30 am all the way to late night and what do you really have? Massive...arrogant... heavy lean to the right... EGO'S. My first surprise is that the broad cast booth was big enough for both gigantic heads to fit into the same room.
Both Beckman AND Albom have forgot where their humble beginnings started...sports jockies who really accomplished nothing on any field of sports and ended up as critics and analyzers of games they never excelled in themselves.
Now... sitting in their protected little glass houses they can spout away about any topic they choose...AND as all radio, TV, and even print journalist can do... they have the final word. Let me give you an example. Take Rush Limbaugh for example... he is very controlling over every second of what is broad cast over the air waives... he carefully screens every one who HE chooses to come on the air... AND
then controls the tone and direction of the carefully chosen guest to his advantage and point. That is called manipulation and control of the proposed outcome. They have the ability to press the mute button at any time, over ride the conversation to make their point and can make the guest appear foolish or inept by adding back ground noises and such to hammer home their spin controlled message.
Put two people in the same booth who are used to controlling the outcome... take away their tools of advantage with removing the controls... and you have basically a celebrity death match in the making. If I were to bet on that match I would say advantage to Albom. Although Beckman is probably larger in stature and has a much bigger mouth....Albom has the unusually large cranium and could probably head butt Beckmen to death.
Funny that Albom is still around since he is the only lefty on the air at WJR... I have become so tired of the talking heads that beat the same drum over and over that I can no longer drink from the Righty cup. It has become so full of bitterness and poison I have chosen to go with a secret that few are aware of... It's called the off button! Try it sometimes and enjoy the sounds of.... well silence. It is a real treat to have in the world of non stop media buzz. Funny though...even your smart phone will try and steal that from you with every Facebook post trying to tempt you away from your moment of relaxed silence.
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