Good point! Everyone's entitled to their own opinions of course! That's what makes this board different. People agree to disagree here. And that's okay. Other places are ruled with an iron fist where you must swear to never disagree and argue after you genuflect at the altar of He Who Must be Obeyed, sip from the Yellow Cup of Mediocrity, slip on rose coloured glasses, set your clock back 3 decades and remove your own testicles and fling them at the evil corporations.

I've explained this elsewhere. That particular bored is insulated by ass-kissing yes-men. Anyone and everyone who dares counter a viewpoint of one of the sainted Illuminati is quickly chastised, deleted and banned.  

That, my friend, is a true bully: to collect a bunch of angry white dashpounding geriatrics and shit on everything and anything without giving an opportunity to allow counter opinions. Your assumption of never trying to confront is false as well.

Frankly, I go there for a quick laugh and am never disappointed at the predictable circle jerk that is going on there. In the real world, however, we meet people with differing opinions and that is fascinating. Being surrounding by lemmings, trying to figure at what second a station changed formats five decades ago is hilarious. At least, they are an excellent drinking game.

Oh, okay, so posting an obit from London, England is fine?

Why is the first reaction to opposing opinions to shut down the board? Someone disagrees with the Toronto Sun and it shuts down? Not likely. Given the lack of traffic to this board well before I arrived and having no knowledge of its past history, perhaps expanding the scope of topics should be fine. 

To be blunt, my intention was simply to post one entry in this thread. But, as a courtesy and because it's allowed, I am answering you. I take no offence nor do I offer any. That is what two-way communication is all about.

@Fausto: Well there are no Bell, Rogers or Corus services in my household and I don't stare at a blank screen. 

@Bucky.  The original incarnation of this forum was shut down because someone posted that CFCA Waterloo was going to flip to Virgin Radio.  I suspect rather than face the legal & forensic headaches, the former moderator (who I know) shut it down.  A wise move. 



 

Whoa! I think I just got a sprained neck parsing the logic here. Because an individual can't buy a station without regulatory approval or interventions means they are not part of the capitalist system? One can also not buy Tylenol 3's without a prescription or start their own drug company. Are they not capitalists?

I'm referring to once the station is on the air. They answer to their shareholders, like the drug companies. They need to operate at a profit and supercede last year's numbers. If that involves human job loss, that's the nature of the biz. Do you not think Walmart terminates or doesn't replace a worker if they're over budget?

I find it fascinating that media is held to a different standard than the rest of the capitalist world. People are downsized everyday. This mass hysteria and crocodile tears of losing their favourite air jockey is beyond comical. And, yes, I have been downsized in this biz. And, yet, I continue to find work at another station.