Re: Jim Cramer Why Radio is dead.

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> On Mar 23, 3:34 pm, "David Eduardo" <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Telamon" <telamon_spam****...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In article <AFmFj.4256$qT6.3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > "David Eduardo" <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> 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 
> > >> cor****ate 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.
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> "Troca" ~ Spanglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish
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> Spanish & Chicano English
> http://www.pbs.org/speak/education/curriculum/high/spanish/
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> > We ambushed him by having two university professors who explained how
> > language changes.
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> - It made for informative radio, with the entertainment value
> - of a nutcase who wanted to roll language usage back 100 years.
> 
> Sounds like L'Académie Française and their Annual Exorcism
> of English Word Usage that creaps into theFrench Language

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Now you are going to give Eduardo a Spanish lesson? Now that is funny.

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Telamon
Ventura, California