Their Time is Over

Well some time tonight I think a story about this issue will hit the wires. I don’t know what it will say, probably something like, “KSFO issues challenge to blogger, calls him a coward for not identifying himself, demands he submit for bullying on the radio for his sins of letting “Our Advertisers Hear What We Were Broadcasting”.

And it will probably suggest something like “A Very Special Episode” of Blossom of KSFO take place on their turf. Where they will bluster and attack and use either the “We were JUST Joking” or how I was so mean and “it’s all out of context” and you MUST LISTEN to the entire SHOW to understand. Right. Always remember, they “control the box” in this venues and they’ve had 10 years to practice. I’m named after a fictional character on a defunct TV show, a brain in a box. Which one of us is the professional verbal bully?

It is their advertisers they need to apologize to for not respecting the hard work they all put into their brands. Those marketers and ad reps and PR folks who busted their humps to make their product stand out only to be trashed by being next to this “Hot Talk.” Some will still choose to stay. Fine. It’s their choice.

But here’s the thing. From now on, for the rest of this station’s time in this format they will always be “that station” and a little asterisk* will be next to their name in computers of the hard working media buyers and savvy ad agency’s around the world to tell them, “Be careful who you put on This Station. This one is not like the others.”

There will always be a market for this kind of “entertainment”, it won’t go away. Some people need to get in touch with their “inner Archie Bunker” to be happy. That's fine, free speech and all that, but maybe, just maybe it won’t be a safe place for some advertisers to hang out in the future.

I’m not out of the woods yet, I know how the rightwing bloggers think and operate, they will be attacking and sock puppetting this all over the net with their VERY SERIOUS concerns. They will do what bullies always do. Watch for it. And then ask, what does that say about them. Who acts like that? Who attacks like that?

I’ve been called a hero. I’m not a hero, a hero is a journalist in the middle-east working his or her ass off to tell a story that might cost them their life. Consider donating to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

My button for donations is on the right. It’s the button for PayPal right under Spocko's United Reserves Against Killing of Journalists and Liberals (Hey that spells out SURAK, of JAL wow what a coincidence!), and I put it up only at others’ insistence, but if you don’t have money, your kind words are welcomed too.

I’m going to be out all day tomorrow because contrary to rumors on the Internets, I don’t sit in front of my monitor all day in my Homer Simpson underwear (although I would really love a pair, NTodd should look into getting a pair too). So I’m hoping that Team Spocko, and my friends and associates from the Spocko’s Brain Irregulars can keep an eye on this story and gently, politely help it stay on track.

The time of this kind of Talk Radio is over.

For the rest of you? Live Long and Prosper.