[BC] Localism/personal habits

[Fred Gleason]

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 19:20, Rich Wood wrote:
> I don't consider religious propaganda to be public service.

Hmm.  It seems that we've at last reached the core of the whole argument 
against 'religious' broadcasting.  You consider it 'propaganda'.  Doubtless 
there are many who would agree.  However, the continued viability of 
Christian radio outlets (many of which are wholly listener-supported) would 
suggest that there are also many who would regard this soi-disant 
'progaganda' as being rather more important than traffic reports from the 
local interstate.  Both sides are certainly entitled to their opinions, but 
as a person who evidently prides himself on understanding the wants and needs 
of the listening public, it might be a wiser policy to seek to understand 
what motivates this portion of the radio audience, rather than simply 
dismissing them as a mob of ignorant crazies.

Of course, there's nothing to prevent a station from doing *both* --i.e. 
carrying both Christian content *and* traditional 'public service' type 
programming.  I've had the privilege of working with many Christian formatted 
stations over the years that do just that, with notable success.

In the end, I quite like Donna's (and her Mom's!) approach, that we treat 
others as we'd like to be treated ourselves.  Come to think of it, I seem to 
recall that being a prominent part of the message espoused by a certain 
Jewish carpenter from Galilee as well.

Ok, enough pontificating.  Time to get back to debugging this gnarly bit of 
code...

Cheers!


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