Posted by
Mike on Saturday, April 14, 2007 2:08:28 AM
When Coulter got canned as a contributor for National Review Online a
few years ago, did she ever make a fuss, calling the NRO editors all
sorts of bad names, even going so far as to challenge their
virility. Well, pundits, take notice. Entitlement does not
extend to your jobs anymore than it does to other peoples' jobs, except
for a few in protected classes of government. You folks are
expendable just like everyone else in a market economy. The key
is to keep doing a good job and hope that your boss is paying
attention. Don't offend too many people in the exercise of your
freedom of speech 'cause they may just demand that you all be
fired. Listen carefully, particularly you narcissistic fat cats
who take such pride in apologising for capitalism and bragging about
your zip code addresses and six figure incomes. Few people give a
damn about that kind of stuff. As they said about certain Middle
Eastern nations, "Be careful, you may be next."
No one is decreeing, nor should anyone, that Nielsen ratings are the
sole basis of who gets to be on a syndicated radio or television talk
show. Ratings are only an indication to commercial sponsors of
how many Americans tune in, and where these people live, so that the
sponsors can use this data to make rational decisions about selling
more products. They don't guarantee your jobs, pundits!
Those same sponsors may not want to support you because of all of the
people you offend deeply who don't tune in to your shows and therefore don't
show up in the ratings surveys. That is called "business
judgment" and is absolutely indispensible to the smooth running of a
free market economy.
And government does have a legitimate role to play in all of this, folks. Just ask the FCC.