{"id":4537,"date":"2012-04-05T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2012-04-05T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:59:16","slug":"taking-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4537","title":{"rendered":"Taking Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the first things an authoritarian leader usually does is perform a loyalty test, to purge people within the organization who don’t immediately respond and follow your orders.<\/p>\n

In the next two months, you will be hearing constant messages from Clear Channel radio stations asking that you donate money from your local community and ship it out of the state to support the City of Hope<\/a>, a cancer treatment and research center in California.<\/p>\n

Tom Taylor’s newsletter this morning describes a communication that was sent out this week to the Clear Channel clusters – Bob Pittman is being honored by the City of Hope and wants to have a great big check to hand over at the ceremony.\u00a0\u00a0 He provided specific amounts he expects each city to raise,\u00a0 and demands to have the plan to achieve that goal in his hands by Friday.<\/p>\n

The country will soon be full of children dying of cancer once Obamacare is rolled back, so surely you don’t want children to die and will give Clear Channel your money…. right?<\/p>\n

Do not underestimate Bob Pittman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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