Sometimes I Steal

Each week I am suppose to come up with an editorial to air on my two radio stations. Some weeks it is easy, others weeks it's not. And yet other weeks, I steal ideas from others. I sometimes steal just the idea, other times I steal the whole thing (when I do this I normally ask permission and it is always from someone I know in radio and we share the same views on that topic.) And other times I steal the idea and some of the words.

This week I stole the idea for the editorial and some of the lines from my newsman's blog...


Clayton Editorial 10/17/05


Several times recently people in the community have commented that we shouldn't do editorials on our radio stations. They say our role in the community is to inform and to entertain, not to shove our opinions down their throats.

I can hardly call our editorials shoving our opinion down other's throats.

Why can't local radio stations make editorial comments? Do you complain when you hear editorial comments on TV? No, you expect it. And no self respecting paper can do without an editorial page. Why should our media be excluded from expressing an editorial opinion?

Maybe it's because people have been so used to small market, home town radio stations that have cowered to making an editorial comment. When radio was king, editorial comments were expected. When something major was happening in a community, people would look toward the local station to share its opinion on the matter. shoulduld be no different in today's world.

These radio stations will continue their right to express their opinions and, as always, we will continue to invite you to share yours with us.

Our freedom of speech and the press will not be smothered because a few think we shouldn't share our opinions.

That's my view, what's yours?