[BC] Ethics

[Tom]

Wow!  I don't think it could be said much plainer - or better - than 
that!  THIS is the "olden days" everyone yearns for - not the days of 
home-brew transmitters with exposed HV wiring.....

I'd like permission to use this, if I may... who do I contact?

Dana Puopolo wrote:
> This comes from Pappas Telecasting a TV/radio company. If you have ever met
> Harry Pappas (I have), you know he is a tough businessman who means what he
> says. Though I don't agree with everything he does or says, I have the utmost
> respect for him.
>
> Maybe it's time for more companies to do what his (very successfull) company
> strives to do every day. See, you can make money and serve the public intrest
> at the same time!
>
> One more thing-his employee turnover is almost zero and I don't believe that
> he has ever laid off anyone.
>
> -D
>
>
> Mission Statement
>
> Our duty is to serve the public interest, convenience and necessity. A true
> broadcaster has to perform two roles comfortably: one, that of public trustee,
> and the second, that of responsible businessperson. Our business interests
> cannot supersede or contravene our duty as public trustee.
>
> The Federal Communications Commission states, "Programming is the essence of
> broadcasting." All material we broadcast must be truthful. We must seek to
> serve the needs, tastes and interests of the public we serve in each local
> area. We entertain, inform, educate and stimulate our audiences. Our newscasts
> must adhere to the highest and best standards and traditions of broadcast
> journalists. Where programming is supplied by others, we must endeavor to
> persuade our content providers that contemporary community standards of
> decency and good taste are to be respected, and that we seek to broadcast
> programming with a due regard for the conventions, beliefs, morals and
> religious values of the various persons who together represent the communities
> we are obliged to serve.
>
> We believe a company is a group of persons united by common purpose and high
> standards, whose ambition is to achieve a collective success arising from the
> contribution of their unique skills, insight, diligence, hard work and
> inspiration. We seek to associate with ladies and gentlemen who treat others
> as they deserve to be treated.
>
> We know that we work for our audiences first, our advertisers second, our
> colleagues third.
>
> We believe that whatever we conceive, we can achieve if it is consistent with
> dignity, honor, principle and our duties.
>
> We are broadcasters.
>
>
>
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Tom Spencer
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