[BC] Broadcasters and their community

[Sid Schweiger]

Barry Mishkind writes:  "*No* on-air
        person is ever deserving of anonymous attacks. 
        No on-air person deserves having their home
        address placed on "social media" so people can
        go by and commit any of several actions that
        they would never do if people knew who they were."

You beat me to it.  The hypocrites are the entitled teens for whom discipline and respect are unknown, and their entitled and enabling parents whose children never do anything wrong.  The reporter pulled up the curtain on these people and exposed them to public view, not to mention the other enablers, the liquor store owners and clerks who can't be bothered to check ID's (for which, in every jurisdiction with which I'm familiar, they could lose their business licenses).  Like it or not, the drinking age in the US is 21, and given the behavior of the teens who attacked/threatened the reporter, it's probably better that way.

The issue isn't whether or not drug and alcohol law enforcement are right or wrong.  In my view we have obviously learned nothing from prohibition, save that our government seems to have this uncontrollable urge to regulate individual vices, regardless of whether or not the exercise of those vices violates the rights of others.  Rather, the issue is whether the reporter "got what she deserved."  She did not.

Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom New England
20 Guest St / 3d Floor
Brighton MA  02135-2040