Re: RE: Labor Board Issues Three Complaints Against WW1

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:49:25 -0400 (EDT) Garrett Wollman
<wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
> <<On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:51:13 -0400, Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com> 
> said:
> 
> > After putting the kind of money major market operations do into 
> the
> > purchase etc. of the station, why would you settle for anything 
> less than
> > experienced top talent?
> 
> It's not clear to me that the quality of the traffic reporters 
> matters
> as much as the quality of the traffic information.  A station which
> cared about having useful traffic reports would be better served
> paying for helicopter maintenance, at least in this market.  I've
> heard ample evidence to the effect that the traffic reports in 
> Boston
> should be considered works of fiction.
> 
> -GAWollman

If you accept anything less than top talent (that includes the knowledge,
ability and willingness to gather accurate information just like in news)
then what you end up with is exactly what you have now, fictional
accounts of traffic in Boston.
df