Posted 5:23 PM by Gene

Toenail.com is in one of those cranky moods again, as befits the home of the humorless G.B. But these things will happen when you're pretend iconoclastic. Dan sums up what seems to be the CONWIZ about ELIOT NESS'S payola crusade -- ho-hum it's low-level corruption, but the marketplace works, and besides, as THE LORD GOD ZONNNNNNNNNNN tells us, every radio has an on-off switch. To think it was only yesterday that Rog (perhaps he didn't have his daily vibes with THE RUPE!!!!!!!!!!! yet) told us payola sicced JLo on us and her "fingernail-on-blackboard" music. Just because a public official has a liking for red lights doesn't mean his crusade is invalid. And just because there are all manner of stocking fees in supermarkets doesn't make it right; God knows how much competition it squelches, and how many billions more we have to pay for groceries. (And most paid searches, DAN, are clearly identifiable as such, unlike SONY's shenanigans.) If payola is low-level corruption, it's been around long enough to distort the radio and music biz, and give lots of no-talents an undeserved light of day. As to ZONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN's wisdom, I won't repeat the line I've oft-repeated about TELEVISION, but I will say lots of listeners have been taking your advice, ZONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN, which is one reason you don't co-run VIACON anymore.