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box_in_the_box (box_in_the_box) wrote in scans_daily,

I was the head of two radio stations - one in Japan, another in Italy (both run by and for Americans) - and I'd expect even non-radio experts to know (as one poster already mentioned) the delay-to-air switch, which our stations insisted upon to safeguard us against things like trainee DJs saying stupid shit on the air. Also, speaking as someone who's actually worked as a journalist since 1997, even a radio station is going to want to run with more details with this, not in the least because, as you should recall from your own radio experience, you can receive serious fines from the FCC for even minor broadcasting infractions, which makes radio vastly less spontaneous than people tend to think. This was not a flash flood or a hurricane warning or any other type of urgent emergency that absolutely needed to be reported immediately. By rushing to report it right away, they HAD to have known that they would guarantee that he would rush off, leaving them with no evidence of their claims other than their own say-so (because IT'S A FUCKING RADIO STATION, so they don't even have CAMERAS), which would shoot their journalist credibility to shit if and when Dan Hartigan simply said, "No, they're lying," and pulled a Silver Age Superman by using his super-powers to trick everyone into thinking that he DOESN'T have super-powers. So, from top to bottom, every single aspect of this scene was 100-percent stupid.