Off the topic, but since Goofball feels impelled to lie about me yet again, let me set the record straight.

When I was news director at KORD in Pasco, Washington, I had nothing to do with the national news. That all came in on a feed from the ABC radio network, of which KORD was an affiliate. I was responsible for assembling and reporting the local news, and in my tenure in that position, there was little or no local political news for me to report. There was a fair amount of local news available, too much to broadcast it all, so it was my job as news director to determine what the listeners would be most interested in hearing.

And I was answerable to the station manager, so that obviated any tinkering or slanting of the news on my part, even if I had wanted to. And there was no reason for me to want to.

My other duties consisted of several hours a day as a disc jockey, and spending some time in the production room taping commercials and public service announcements.

My broadcasting job in Seattle was as an announcer at a classical music station, play (obviously) classical music, most of which the program director selected, but some of which I was free to choose myself. I read about five minutes of news at the top of the hour, every two hours, but I didn't write that myself, I read what came in on the UPI and AP teletypes, which was what I was supposed to do.

Prior to my getting my first radio job, I took an eight month training course at a broadcasting school in Seattle, during which we took classes in all aspects of being a radio or television announcer, including how to read a news story prior to airing and check it for general bullshit content.

And I haven't forgotten those skills.

Goofball, your above screed is merely another example of you taking things I have posted about myself and twisting them in an effort to make me look bad.

In addition to being a clueless sod, Goofball, you are, as I have said before, a LIAR! And you're not even a good liar.

Don Firth