Jonathan C. Puskas
Here's the response I received (I was called "foolish"
because I responded to a story I hadn't heard):
Actually, I think anyone making a judgement without
all the facts is
foolish. But I will respect your opinion and thank
you for taking the
time to write.
"Puskas, Jonathan C" <jonathan.-@intel.com>
02/02/06 3:15 PM
Mr. McHugh,
No.
I was riding my bike to work during the morning
commute (from Lake
Oswego to Hillsboro).
I consider Steve to be a reasonable person (I'm his
personal cycling
coach) so I'll take his word at face value.
I responded in unity with my fellow cyclists. These
types of
occurrences have become all-too-frequent from radio
"personalities" so
it doesn't surprise me.
Regardless of whether I heard it live or not, it IS
unacceptable
behavior.
You can call it besmirched, but candidly, the average
morning show has
done that to themselves enough times that you don't
exactly hold the
moral high ground.
Cheers,
Jonathan C. Puskas
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff McHugh [mailto:jmch-@entercom.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:04 PM
To: Puskas, Jonathan C
Subject: Re: Unacceptable behavior on the air
Mr. Puskas,
Thank you for your note. I am concerned that our
station has been
besmirched in a very reactionary and irresponsible
way. Let me tell
you
our side of the story;
I recieved precisely one complaint call about this
supposedly aired
segment. By the time I had the opportunity to respond
to this
person's
call, they had already posted a negative about our
morning show on a
bicycling discussion board. Then, when I talked to
him, this person
admitted that he had not heard the comments himself,
but had been told
about them second hand, and could not tell me when the
comments aired.
This person said that they would try to find out when
the segment
aired, so I could investigate further and respond
appropriately, as I
do
with all complaints about our programming. But up to
now, I have not
been given that opportunity.
Did you hear these comments yourself? Can you tell me
when they were
aired?
Jeff McHugh
Program Director
1051 The Buzz
"Puskas, Jonathan C" <jonathan.-@intel.com>
02/02/06 1:51
PM
Dear M. McHugh, M. Clarke, and M. Hubert:
The comments and behavior of at least two of your
employees (Terry and
Nelson) is unacceptable.
As public figures, they have recently used their
positions to support
negative stereotypes of cyclists as well as implicitly
supporting
hostile behaviors by motorists toward cyclists. This
is irresponsible
and cannot be tolerated.
In a nation where more than 60% of our citizens are
overweight or
obese,
it is a National imperative that we provide positive
support for
healthy
choices which are also environmentally sound (you'll
note the
President
Bush made references to Environmental and Health Care
needs in his
State
of the Union earlier this week).
I find it hard to believe that Entercom Communications
and its
advertisers would want to be branded as anti-health
and
anti-environment
in the Portland Metropolitan area at a time when these
are clearly
National priorities.
Cheers,
Jonathan C. Puskas
Jonathan C. Puskas
Strategic Platform Planner
Digital Health Group
Personal Health Platforms
Office: (503) 456-5267
Cell: (503) 706-3598
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Email: jonathan.-@intel.com
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--- "Long, Steve" <Steve-@clark.wa.gov> wrote:
I'm waiting to see what the station mananger, Jeff
McHugh, comes up
with. He's going to try and dig up the segment in
which this happened
(and listen to it) so we can discuss it further. He
finally returned my
phone call today. So this is good right?
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cipale [mailto:jo-@aracnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:26 PM
To: Long, Steve
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Local radio station slams
bikes being on the
road
Steve,
Might I suggest you contact the following as well:
Stephanie Strickland/Reporter KGW (A former next
door neighbor and good
friends with Matt Zafino and Dave Zalesky: Both avid
cyclists)
Go to the KGW website and you can find her email
address. She can put
the story in the hands of its rightful owner. They
went after the
dumb-asses who made fun of the mental-handicapped
that these ignominous
clusters ridiculed in the name of 'good fun'.
Isnt it funny how people like this are the ones who
are looked up to?
Joe
Long, Steve wrote:
Hello gang,
I'm sorry to say that yesterday morning, 105.1 The
Buzz, joined in
with a caller that was complaining about bicycles
being on any road
without a bike lane. Our good buddy, Nelson, seems
to think that
anything without a motor in it has no place on the
road and that
cyclists should be forced to take a taxi to their
place of riding,
indoors, and take a taxi back home again. And,
good old Terry had to
agree with the caller too because, once when he
was pulling his boat
out of the water with his Ford Excursion, and
there was a bike in the
way and it slowed him down a little.
I called them to discuss it a little this morning
and they were so
rude that I couldn't believe it. Josh answered the
phone and he was
just about as rude as could be, not even wanting
to give me the time
of day.
Yesterday, I called the Program Director of The
Buzz, Jeff McHugh and
he never even returned my call.
In this day and age, in this City of Portland, and
its Metropolitan
region, that has been labeled the friendliest
cycling city in America,
and when on this very day, there's a front page
article in the
Oregonian discussing a, nearly 2 million dollar,
add campaign targeted
at reducing the Portland Metropolitan Area's
traffic congestion, it
seems, whole heartedly, irresponsible and bad
citizenship for a public
entity as popular as the Buzz to behave in this
manner.
If any of you cares to join me in letting the Buzz
and Entercom, for
that matter, know much the Metropolitan region
disapproves of this
behavior, here are some helpful names and e-mail
addresses:
Program director for the Buzz:
Jeff Mchugh
jmch-@entercom.com
Sales Manager:
Brian Lee
bl-@entercom.com
Above these two on the food chain are:
Jeff Clarke
jcla-@entercom.com
And
Erin Hubert
ehub-@entercom.com
Some of the companies that advertise with the Buzz
are Wells Fargo The
Shane Company Safeway Allstate Les Schwab
PureRomance.com KATU
Mattress World
Perhaps we could also let their advertisers know
how much we
disapprove of this behavior and that we take
notice of companies that
support it.
Just a thought gang. I hope some of you join me.
Steve Long
NRR
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