When Radio Falls Short As News Breaks: This Week's 'The Letter'

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The radio industry has long prided itself on -- and relentlessly promoted -- its service to listeners in emergencies.  But what happens when that service falls short? 

ALL ACCESS VP/News-Talk-Sports-Podcast Editor PERRY MICHAEL SIMON was greatly disappointed by what he heard in the immediate wake of the mass murder at PITTSBURGH's TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE last weekend, and in this week's "THE LETTER FROM ALL ACCESS NEWS-TALK-SPORTS," he relates how his reliance on radio for news as it was happening led to that disappointment, how that impacts radio's news image with listeners, and how the blame sometimes belongs further up the corporate ladder than local management.

Read the column here.

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