To whom it may concern:

Please allow me to use this opportunity to ask you some questions about the responsibility (or lack thereof) you may have when it comes to harnessing the power and potential of the broadcast medium for "winning of hearts and minds," never mind any patsies and bromides you may want to resort to claiming that your shows should be looked upon in the context of "entertainment" rather than news and information--with particular regards to this being an election year, where your resort to fear, vitriol, pandering to the basest of emotions and paranoia, among other vices, is more likely to be pronounced.

May I proceed:

• Are you not (un)consciously (un)aware of the likelihood that some of your most avid listeners could be among the most vulnerable to suggestion, and the influences thereof?
• Are you not (un)consciously (un)aware that the vulnerability I just referenced may be attributable to mental and/or psychoemotional disorders aggravated by the likes of alcoholism, drug addiction or dependency, abuse and/or mistreatment in childhood, dysfunctional parents or even the effects of veneral disease?
• Are you not (un)consciously (un)aware that the vast majority of these vulnerable elements among your listening audience can be said to come from the lower socioeconomic classes, known to be all the more likely to associate with the Dregs of Society, among other elements weird and/or unwholesome?
• Are you not (un)consciously (un)aware of the proverb that "actions have consequences"? And how such would apply within the context of remarks made on your programme, especially such with tendencies towards hatemongering, bigotry, prejudice, discrimmination, etc.--and especially so the likelihood of your using "patriotism" and "national honour," among other patsies, to excuse such remarks?
• Are you not (un)consciously (un)aware of the clear and present danger for your remarks, depending on the tone, nuance, subtleties and shades of meaning thereof, being motivation enough for certain vulnerable and/or easily-influenced listeners to carry out acts, deeds and exploits which are likely to cause physical, mental and/or psychological harm or injury--perhaps even death--against members of specific and identifiable National Minorities as are targets of your hatemongering, let alone your packaging such as "harmless entertainment"?
• Are you not (un)consciously (un)aware of the likelihood that the perpetrator(s) of such sinister acts, deeds and exploits could invoke the influence of your programmes, and the messages carred on same, as motivation therefor if and when questioned by police, never mind the possibility of their pleading insanity to avoid more serious consequences (even considering the likelihood for Hate Crimes enhancements)?
• Are you not (un)consciously (un)aware of the likelihood that you may be asked to testify as a witness in any court proceedings as a consequence of such acts, deeds and exploits influenced by your programme's comments, even if you deliver such via video link? And that you will be testifying under oath, (un)consciously (un)aware of the consequences for Perjury?
• What sort of liability would you have for the ensuing consequences caused by the acts, deeds and exploits of some emotionally unstable listener who takes your remarks to be a call to violence, let alone a valid legal defence?
• Have you no shame?
• Have you no sense of Decency, Sir, @ long last?
• Have you left no sense of Decency?

I ask you these questions out of a clear and sincere concern for the likelihood that your remarks could too easily be taken so literally that physical and/or psychoemotional harm, fear and even death could ensue under the wrong set of circumstances, and in the hands and mind of some emotionally-unstable or overzealous listener crossing the line as a result. Not to mention ask what sort of liability you would have if you were @ least indirectly implicated.

Perhaps it was time you realised that "actions have consequences," and the wrong sort of actions could mean all the more serious consequences on your end. In such instances, what sort of remorse would you have, if any?

What steps would you try to take to avoid the likelihood of scandal, all the while unaware that scandal may already have caught up with you to the point of damage being done to your name and career?

Or have you no sense of remorse by deliberate and spineless choice?

In any case, the stakes are too great to recognise the consequences as will likely be laid upon your good name and repute.

Awaiting some logical-sounding and rational answers, I am

 Disobediently yours,
ILUDIUM PHOSDEX
(die egte artikel--aanvaar geen plaasvervangers)

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MEMO TO BLOG READERS: You are strongly encouraged and advised to share this Open Letter to not just your friends, but also to those hosting conservative talkback radio programmes--and your local radio stations as carry them, usually on a syndicated basis.

But do so responsibly; in other words, avoid "spamming" and keep your remarks polite, yet professional.

It's the voices of conservative talkback radio especially as need to "get the message"--before something serious happens. As in reminding them of the consequences of their abusing such a powerful medium, let alone its power and intrusion, for dangerous and sinister ends.

Otherwise--?

But don't come crying to me.