As I see it 10-17-99   I spent a lot of years working in radio and television news-as a street reporter, investigator, and manager. I have seen a lot of screwballs in the business-and one day-some years ago, I decided enough was enough-----. It was time to get out and do my own thing. And I did. And I have certainly seen my share of garbage and baloney in the radio and television business. The latest issue has to do with the out of doors and local radio personality Kevin Mathews. I have a teen-aged daughter who is in the final stretches of high school. By this time next year, hopefully-she'll be in college. I've done my best to guide her along the path of common sense-good thinking and good behavior. She's turned out alright-above average if I may say so. But she's part of an adolescent culture that is so skewed towards the bizarre that it's literally off the charts. There was an article in one of the local papers Friday that Kevin Mathews walked off his morning job on one of the city's FM radio stations. He claimed he was getting faxes from the bosses in New York telling him to lay off all the hunting talk he likes to intersperse into his various routines. Kevin has been seen on television fishing and hunting in various North American locations. It's no secret he enjoys doing what he does in the out of doors. That's the way it is. Kevin claims he was being bothered by the faxes-and decided to walk off the air. If in fact that scenario is accurate, I certainly don't blame him. And here's why. The bosses-the big shots, the boys in the $1,000 suits, like to sit in their offices in New York and pretend they are politically correct, in every manner, shape or form. They will e-mail to their heart's content-they will fax until the cows come home, and they will do lunch until their credit cards start doing the yuppie meltdown. They have no concept of what real America is all about-and they certainly have no idea what is in good taste and what is obscene. These are the bosses-the programmers who program the radio stations to play the vulgar and obscene rap music-where the people in the rap songs pretend to be recording artists-but in all reality are nothing but illiterate thugs and pied-pipers of garbage, leading kids and some young adults across a swamp of absolute insanity. If in fact that it's true Mathews was told to tone down his pro-hunting talk-those $3 bills in New York need a few lessons as to what's real and unreal. I am faxing Kevin's bosses in New York so they can dial up the Mike Jackson Outdoors Web and listen to these comments on an archived show. Dear Plastic Make Believe human beings-in New York.. It's no wonder the far right wing element and people like Jerry Fallwell in this country scream how the media is manipulated and skewed. I do not agree with anything Fallwell says-but he does have a point. It's no wonder that bosses like you don't understand that you've stepped over the line of decency by allowing the playing of pure, unadulterated garbage-and allowing personalities to spew filth and sexual innuendo on the air. It's no wonder some kids are screwed up today-because they see on television and hear on radio how society has accepted abnormal behavior for what is being touted as everyday, run-of-the-mill, socially accepted norms. And it's all for the sake of a buck. It's all done to see who can be more obscene than the next guy-just so a rating point will go up and idiotic sponsors will go bananas, throwing their money to the stations so they can influence young buyers. It's all part of the greed factor-and it continues to get worse every single day. I am confronted all the time by do-gooders--, yuppies and lost souls who need a weekly cause to get their heart's going in the morning. They all look at me with scorn because I fish and hunt. They offer their 3 cents of criticism because they believe it's not politically correct to be a hunter or angler. And for the most part-these are the same folks who will tell you they see nothing wrong in having rap music on the air-discussing booze, sex and drugs-glorifying all three like they discovered the holy grail. And New York tells Kevin Mathews to tone it down on hunting! What pure nonsense! The problem is not hunting and Kevin Mathews, but rather the problem is the boys and girls in New York-and even in Chicago who think it's acceptable to herald the present state of on-air music with it's bathtub-like ring of scum...