Let's face it. Most radio talk show host and media people are whores.
You name the publication, the radio station and they are all there. Media whores are everywhere and no one has an exclusive on them. They are into their jobs for various freebies as well as ego and material satisfaction.

I never liked the "Las Vegas Golf Guru". He was a whore the first time I listened to him. He showed up at TravelGolf.com claiming he would "tell it like it is" to all who would listen. TravelGolf.com editors were conned. They were hoodwinked. "The Guru", who has a low rated Las Vegas golf show airing on Sundays at 9am, has about five listerners - most of whom are his family.

I am proud that we finally blogged this guy off of our forum. He is a dog littered with so many fleas that he needs to see a vet. Privately, Silvers would tell you that Billy Walters is a dog. He would tell you "Stallion Mountain is a pit. He would tell that to you what he thinks "off the record". On the record, he will clam up and hide behind his pathetic microphone.

That's why blogging is taking off. People now have a voice and can say what they think. Silvers cannot do that because he "makes money from these people". Why should anyone listen to what he says?

Golf is loaded with media whores. TravelGolf.com suffered the ulimate whore-ism with past CaribbeanGolf.com editor Dale Leatherman. This mut was backed and sponsored by The Caribbean Tourism Council, offering herself to do PR services to any resort while passing off her PR material to TravelGolf.com and other publication as editorial. Double dipping to the max, she accepted editorial fees while not telling her editors she was working in PR for the resorts. The Society of Travel Writers, an organization she belongs to that is geared to passing off PR flack as editorial to news organizations, has no issue with this behavior. In fact, they tacitly encourage it.

You, the reader gets conned. Your faith in journalism is destroyed. That's why bloggers are taking off.

Media whores like Silvers are finding out that no one cares what they think.

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