I don't know enough about the [Eric Ferguson] situation to comment about any of the specifics and don't pretend to. What I will say, though, is that in almost any other industry this entire situation would have been handled differently. Having spent the last 10 years in corporate America I can say for sure that none of the chicanery and obtuse ways of handling the situation would have been acceptable in a publicly-held real business. Does that mean that radio hasn't learned to operate like a 21st century business? In some cases, yes. I can't tell you how many times I heard things like \"we have to protect the billing\" from people above me when dealing with issues at radio stations I was involved with. This charade should not have gone on for so long and should have been dealt with when it first came up, if only to show that the company valued and took seriously the complaints from the women involved. Will the real story ever come out? Probably, at some point, but at this juncture who cares? As my friends at Lutheran General would say, the cancer has been eradicated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorothy Tucker, longtime investigative reporter at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 and president of the National Association of Black Journalists, has been named recipient of the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Journalists Association. The nonprofit professional organization also named Kelly Bauer, breaking news editor for Block Club Chicago, as its Chicago Journalist of the Year.... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31387,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377\/revisions\/31387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}