Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
With inefficiency built right in to the DNA? No.You’re right, it’s probably better to have a large network of small companies that are nimble and responsive to specific geographies and labor markets.
There was a time, years ago, when station management had the flexibility to implement procedures that made sense for their market, and which other stations could replicate locally, if they were applicable. Thornton made the system inflexible, because he was too much a control freak to delegate any authority to those who had boots on the ground. The result is a system that is so dysfunctional that in order to make a profit, it has to squeeze it out of their employees benefits.
But, hey, no union that we would be totally incapable of coping with!
That's a WIN, right?