Poseurs

Having lived in St. Louis for almost three years now, I have discovered that St. Louisians are proud of their city, sometimes to a fault, but proud nonetheless. Many St. Louisians believe that this city has produced the best baseball, pizza, Italian food, etc, etc than any other city (especially Chicago) in the country. It's annoying and cool all at the same time.

Now, that being said, I thought it was interesting when one of the local country stations dropped their morning show last fall in favor of a syndicated show, Big D and Bubba. It's not necesarrily a huge deal. At the time, Howard Stern and Ron Joyner were in the market, so it's plausable to have another syndicated show in town. Now, the problem with these two guys is that they pretend they are from St. Louis. The other shows don't, these guys do. In fact, my wife told me the other day they had a segment (taped, of course) where they had listeners call in and give the best local St. Louis burger joints. The problem is that these guys didn't preface the segment with "we're in Nashville" and they really haven't done that; they let the competing station do that for them. Well, in this segment callers kept saying, "My favorite place is ..........., have you been there?" and the DJs had to keep saying, "uh, no we haven't".

Again, it's not a big deal to have syndication, but stop posing like you're in the city and leading listeners to believe that you're right here among the people.