KGO Radio paying listeners for news tips

KGO Radio is paying listeners to provide news tips. I'm not making this up.

The SF Peninsula Press-Club reports that the best news tip provided by a KGO listener will reward he or she with $810 at the end of the month. If this weren't so sad and pathetic, it would be funny--wait, there's gotta be a punchline here.

I wonder how some of the station's veteran reporters feel about this. Then again, I forgot, it's Cumulus. Great way to rally the troops. Maybe they can do a Facebook contest and hire a new talk-show host too.

I hear there's an opening in the morning a year from now for a guy who likes to shill for mattress companies.

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