Amish Paradise by Weird Al played on the End

[dan_greenberg1500]

Very classy Lazlo.

 

[WarpFactor]

Yes, but what about the roll banner? Was there any mention of the roll banner?

Any mention at all?

 

[biffhenderson]

If this is true, he should lose his job immediately!

 

[OttoM]

yes.com says it aired at 2:55 this afternoon.

 

[AQH]

Tasteless.

But you know what?

It has the market talking.

 

[beef]

If this is true, he should lose his job immediately!

Fire him? For that? My you're sensitive (and I'm a parent of a 7yr old girl). Very reactionary. Just dont listen and tell everybody you know how bad the End is but remember: Laszlo didn't kill anybody and Seattle ain't Amish country. By the way, only heard Laszlo once, while driving through KC and thought he was a negative creep taking the easy way out on every break by being cynical and hateful. Lazy

 

[biffhenderson]

Sensitive? Four children were shot execution style in Amish Country. Playing a parody song called "Amish Paradise" was horribly inappropriate and repulsive. If a jock can lose his job for letting the "F" word accidentally fly, why wouldn't this qualify as a firing offense? This was the third school shooting in two weeks, and it is absolutley abhorent that a radio station would allow an air personality to attempt to make light of the situation.

 

[hellskitchen85]

Absolutely disgusting!!! I agree with Biff, when I read this on the front page I was sickened and had to read this.

You may be in Seattle, miles away from Lancaster, PA but that is no way to treat sweet people like the Amish, not to mention to cut up the life of Lancaster County, PA which if you ever went there it is one of the most beautiful areas around the country.

That is a shame The End, very tasteless programming!!! Lancaster and the rest of the country is grieving over what happened yesterday. Hell it made bold headlines on most newspapers.

I live in Delaware only 40 miles from the scene and I am heartbroken, I would never capitalize off of something so horrible.

Whoever aired it should be terminated immediately and sent to a mental institution. To think any of this is funny, is sick.

 

[djdan]

Insensitive and tastless. I hope Entercom has the decency to let those involved go. Five innocent girls are killed and a Seattle radio station thinks its funny. Maybe I am getting old at 35, but as listener that was enjoying changes at the END, I am gone from that station. It is off my preset.

As a regional rep, I can't imagine what KNDD advertisers will think of this little stunt. It was advertisers that got the morning show kicked off a NY station when a parody was played after the hurricane in Thailand. It was advertisers that got Greaseman kicked off of his DC station after MLKing jokes.

Entercom is a good company and will do the right thing. Radio should push the envelope, but there is a line that can't be crossed for ratings. KNDD just crossed it. If Entercom doesn't apologize and take action against those involved, they will pay the price once advertisers realize what happened.

 

[beauduran]

Radio should push the envelope, but there is a line that can't be crossed for ratings. KNDD just crossed it.

But it's such a fine line. What is over the line to you is completely acceptable to someone else. That's a slippery slope I've been down and it isn't fun. I'd venture to guess the majority of The End's listeners (younger males) probably weren't offended by this. Was this in the best of taste? Of course not. Should someone lose their job over it? Of course not.

Other similar incidents were brought up earlier in the thread: The Miss Jones fiasco at HOT 97 in NYC and Greaseman in DC. Those incidents involved universally accepted racial slurs being used on the air which is what led to the punishments handed down.

I didn't hear The End today, so I have no idea the context in which the song was played. But if it was simply the song being played as I'm led to believe, I don't see how it's punishable. Would it still be offensive if he played the song next Tuesday? What if he played it in a year? Does this mean we need to rip this Weird Al CD off store shelves???

 

[beef]

Is this the Beau Duran who tried to date Daryll Kile's widow in PHX? If so...your boyfriend Holmberg totally threw you under the bus. He treated you like cheap, just used toilet paper. People in America feel like they have the God-given right to not be offended. Where in the Constitution does it say we're protected from that. Worse things happen than an idiot DJ playing a song that offends you, you weak, gutless, whiny weirdos. But it was tasteless

 

[CCMilesD]

I didn't hear The End today, so I have no idea the context in which the song was played. But if it was simply the song being played as I'm led to believe, I don't see how it's punishable. Would it still be offensive if he played the song next Tuesday? What if he played it in a year? Does this mean we need to rip this Weird Al CD off store shelves???

If this was a song by "The Killers" called Amish Paradise, sure no big deal, the song would probably be a part of the regular play-list. Weird Al isn't played regularly on the End. I didn't hear it either, but when a station goes out of its way, and breaks format to play a song that is used to poke fun at a group of people that happen to be going through a pretty huge tragedy at the moment, its a big deal. I'm not a very overly sensitive person who looks for reasons to get angry or upset....but this was really a jerk move.

Has anyone heard anything more about this? Any response from the station?

 

[AQH]

yes.com says it aired at 2:55 this afternoon.

They actually played it just before 11 in the morning and again at 12:30 in the afternoon.

 

[OttoM]

They actually played it just before 11 in the morning and again at 12:30 in the afternoon.

Yes they did. So that's three plays - including the one at 2:55 PM.

 

[D7]

Has anyone heard anything more about this? Any response from the station?

I'm trying to care... but ... .ummm.. Nope.

You may not have noticed, but society has already become desensitized to school shootings. Do you actually know how many there have been since Columbine? The only thing that made this one surface for 2 days was that the Amish were involved.

Save it for a real 'national tragedy' that all the soccer moms can get behind. No one is going to care about this one.

As to whether or not people 'should' care... of course not. The station has infringed on no ones rights, broken no obscenity laws, and people have the ability to change the station. That said - common sense and mass media rarely go together.

 

[dan_greenberg1500]

So if a jock decides to play audio of a civilian beheading like Marconi in Portland did a few years back, we should accept it now because there have been a number of those since Nick Berg?

Bottom line is that it was in poor taste for a station and a jock (who had been canned before) that are desperate for attention.

A friend of mine who grew up near Lancaster, PA. emailed the GM of the End Amy Grieshiemer. That was 2 days ago and yet no response. It's nice to see they run a classy operation over there.

 

[AQH]

Has anyone heard anything more about this? Any response from the station?

I'm trying to care... but ... .ummm.. Nope.

You may not have noticed, but society has already become desensitized to school shootings. Do you actually know how many there have been since Columbine? The only thing that made this one surface for 2 days was that the Amish were involved.

Save it for a real 'national tragedy' that all the soccer moms can get behind. No one is going to care about this one.

As to whether or not people 'should' care... of course not. The station has infringed on no ones rights, broken no obscenity laws, and people have the ability to change the station. That said - common sense and mass media rarely go together.

Well said.

Case in point: There's little to no follow-up about the Wisconsin principal shot dead; it's all about the Amish school girls. Being Amish and a higher body count elevates the "interest" level (affirming the old news mantra "If it bleeds, it leads").

I find it ironic how people are complaining about this, considering the bellyaching made to the supposed list of songs that Clear Channel banned from its airwaves from the corporate level.

 

[D7]

So if a jock decides to play audio of a civilian beheading like Marconi in Portland did a few years back, we should accept it now because there have been a number of those since Nick Berg?

You aren't serious are you? The playing of such an act is directly offensive in and of itself - regardless to what individual event it references. There isn't even a concept of 'too soon' with it - it would be as offensive today as it was then.

Still - if you told me in advance you'd be playing it so that I might change the station - I personally would not care. However - I can't even fathom the person who equates these two issues.

Weird Al is not offensive (to most) in and of himself.

 

[leethalweapon]

I find it interesting that people would drop a ststion/artist over something so minor. Can anybody say Dixie Chicks? This smacks of the same sort of mentality.

 

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

I find it interesting that people would drop a ststion/artist over something so minor. Can anybody say Dixie Chicks? This smacks of the same sort of mentality.

I'm not sure it's the same thing at all. In politics and in celebrity cases and so forth, people kind of "put themselves out there" and ridicule seems fair game. KIDS who through no fault of their own who face gunfire in a school and have their lives cut short are not "putting themselves out there". Real family grief is involved ... real pain ... real loss. For talent to think this is fodder for ridicule is FAR different than a song parody that would be played on Rush ... or even any of Weird Al's songs (which are NOT based on incidents like this ... and certainly OK in my book). But when a talent is clearly TRYING to push community buttons by stepping over the line .... I'd be canning the dweeb in a matter of seconds. There are just some things that can't even REMOTELY be justified as "entertainment" and demonstrate beyond any shadow of a doubt that the person lacks sufficient judgement to be given this kind of exposure and responsibility. To recognize that a person of that caliber is also in a MANAGEMENT role (and is not disciplined by the ownership) doesn't speak that well of Entercom, either.