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Howie Back on WRKO on Friday

If you have some reason to be an authority on this or any radio issue, let it be known.

I've always found that being consistently right is a pretty good indicator of whether or not someone could be considered an authority on a topic.

YMMV.

Regards,
TSB
 
TSBench said:
If you have some reason to be an authority on this or any radio issue, let it be known.

I've always found that being consistently right is a pretty good indicator of whether or not someone could be considered an authority on a topic.

YMMV.

Regards,
TSB
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Hey TSB - you definitely get props from me on this one. Even if I am not necessarily pleased with the outcome (though I do like Howie on afternoons), it's fair to point out that you had it right from day one. It certainly helps to know the details of the case. At any rate, you stuck to your guns and were vindicated. Good show!

On a different note, Howie's show should be interesting this afternoon. Eating crow ain't no fun, especially when it's being force-fed to you by a not-so-likable person (the "Empress"). Ouch!

Well, I wonder how big of a muzzle he'll be forced to wear. :eek:
 
Muzzled? Why would they want him muzzled? Whatever it takes for Carr to be perceived as the vanquisher of [insert target] to make his audience feel better about themselves is what he's going to be.

But, going after Kahn and Wolfe right out of the gate is too obvious.

I suspect he'll go after the target that they can all agree on - liberal moonbats..... lots of that today, I predict.

I still want to know if the contract he signed with Greater Media had the 'right to match' provision.
 
Muzzled? Why would they want him muzzled? Whatever it takes for Carr to be perceived as the vanquisher of [insert target] to make his audience feel better about themselves is what he's going to be.

Good point. They've already tried to give him a soft landing, and it was Howie who tried to turn this into a grudge match, not WRKO. And, as we've seen with D&C, who came back and skipped nary a beat, the half life of these stories is about a day, provided you just let them lay fallow. Of course, the topic "people who screw themselves and then expect the courts to bail them out" will probably not be a topic on his show for the forseeable future, but that's more properly in the category of 'self-censorship,', if you get my drift.

But, going after Kahn and Wolfe right out of the gate is too obvious.

It also wouldn't be very bright. Howie tried the personal attack route and got absolutely no traction from it, except with the usual suspects with EDS, who would have climbed on board if St Paul had been running the station. But for everyone except radio groupies and the politcally confused, this is a non-issue; nobody knows or cares who Kahn is and Wolfe is just somebody who's name is occasionally dropped on WEEI. O&A have incorporated bleeding in public over their relations with management ( in line with Bruce Mittman's observation that they have a professional death wish) and their ratings are going into the toilet because nobody wants to hear guys making boatloads of money bitching about the people who sign the checks.

I suspect he'll go after the target that they can all agree on - liberal moonbats..... lots of that today, I predict.

If I was conspiracy-minded, I'd be asking who, Howie or Entercom, paid someone in Cambridge to diss the Boy Scouts who were collecting Chapstick and toothpaste for the troops. Jesus, you can't make this stuff up.

I still want to know if the contract he signed with Greater Media had the 'right to match' provision.

It will, I'm afraid, remain one of life's mysteries. I don't think Howie's going to discuss it, and it's probably already been discretely dropped through the shredder over on Morrissey Blvd..

Regards,
TSB
 
TSBench said:
If I was conspiracy-minded, I'd be asking who, Howie or Entercom, paid someone in Cambridge to diss the Boy Scouts who were collecting Chapstick and toothpaste for the troops. Jesus, you can't make this stuff up.
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You are right - this is a perfect topic for Howie and Carr and his audience - it's Cambridge, it's troops, it's Boy Scouts.

And, it's so obvious that polling places are the best venues to collect things for troops, given the record-setting high voter turnout, availability of appropriate items for the troops, and obvious non-political nature of the setting.

I mean, if there were other venues that offered better conditions*, a cynic might wonder why the adults who run the Boy Scouts picked polling places and then shielded themselves from criticism by hiding behind young boys (and perhaps conclude that it really wasn't about collecting things for the troops after all).

* Such as the parking lots of grocery or home improvement stores (lots of people, items for sale, non-political)
 
TSBench said:
If you have some reason to be an authority on this or any radio issue, let it be known.

I've always found that being consistently right is a pretty good indicator of whether or not someone could be considered an authority on a topic.
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Then maybe he can tell us about WEEI *definitely* going to FM.
 
You are right - this is a perfect topic for Howie and Carr and his audience - it's Cambridge, it's troops, it's Boy Scouts.

It's also political stupidity to the 'nth degree. Is political tone-deadness rampant across the Charles?

And, it's so obvious that polling places are the best venues to collect things for troops, given the record-setting high voter turnout, availability of appropriate items for the troops, and obvious non-political nature of the setting.

It's also pretty obvious that some folks got upset when their 'we don't like the war, but we support the troops' bluff was called and they folded. It wasn't like the scouts were collecting money to buy ammunition.

I mean, if there were other venues that offered better conditions*,

There are always venues which offer better prospects, and some worse.

a cynic might wonder why the adults who run the Boy Scouts picked polling places and then shielded themselves from criticism by hiding behind young boys (and perhaps conclude that it really wasn't about collecting things for the troops after all).

If you have some evidence that the leadership of the Cambridge scouts was using this as a ruse, I'd like to know what it is.

The smart move for Cambridge would have been to do nothing. If those venues were so unproductive, it would have killed two birds with one stone....scant toiletries, and no making themselves into cariactures of liberal jerks. The really smart move would have been to collect so much as to create a nationwide shortage of aftershave lotion, and then continue to have anti-war rallies. For activists who want to be taken seriously, and not just regarded as moonbats, I think the two would have been politically supportive rather than mutually exclusive. Donating doesn't necessarily mean you support everything connected with it. On occasion, I've given to both Greenpeace ( I find industrialized whaling to be appalling) and Amnesty Intl (who sometimes, when not beating up on our friends, used to beat up on our enemies) but I can assure you I find both organization to leave a lot to be desired politically.

* Such as the parking lots of grocery or home improvement stores (lots of people, items for sale, non-political)

Just why would collecting in a Lowes' parking lot be any less political than in front of polling places? If you think the act is politically partisan, it's politically partisan no matter where it takes place. It's people from the same population universe both collecting and donating. Every political petition I have ever been asked to sign has originated by my being buttonholed in the parking lot or doorway of a supermarket or other popular store, so I don't see why it would be any less political than if I was approached in front of a church, or across the street from a polling place.

Regards,
TSB
 
is this similar to ED?

Only in the way that it keeps critical thought processes from rising to the occasion.

and does the cure involve sitting in side-by-side bathtubs in the great outdoors?

Perhaps, depending on how much water you can put in one, and how long someone can hold your head under.

Regards,
TSB
 
WRKOLD said:
dumber than a box of hair said:
WRKOLD said:
This just in Howie, will go back to WRKO tomorrow, wow he actually gave up.
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...and your source on this is...??????
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Ha, how dare you doubt me, that was straight from entercom

http://news.****************/cgi-bin/$rol.exe/headline_id=n17295
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No one's doubting you, only your sources. Since, according to my sources, you posted this literally within seconds of when WRKO management informed the staff, you have to be an insider...AKA a snitch. Fess up.

On second thought, never mind. I'm not lowering myself to the level of another occasional poster here.
 
TSBench said:
I suspect he'll go after the target that they can all agree on - liberal moonbats..... lots of that today, I predict.

If I was conspiracy-minded, I'd be asking who, Howie or Entercom, paid someone in Cambridge to diss the Boy Scouts who were collecting Chapstick and toothpaste for the troops. Jesus, you can't make this stuff up.
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Well, at 3:22 (about 14 minutes into the show) he mentioned the Cambridge 'moonbats' who went after the Boy Scouts. And, he'd already mentioned Kennedy and Chappaquiddick. And his audience swoons......

Raccoon, be careful - too much of what you're addicted to can make you ill. Go easy baby.
 
spilot113 said:
TSBench said:
If you have some reason to be an authority on this or any radio issue, let it be known.

I've always found that being consistently right is a pretty good indicator of whether or not someone could be considered an authority on a topic.
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Then maybe he can tell us about WEEI *definitely* going to FM.
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Just curious, but is this a prediction someone made on the boards here, or a prediction you are making now?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
TSB
 
TSBench said:
spilot113 said:
TSBench said:
If you have some reason to be an authority on this or any radio issue, let it be known.

I've always found that being consistently right is a pretty good indicator of whether or not someone could be considered an authority on a topic.
Click to expand...

Then maybe he can tell us about WEEI *definitely* going to FM.
Click to expand...

Just curious, but is this a prediction someone made on the boards here, or a prediction you are making now?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
TSB
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The usual suspects here repeatedly predict WEEI's move to 93.7. Been doing it for years. Gonna happen any day now.

You'll pardon me if I don't hold my breath waiting for it.
 
I don't so much predict it as wish for it (it would come in great at work). It has happened in other
cities but who knows if it would ever happen here.
 
it was the repetition of what he did before. nothing new. I tuned right out.
 
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