Since the initial post in the thread links the Hearld article, I'll assume no one listened to the show. Anyone that has listened in the past knows how heavily O&A despise the media, especially the print media, for the unapologetic lambasting they received for thier firable exploits. They have stated numerous times that they have no issue with the facts printed, they did the crime and paid for it. They feverishly abhor the media printing anything and everything regardless of whether it's true or not and rarely ever being held responsible or to any standards regarding unchecked items being printed as the gospel truth. That being said, if I am correct, that is part of the "fun" behind "Make-it-up Tuesday".
From, basically, 6-6:59am, callers brought ideas and they picked the Tom Brady story which was adjusted and molded by fans of the show. At 7am, they made their announcement. Later in the show, Opie read printed articles and sarcastically emphasized the article said "according to sources" and "reports". Even announcing that it was reported on ESPN.com. So the media ran with bloggers and speculation and reported a story that was baseless 110%. I laughed for hours! If two shock jocks report something is on ESPN and you never check ESPN, do you then run it as a story? If bloggers are the main source of the media's stories and they can't bother to do any fact checking...Journalism 101.
Now what makes me throw up in my mouth is that the two wanna-be-reporters who write a glorified gossip column have the audacity to write oh-so-clever "Opie & Dopey" while they sit by their phones awaiting a call on who saw who with who at Sonsie. Even their story uses a source who is a "person who knows". When Fee or Raposa are breaking news on the next Enron instead of where Kate Hudson was spotted shopping, I may hold some regard and respect for anything they attempt to print. With the crap they write, they couldn't bash O&A fast enough. Considering that O&A are probably the ONLY people they can trash "professionally" at the moment...they jumped on it like hyenas on a dead carcass.
O&A got attention, their name in print, a great 5-hour laugh by their fans and made some media goons look like media goofs. Mission accomplished all around if you ask me.
