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Talk Radio - Local and National A Topic on WGBH "Beat The Press" Hypocrites ?

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Talk Radio - Local and National A Topic on WGBH "Beat The Press" Hypocrites ?

WGBH's "Beat The Press" takes on Talk Radio but shows its hypocrisy.

Emily Rooney, Andy's daughter, took on Talk Radio in the first segment of the Friday "Beat The Press". Many of the things they said are true but when Emily Rooney began to praise the late Jerry Williams and how much his brand of talk radio is missed which is true she was more than a little hypocritical.

When Jerry Williams was alive nothing he said regarding the issues of the day would she ever deign to discuss on her program.

In fact, when Jerry Williams died in April of 2003 Emily Rooney said nothing.

More to the point, when Emily Rooney did a round up of the notables who had died in 2003 she did not mention Jerry Williams. It was this poster who both wrote and called the powers that be at WGBH to tell them of their gross oversight. Several weeks later in the winter of 2004 Rooney did mention quickly that they did omit Jerry Williams from the list of the notables who had passed in 2003. Hypocrite then. Hypocrite now !
 
Could have been a personal thing, who knows. (Jerry's successor called her Thanks Dad as in "if not for Andy would she have gotten hired?") Never really heard her all that much, so I won't judge her. Rooney was on with Jay Severin for awhile on WTKK wasn't she, then wound up at WGBH. Williams was a pioneer in talk radio and a major figure in this town, as the Tolz and Ellman book highlighted. In his later years he pictured himself as a populist and a muckracker, going after "hacks and cronies", working with Ralph Nader on the "Congressional pay grab", and taking a bit of a libertarian ("classical liberal") take on big-government-spending and overreach (including high-speed chases, mandatory seatbelt laws, roadblocks, etc)

In the pre-email days he urged listeners to call or write legislators (stop the New Braintree prison!) and held rallies about certain issues (not that I'm a fan of his but Kuhner did similar things--at least in the holding rallies sense).
 
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