WRKO and The Red Sox: The Globe Raises An Interesting Issue

[Casablance]

In Mark Shanahan's Boston Globe article today he alludes to an interesting problem:
Will the Boston Red Sox want to have WRKO as their Flagship Boston radio affililate? It has become, under Entercom, a radio station that is know primarily for slurs and prejudicial shock talk.

Will the very proper Red Sox organization fear that format will reflect badly on the Red Sox? Stay tuned.

Is Greater Media really out of the picture?

 

[raccoonradio]

It depends how the Sox feel, and how the Red Sox Radio sponsors feel. I think some of the WEEI sponsors
were not too pleased after the D&C incident (some may have pulled their ads for awhile).

In St Louis, the Cardinals moved from longtime flagship KMOX to a smaller station, and recently a host on THAT station made an anti-Condi Rice comment that got him fired, IIRC.

---A St. Louis radio station wasted no time firing a talk show host for using a racial epithet to describe Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his morning show Wednesday. KTRS president and general manager Tim Dorsey came on the air to announce the firing shortly after talk show host Dave Lenihan used the word "coon," a racial slur, instead of "coup" in describing her attributes for the post of NFL commissioner.
Prior to the utterance, Lenihan was heaping praise on Rice, a big football fan, who has frequently said she aspires to run the league one day.
"She's been chancellor of Stanford. She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that. I didn't mean that. It was just a slip of the tongue. She's definitely got all the attributes to be commissioner. I'm really sorry about that."---

 

[DaleGriffin]

"She's been chancellor of Stanford. She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big ------. A big ------. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that. I didn't mean that. It was just a slip of the tongue. She's definitely got all the attributes to be commissioner. I'm really sorry about that."---

WHoa Whoa... he said "coon" instead of "coup" not a six letter word that "-------" would imply. The coon/coup slip is much more acceptable, minus the lame explanation than the six letter racial slur you are refering to.

 

[DaleGriffin]

ahha that makes sense now

 

[Casablance]

If it comes down to firing John DePetro or losing the Boston Red Sox there is no question which choice Entercom will make:
Don't let the door hit you on the way out John...."

 

[raccoonradio]

"Hello, WHJJ? Are you hiring...?"

(some of his old WHJJ stuff is still up on his site:
http://www.depetro.com/show.htm )

 

[Casablance]

Ed Shultz on The Jones Radio Network Talks About WRKO/Red Sox

Nationally syndicated talk show host - broadcast here in Boston on 1430AM discussed John DePetro being suspended for using the word "f-a-g-g-o-t-". Ed Shultz's word not this poster's.

Noted also that the Red Sox may be reconsidering its contract with them to be its flagship station.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Will the very proper Red Sox organization fear that format will reflect badly on the Red Sox? Stay tuned.

Is Greater Media really out of the picture?

Why shouldn't they stay? The "Metco gorilla" didn't dissuade them from staying with WEEI.

 

[Neggy]

The Boston Globe, a wholly owned subsidiary of the N.Y. Times, which has leaked all sorts of stuff that puts troops in harms way, and that great picture the other day of a sniper taking aim at a US Soldier... THAT Boston Globe is preaching morality to Entercom?

Oh it's not a conflict of interest for a newspaper to be part owner of that team is it.

Barnicle, Smith... more ethical Globe Hires... who was that plagarist at the Times?

The NY Times Boston Edition, also known as the Globe should shut its pie hole

 

[Casablance]

Hey, sunshine patriot ! Seems the only one putting American solidiers in harms way in the person who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. To quote him he is doing a s**t job. Don't think the Boston Globe or the NYT should change a jot or tittle.

Beyond that what does that have to do with John DePetro calling someone a F*G and getting suspended by Entercom? The Globe did not invent the story - it only reported it as did The Herald and the wire services.

If The Boston Red Sox want to be associated with an organization that calls African Americans "monkeys" and others "f-a-g-s" they may make that decision at their own economic peril and potential boycott.

Do you think Dennis and Callahan would appreciate it if someone called them some Irish epithet such as "H-a-r-p-i-e" and the like or DePetro [ who is half Irish and have Italian ] a "W-a-p". This poster would be first to come to their defense if some idiot resorted to that stupidity. Perhaps, that is the kind of prejudice you were taught in your family; it was not in mine and I am of the same ethnic background as of one of those talkers. It is just not acceptable under any circumstances on or off the air.

 

[Varulven]

Hi Casablance,

The Italian and the Irish "epithets" you mentioned don't have the biting nastiness of the N word and the F word.
Having Italian blood I can tell you that the W word just isn't as rough as the F word. Many of my Irish friends feel the same way about the H word - though maybe in other regions it has more of an impact -

I agree with you: re-New York Times. The newspaper never put anyone in harm's way. If anything the
Times should've come clean on the spying thing before the last election. They only put soldiers in harm's way by not reporting in a timely fashion and allowing Ohio to be stolen - because Bush got 8 years he did not deserve and this country is in a big mess. The Bill Clinton era will be known as "the good old days" - and you are also right in that none of this has anything to do with Depetro's move to try to get ratings by saying something stupid. Fire him.

 

[johnwas5]

Re: WRKO and The Red Sox: The Globe Raises A Silly Issue

it has to do with the changing implication of words, doesn't it? Slurs of certain protected groups are viewed with more hostility than others. You can probably slur someone who is polish or russian and no one would think twice. Don't go after blacks, gays, or jews. The thing I don't get is why Depetro bothered stepping over that line for such a dumb comment. It wasn't clever, cute, insightful, entertaining - just stupid.

Speaking of which - the Sox were probably aware that WRKO is a conservative talk station when they signed on. There's been no format change, not even a change of personnel.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

The Boston Globe, a wholly owned subsidiary of the N.Y. Times, which has leaked all sorts of stuff that puts troops in harms way, and that great picture the other day of a sniper taking aim at a US Soldier... THAT Boston Globe is preaching morality to Entercom?...The NY Times Boston Edition, also known as the Globe should shut its pie hole

Specific examples, please. We know that al-Qaeda and the Iraqi insurgents have nothing better to do than read The New York Times to get their information on where our troops are, so please tell us where and when the Times put our troops in harm's way.

We're waiting.

 

[Casablance]

"The thing I don't get is why Depetro bothered stepping over that line for such a dumb comment. It wasn't clever, cute, insightful, entertaining - just stupid."

Doesn't that quote really define who John DePetro is ?