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RE: WZLX - "I Don't Like Mondays"



Bob writes:
>During CNN's coverage yesterday, someone got on the
>air posing as a student or someone near the scene,
>and they started babbling about how "Howard Stern
>did it. His TV show ratings are going down, and..."
>The CNN anchor immediately cut the caller off.
>Sick.

Doesn't this say a lot about those screening these
calls? Sometimes in a rush to have a "scoop" TV
outlets put the first person that calls in on the
air. This happened with the O.J. Simpson thing a
few years ago, too, on ABC.

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