RE: Boston spring 2002 Arbitrends-- two questions

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com>]

At 8:35 AM -0400 7/30/02, Bill O'Neill wrote:
>  > And Bill O opined:
>>  ...He's a funny guy.
>>
>Chuck Igopines:


>  > the bit the other morning about a "panic-stricken"
>>  mother (self-proclaimed "minority") whose child was JUST
>>  abducted was hoot!  PMPLMAO! hahahaha! she called Phil
>>  as Phil himself, in a previous show, er, bit, <snipt>
>
>Er, well...  Hmm.  Abduction, huh?  He spoofed on abduction?
>Sheesh. <pause> <crickets>  Nope. Not funny.  Really dumb.
>Insensitive.  Radio idiocy.  Damaging audio.  He's sucking the
>bottom of the well for material.  AM carrier current quality.  Light
>on personal crises, no doubt.  Good thing his show's barter.

OK, so someone who heard the bit thinks it's funny, and someone who 
did not hear the bit thinks it can't possibly be funny.  It sounds to 
me, from Chuck's description, that the bit was really a spoof on the 
media's and the general public's reaction to abduction stories.

In this light, it was interesting to hear the piece on "On The Media" 
this week about how the actual number of stranger abductions in this 
country is only about 100 a year, but our beloved media would have us 
believe that there's one happening every few minutes.
-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH