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Re: Re:WRKO adds Colmes; moves VB's show
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:01:05 -0500 "Dan Billings"
<billings@suscom-maine.net> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Faneuf" <tklaundry@juno.com>
> To: <billo@shoreham.net>
> Cc: <billings@suscom-maine.net>; <raccoonradio@yahoo.com>;
> <kc1ih@mac.com>;
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Re:WRKO adds Colmes; moves VB's show
>
>
> > So far I've found that while those efforts generate press and are
> an
> > annoyance they fail in their stated mission of getting someone off
> the
> > air, or spinning news coverage to one side over the other
>
> I think you are generally correct, but I think the protests about
> the Dr.
> Laura TV show had an effect. I think the syndicator and individual
> TV shows
> were inclined to pull the plug sooner than they would have without
> the
> controversy.
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
I'm not all that familiar with the Dr Laura protests, the only thing
that I know about Dr Laura someone allegedly posted nude photos of her on
the web and that her PhD is in Phys Ed not psychcology, but they could be
urban legend like Al Gore inventing the internet ;-)
df