Re: Re: Must-see TV

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 2:59 PM
> John Osterling is a former Rock DJ who co-hosts
> a morning talk show on Boston's WRKO (during day-pattern
> hours you may be able to get it up there.)
> Earlier this week, he expressed his exasperation with
> Palestinian extremists by saying they should be
> eliminated (or so the story goes).  'RKO PD Mike Elder
> suspended him for two weeks based on hearsay about what
> Osterlind actually said.  Since Ozone (as he calls himself)
> has limited communication skills, he tends to fly off the handle
> and leave himself open to this kind of criticism.

That's weird, for two reasons:

1.  Aren't talk show host paid to say outrageous things?

2.  If he limited his comment to the Palestinians that are blowing things up
(which would be the meaning that I would take from extremists) and not all
Palestinians, the comment is not that extreme.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine