WBZ Florida

[Laurence Glavin]

>DATE: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:53:24
>From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
>To: <boston-radio->interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>,"Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>


>With that as backdrop, WBZ management's conscious decision to mislead the
>audience about LaPierre's whereabouts seems to display very bad judgment. In
>fact, where Gary broadcasts from WOULD be irrelevant IF Peter Casey et al
>had not tried to conceal the location and if Casey were not now trying to
>make the whole subject just go away. Casey is throwing away the baby with
>the bath water. In the statements I've heard, he has shown no appreciation
>for the issue of trust between the listeners and their primary news source.
>Anyone who likens this situation to that of a talk-show host pretending to
>be somewhere he isn't is similarly missing the point. Talk-show hosts are
>entertainers, not news people.
>>
>--
>Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
>eFax 707-215-6367
>
The WBZ executive on channel 2/44 I believe was Ted Jordan,
and at one point he began a sentence like this:
"Our morning news show, I mean newscast"...etc.
This was not an intentional faux pas, like Bob Bittner
saying "National Association of Bankers, I mean  Broadcasters";
It struck me as the proverbial Freudian slip in which 
he blurted out what he really meant, then had to
correct himself in mid-sentence.  

Laurence Glavin


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