The clout of Jerry Williams

[Donna Halper]

At 01:54 AM 3/13/2008, in response to Ira Apple,  Don A wrote:

>>Jerry seemed to have greatly embarrassed WBZ management when he debated Avi
>>Nelson.  I did not hear those debates but I was told that Avi made Jerry
>>look extremely bad; that Avi ate his lunch, etc.
>
>Why were they debating?

No special reason.  It was the early 70s, and TV stations were just 
discovering the idea of taking a rightie and a leftie and putting 
them on the air to debate the issues. Avi Nelson was always a 
rightie, and back then, Jerry was much more of a leftie.