Archive for the ‘Radio’ Category
Station fires host after he, um, praises Condoleezza Rice
Excerpt from an AP story: A St. Louis radio station quickly fired a talk show host for uttering a racial epithet as he talked about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his morning show Wednesday. Dave Lenihan apologized on the air immediately after making what he said was a slip of the tongue. KTRS president [...]
Media hoaxed by fake Ryan Seacrest interview
On Thursday the Trentonian newspaper reported about a New Jersey radio DJ who had a heated exchange with Ryan Seacrest about whether or not he was gay. From the story: “Ryan,” Carton said, “Are you gay?” Silence. “Ryan, are you a homosexual?” With that, Seacrest was headed for the door. “I can’t stay here, man,” [...]
The media and the miners
By now it’s common knowledge that a terrible, tragic mistake was made in the reporting of 13 miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine. For a few hours the world believed that all but one of the men had made it out alive. Because of production deadlines, many papers reported this on their front [...]
BBC hoaxed
BBC TV and Radio fell victim to a hoaxer last week. A man who said his name was Jude Finisterra and claimed to be a spokesman for Dow Chemical went on the air at the Beeb and said Dow was taking full responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal disaster, and had set up a $12 billion [...]
