Oops -- radio gag gone bad!
 

On 23 Aug 2003 20:08:28 GMT, wrote:

KRQ management has publicly denied any affiliation with Fontes and his
actions during the presidential visit, saying that he and two friends
went to D-M on their own that day.

This is wonderful news! Management is no longer responsible for what
its employees do. That'll make running stations much easier.

How can management have no responsibility when employees admit they
were part of the stunt? Let's see them get that excuse past the FCC
with a straight face. If a station producer gave the stuntman a
military uniform, that, alone, makes the station an accomplice.

I smell a big fine in the works. Unauthorized access to a miltary base
when the President is there. I wonder how nature can possibly make
someone that stupid.

Rich

"gaffo" wrote in message
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Rich Wood wrote:

I smell a big fine in the works. Unauthorized access to a miltary base
when the President is there. I wonder how nature can possibly make
someone that stupid.

Rich



anything for ratings and a buck.

you seem surprised.


Those of you in the radio game ought to have an award and give it out at the
NAB party in Nevada -- call it the Aimee Semple McPherson award. Make it a
nice glass or crystal trophy.

Perhaps, the head of a clown with one of those "crazee arrows" thorugh it.

Aimee Semple McPherson was probably the first radio stuntress in history.
Ms. McPherson was also one of the first radio preacher/hucksters. She
founded the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles and ran it with her mother (or
former mother-in-law?) -- a woman named Kennedy. She also had a radio
station - KFSG.

In 1926, Aimee disappeared, and was supposedly swept under the waves while
swimming at the beach. Rescue workers could find nothing. Unfortunately,
a man died during the search and rescue. Several days later, after an
intense radio campaign over KFSG praying for Aimee's return, she turned
up - staggered out of the desert -- and claimed she had been beaten,
drugged, and raped, and had walked six hours through the desert sun to be
rescued. This incident of weirdness was topped by the fact that her
clothing and condition did not reflect six hours of walking through the
desert.

There were also indications that she had been seen in the company of one of
the station's engineers in a trip up the California coast while she was
"kidnapped". However, both he and McPherson denied it, and she was
acquitted of perjury.

She returned to the Angelus Temple, but did not enjoy her pre-stunt
publicity.

McPherson died of an overdose of barbituates in 1944.