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Friday, October 10, 2003
Well, I noticed today that my favorite news radio personality, Neal Boortz, has moved over to WNOX in Knoxville. Apparently, this rubs Metropulse's Barry Henderson the wrong way. Straight from Neal's website:
The Neal Boortz Show recently moved to News Talk 99 - WNOX radio in Knoxville, Tennessee. Although we've received good response from the WNOX listeners through phone calls and e-mail, there is at least one person in Knoxville who is, shall we say, less than pleased.
Barry Henderson writes in Knoxville's Metropulse. Here's just part of what he has to say about my efforts on WNOX.
Neal Boortz has been on Atlanta radio for something like 35 years. He's a right-winger with not so much an edge as a blunt instrument. Boortz calls himself a libertarian, thereby giving all legitimate libertarians a bad name. I'd mention that the late Lewis Grizzard, a friend of mine for years, was also a friend of Neal's, but one shouldn't speak so badly of the deceased. Personally, I've been listening to Boortz on and off—thankfully, mostly off— for more than 30 years. ... Neal Boortz adds nothing to the argument. His hopeless cynicism and jerk-off rhetoric deserves no attention at all from thoughtful people, and his radio show deserves no airtime in this market. Is anyone listening?
It's telling that Barry Henderson also states his distaste for Fox News Channel in his column. That puts me in some pretty good company and helps to ease the sting of his negative review. As for his question, "Is anyone listening?" --- in due time the Knoxville listeners will have their say. Perhaps on Monday I can post some e-mail responses to Henderson's critique.
Neal is one of the things I miss about Atlanta (where I lived for a short time this past year). Thank God for the Internet.Labels: Archives_2003
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