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You Can’t Say That on the Radio

May 28, 2008 | by Keith | Categories Sports Radio |

You gotta love sports radio hosts who think they can use their bully pulpit to spew whatever they want.   Well, they can’t.

Here is a story out of Pittsburgh where 1250 ESPN Radio host Mark Madden was fired this week for comments he made during last Wednesday’s show.  Apparently Madden opened his show with a reaction to the news that Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor;

“I’m very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated.”

Classy. 

When will these sports radio shock jocks learn that we tune in to listen to you talk about the game?  We don’t want to hear your personal jabs on politics, entertainment, or anything else.  There are other outlets for that. 

Madden is just another example of a host who thinks he is bigger than the sports he talks about.  He learned the hard way that he is not. 


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