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June 1997 Talk Shows
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30 June 1997

Of course EVERYBODY'S talking about the Holyfield-Tyson fight. There's really only one point of view even though the talk show hosts say, "Do you think Tyson should be banned from boxing?" He should simply be ignored from boxing: his actions do not merit the serious consideration of whether he should be banned or not: he's not a member of the club in the first place. The whole issue now boils down to sportsmanship, class, self-control. Again, we have someone who is out of his league. Newspapers in all languages are carrying this news. The adjectives that are being applied to the fight and Tyson's actions are:

• despicable
• embarrassing
• appalling
• disgusting
• gross
• disgraceful
• pathetic
• atrocious

people are saying they're
• appalled
• disgusted
• incredulous
• the President said he was horrified

Tyson's actions are attributed to his fear of
• humiliation at the hands of a superior fighter.

Because you already know the story, you can guess at what these words mean and how strong they are.

On the Grammar page, you can find a reminder about the -ing and -ed adjectives and their places in sentences.25 June 1997

KTZN, Stephanie Miller: "What should happen to the 'Prom Mom?'" "She went into the bathroom, had a baby, strangled it, stuffed it in the trash, went out and requested a song, had a salad, danced, and went home. She pleaded of course, 'Not guilty.' She tore the cover off the sanitary napkin dispenser and used that to cut the baby's umbilical cord. She was in the stall doing this and her girlfriend came in and she said, in the midst of all this, 'I'll be done pretty soon. Go tell the boys I'll be right out.' It's just complete callousness."

KABC, Michael Jackson: "What do they want? What do they know? What do you know?" Extraterrestrial space craft; "extraterrestrials have visited the earth."

KTZN, Katie Boland(?): At the Talk Radio Convention last weekend, KTZN was voted the best Talk Radio Station and Michael Jackson of KABC was voted the best Talk Radio Host

"Bachelor Parties are barbaric and should be banned."

KFI's Bill Handel and KTZN's Tracey Miller and Robin Abcarian: "The NAACP is considering abandoning the idea of integrated schools, and isn't that what Brown vs. the Board of Education was all about? Maybe we should rethink integration. Isn't bussing children out of the inner cities demeaning to the schools there? Why not support beefing up the schools in the black neighborhoods?"

KTZN, Tracey Miller and Robin Abcarian: College Tuition has doubled in California in ten years. You have to put away $250 a month for each of your children from birth to eighteen years old to be able to send them to college

KFI, Bill Handel: "Maybe I've become so inured to violence that I don't feel outrage that she murdered her baby, but that she is getting out on $50,000 bail for first degree murder; 'She seems to be a real stable girl--all she did was go in a bathroom and murder her child!'" A caller called in and said, "Horrible stuff is happening to humanity. It must be some sort of Armageddon!" The 50th anniversary of "whatever happened at Roswell" is here and people think that the Air Force is covering up extraterrestrial beings' landing here; spaceship MIR was involved in a collision in outer space last night; Malcolm X's grandson burned his grandmother, Malcom X's widow, to death....

24 June 1997

KFI, Tammy Bruce: "Betty Shabazz' family 'doesn't see any reason to charge her grandson, Malcolm, with murder.' How about murder? Isn't that a good enough reason?"

KABC's Dennis Prager blames "the pro-choice forces" for the New Jersey Prom Mom's killing her baby--he has ridden a slippery slope from abortion, to abortion as birth control, to murder as birth control.

KFI, Bill Handel: The Baptist Boycott of Disney

KFI's Bill Handel and KTZN's Tracey Miller and Robin Abcarian: The tobacco industry's agreement on advertising to reduce teen smoking. They've agreed to pay a fine if teen smoking doesn't go down; they'll raise the price of cigarettes $1.00 a pack to pay the fine.

23 June 1997

KABC's Larry Elder: The tobacco industry's agreement on advertising to reduce teen smoking. "Why don't we go after alcohol?"

KFI's Bill Handel and KTZN's Tracey Miller and Robin Abcarian: Megan's Law and the new CD that is to come out with names, photos, and zip codes of registered sex offenders> "Will this cause vigilante-ism?" "Is this constitutional?" I try not to editorialize on this page, but I have to here. One point that was brought up on the radio is that "sex offenders" are not necessarily "child molesters." They may be men who have been literally "caught with their pants down" urinating in public, or who have solicited sex with a prostitute who turns out to be an undercover policewoman, or who have engaged in consentual (sp??) sex with a minor, a girl under 16. They may also be gay men who have been caught looking for partners in the restrooms of public parks. While Megan's Law is meant to provide a measure of safety for children, the information is dangerous in the wrong hands because all types of offenses, including urinating in public, are included in the general category of sex offenses. However, most people interpret "registered sex offender" to mean a person who kidnaps and rapes children, so these men have been harassed by parents putting signs up on their houses. One man on the radio even said that he would go to the house of any man he found on the list and shoot him. A sensible reaction came from a woman applying this knowledge in the spirit in which it is meant: She said that if she found one of these people were living near her, she would tell her child, "If that man ever talks to you or says he wants to show you a puppy or anything, you run straight home as fast as you can and tell me." That is a sensible approach to Megan's Law.

KTZN, Tracey Miller and Robin Abcarian: "Can a woman age gracefully and What the Hell is happening to Farrah Fawcett?"

20 June 1997

KTZN, Joe Crummey & Merrill Markoe: Celebrities who are doing things way out of their league: Jack Kevorkian and his Jazz CD, William Shatner and his CD, Farrah Fawcett and her "body performance art."

KABC, Michael Jackson: "What do you like or dislike about Talk Radio?" He remembers the pioneer of what has become today's talk radio, Joe Pyne

19 June 1997

KFI, Bill Handel: Southern Baptists boycotting all Disney products and Disney companies because they recognize same-sex partners for insurance benefits and they have a "Gay Night" at Disneyland. Handel says, "Since the gas company also provides benefits for same-sex partners, shouldn't they boycott the gas company too?" and a caller who is a security guard at another theme park said that when they have Gay Night, the park is clean and there are few arrests, but when there is a Christian convention, the security people are kept very busy with shoplifting, drunkenness, and fistfights.

KTZN, Tracey Miller and Robin Abcarian: Robin says, "Frankly my dear, my definition of Hell is a Southern Baptist convention in Dallas!"

18 June 1997

KTZN, Joe Crummey and Merril Markoe: "If you were writing your memoirs, what would you start with?"

17 June 1997

KABC, Yolanda Gaskin: "Should Frank Gifford go on T.V. and publicly apologize to Kathie Lee, as she demanded? Should she demand this? Would you respect him more or less for apologizing on TV?"

Dennis Prager: "Does a level of suffering in your life excuse you for doing evil?"

KTZN, Joe Crummey and Merrill Markoe:What does your car say about you? "Weird, weird Saturn people are like a cult

12 June 1997

KTZN, Joe Crummey and Merrill Markoes: "On the third aniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, a day to honor the American Psychotic Celebrity, Lunatic, Celebrity: 'Harvest of Shame: Psychotic Celebrities'" (Tupac Shakur, Farrah Fawcett, Harry Morgan, Axel Rose, Hugh Grant and Divine Brown, Danny Bonaducci, Eddie Murphy)and "Revenge is Sweet," listeners' stories of Jealous Revenge.

10 June 1997

KABC, Dennis Prager:

Lack of Decorum in Graduation Ceremonies

5 June 1997

KTZN, Tracey Miller and Robin Abcarian: Radio Hoaxing as an act of cowardice. (Another radio station has fake callers calling in)

KABC, Talking about a bill to ban Federal government offices' having computer games installed on the computers to save money on wasted time, and a bill to have real people answering government phones instead of automated services.

KTZN, Joe Crummey and Merrill Markoes: The Paula Jones scandals: How likely is it that someone with enough diplomacy to become a state Governor and then President of the United States would just "drop his pants" and ask a strange and unattractive woman for oral sex?

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