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On April 20th Jacques Steinberg, a reporter for The New York Times, wrote an article titled “Talk Radio Tries for Humor and a Political Advantage.” Steinberg’s article was merely another salvo in the broad based mainstream media assault on talk radio. Steinberg took out after Opie and Anthony (Oh yeah … that’s talk radio), Imus, Limbaugh, Savage and, at the very end, me.
He did spell my name right. Good for Jacques.
For the portion aimed at me Steinberg chose to write of my comments on the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Why not? Everybody else has! Steinberg addressed some of my specific comments and then wrote: “A few moments later, as a transition to a commercial break, Mr. Boortz paused to play a snippet of a pop song from the 1980’s. His choice? “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” by Pat Benatar.”
Wrong. Not true. Didn’t happen. And the accusation angered me … let me tell you why.
From the summer of 1979 until the spring of 1981 Atlanta suffered a series of murders of black children generally known as the Atlanta Child Murders. During this period 29 black children and a few adults were killed. It seemed as if every day we would learn of another body found behind an office building, in a vacant field or by a road.
During that time I was privileged to know a morning radio pair known as Ross and Wilson. Brian Wilson is now a program director at a talk radio station and Ross Brittain is probably managing his multi-million dollar portfolio from a yacht in the Caribbean. One day, so the legend goes, Ross and Wilson were interrupted by a news bulletin that the body of yet another child had been found. When the news report ended they came back on the air and played “Another One Bites the Dust.” That rumor, which persists to this day, is untrue. And just how do I know? Because at the time I was a practicing attorney in Atlanta and Ross Wilson was a client. I had some involvement in his contract negotiations with the radio station. These two will be forever dogged by the false charge that they followed the report of the discovery of a murdered black child with that song, though it never happened.
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