[BC] broadcaster's sense of reality

[Barry Mishkind]

At 05:58 PM 4/5/2008, Ronald J. Dot'o Sr., wrote
>Most news anchors that I've known are good at reading the 
>teleprompter or news copy and don't have a clue what they're talking 
>about and read off contradictory stuff that common since tells you it's wrong.

         I think this goes to radio as well ...
         Steve Allen proved years ago that
         the words go into the eyes, out the mouth
         and then into the ears and the brain.
         (Bigger than a Breadbox ... I think the title was)

         I proved it in Phoenix some years ago,
         by handing a eight-month-old piece of
         news copy to a jock who then stunned
         me by immediately turning and reading it
         on the air .. TWICE ... announcing that
         Buzz Aldrin had just become the second
         man in history to set foot on the moon

         He later blamed me ... saying it was my
         fault for handing it to him.

         So far as I know, his credibility was such
         that no one called the station.
         (Interestingly - but not related so far as I
         know - I followed him in the Morning Drive
         slot shortly thereafter.)

         There is another story ... I believe the
         Statue of Limitations has run out ...
         about another one ... one you would
         not believe ... and another fellow who
         read it on the air at least twice that I
         know of ... over an hour apart.