Word: wcau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after he lost the Democratic primary, has been out of office for nearly a decade, he's still throwing his hefty weight around in the City of Brotherly Love. After he lost last year's mayoral race to incumbent W. Wilson Goode, Rizzo became a talk show host on WCAU-AM, one of Philadelphia's highest profile radio talk stations...
...WCAU, usually a quality station, has stooped to the lowest levels by giving Rizzo access to the airwaves. While talk radio is quickly becoming a legitimate and potent political force, Rizzo's tough talk and thinly disguised bigotry adds nearly nothing to the city's political dialogue. The little it does add convincingly demonstrates why Rizzo lost the election to Goode, who was widely perceived as ineffective and incompetent...
...course, even though Rizzo is a demagogic liberal basher, he deserves his freedom of speech. And WCAU, as a business, can do whatever it wants to bring the station what recently hired station manager Gregory Tantum termed a needed "higher profile...
...WCAU should recognize its professional repsonsibility to give the public programs of quality and should make Rizzo find another way to reach what he calls the "rowhouse people, the little people." Rizzo's show amounts to little more than a bully pulpit from which this incessant politician can launch another bid for the mayor's office and embarrass Philadelphia more...
...WCAU, enough already...