What DePetro said was OK before it wasn’t OK
Fired WRKO talker John DePetro links to a 2004 Boston Globe article that contains the following two paragraphs:
Hey,” says [WEEI and WAAF General Manager] Julie Kahn. “I’m OK with nipples.” Well, we could describe her the way, say, Bubba would have, because we’re part of a newspaper, and the FCC has no power over us. Nonetheless, that would be ungallant in the extreme, even though she says she wouldn’t mind it, not even on the radio stations she manages. “They could say, like, ‘Julie Kahn is an idiot. She’s a doofus-head,’ ” Kahn explains. “But ‘All women GMs suck.’ They can’t do that anymore.” So that means you can’t say all women are fat b– , but can you call Hillary Clinton a fat b– ?
“It’s in poor taste,” says Kahn, “but, technically, it’s inside the line. She is a public figure.”
But that was then and this is now and I have no idea what directives and guidelines Entercom and its stations have gievn their hosts since then.
Mr. DePetro has five pictures of himself on his website’s front page right now in case you wonder what he looks like.
