This Would've Taken Rare Guts
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- July
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I was off last week, and for the sake of sanity I disconnected from e-mail and voice mail, only to return today and find my various mail boxes filled with messages—mostly crap.
However, one missive that caught my eye came from the wily impresario of the radio airwaves, my old pal, William O’Shaughnessy of Whitney Media in New Rochelle. On June 23, the O-man wrote a letter to his attorney, Erwin Krasnow, about the recent death of the 71-year-old comedian George Carlin. One of Carlin’s famous bits had to do with the seven words you can’t say on radio.
O’Shaughnessy wrote:
“Counselor:
“We were going to lower the flag to half mast in George Carlin’s honor…but then I got a better idea.
“I am instead going to—in his honor—read the “SEVEN DIRTY WORDS” on the air!
“Could you please advise which time slot you think would be the most appropriate to honor this great man.
“And, could you please e-mail me the actual seven words? (I can think of a few.)
“Please get back to me ASAP.”
What a jokester. He even added an unprintable post script to the letter…and needless to say, the attorney took the whole thing seriously. The FCC can breathe easy. By the way, Bill, you don’t lower the flat at half mast. It’s half staff.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
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