Responsible radio stations should drop Finebaum. Now.
by Triumphant Tiger on Jan 17, 2012 12:25 AM CST
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Look ... I wore many hats during my time at Auburn ... Journalism major, WEGL DJ, Plainsman news / sports reporter, Circle poet ... and the grand finale, Opelika-Auburn News intern.
I value the First Amendment and use it everyday, whether I'm entertaining millions worldwide on Twitter / Facebook; creating videos for YouTube; playing my keyboard for parties of 25; or singing / dancing / acting for our local community theatre; or engaging serious discourse with one or more Congressmen.
Mr. Finebaum has that same right.
However, there comes a time when every local radio operator must decide: Am I going to "serve" the community ... or am I going to be an accomplice to trash, filth, exploitation, lies, slander, hatred (I could go on and on, but you get the picture.)
It's bad enough that Mr. Finebaum still allows Danny Sheridan on the show after fabricating that stupid "Bagman" story. What's even worse is that he promotes the liar every day during commercial breaks!
Monday's program would have been the last straw if I were the station owner. I got off work at 5 and tuned in, hoping to hear of a new offensive coordinator for the Auburn Tigers, or at least some thumbs up from the football recruits who visited us over the weekend. No such thing happened, but I would have liked to have heard some theories and / or counter-theories about it ...
Instead, he was replaying open threats from one fan to another (from the previous hour) and wallowing in that profane, disgusting Krystal story!
Who's with me on this?
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He's not a journalist.
He’s a Jerry Springer wanna-be.
You are the problem, not Finebaum
Because you tuned in. I despise Finebaum and everything he represents…..so I do not even “check in”. Why would you? You are giving tacit approval to him and his methods by even checking to see what they are talking about because, by doing so, you are admitting that the shows has value to you as a listener. In your case you were looking for information, but for others its the tawdry rumors, for others its to laugh at all the rednecks insulting each other.
Forget the radio stations….they are there to make money…..as long as Finebaum abides by FCC regulations, the stations don’t care if they do fart jokes for 3 hours if it brings ratings. IF YOU WANT FINEBAUM TO GO AWAY, QUIT SUPPORTING HIM WITH YOUR EARS!! DON"T TUNE IN..EVER!! You can get information and entertainment elsewhere… STOP LISTENING TO THE IDIOT, BECAUSE HE IS GETTING RICHER OFF OF YOU!!
I love the smell of Auburn in the autumn.....it smells like....victory.
by Col.Angus on Jan 17, 2012 7:25 AM CST reply actions 8 recs
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I am with you Col.Angus......
He is on my favorite XM station but I tune to another station between 3 and 7. I do not even accidently hear a word he has to say.
Veni vidi vici 22-19
by Challenger10 on Jan 17, 2012 8:48 AM CST up reply actions
I dunno, Colonel
Arbitron ratings are based on what polled individuals claim to listen to, I think. You can listen to Finebaum and then lie about it to hurt his ratings.
I’m with you though. I just don’t listen. The inmates run the asylum over there.
2011 Chicken Bowl Champs!
by War Eagle Atlanta on Jan 17, 2012 9:52 AM CST up reply actions
Thats true about the ratings
But if nobody patronizes their sponsors….or the sponsors can determine that people aren’t listening, it has the same effect. Ratings determine the ad rates and if the sponsors say “thats bull….we aren’t getting anywhere near the return for the ratings you claim to be getting”
Sooner or later it will catch up to him. Hopefully people will realize he is laughing at them.
Watching that ESPN film made me want to puke…..acting like he was above it all, and that all the morons that call in that show are TRUE representatives of Auburn and Alabama. He is truly a LEECH of a human being, lower than beetle dung.
I love the smell of Auburn in the autumn.....it smells like....victory.
I'm with Col on this one....
Note time and date of said agreement…it might happen as often as a lunar eclipse….
"We see the door; we're here to knock it down"-Cam Newton
by Tiger on the mountain on Jan 17, 2012 11:11 AM CST up reply actions
And I'll hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" as well, on this one...
even if it is with a rotten, stinking ’Neer.
(but you know I mean that in the nicest way possible)
"The ball will be spotted at the six-inch-yardline."
Oh I know, wink. wink.
"We see the door; we're here to knock it down"-Cam Newton
by Tiger on the mountain on Jan 17, 2012 2:38 PM CST up reply actions
Also,
how did you know that the Col’s fav song is ‘Kumbaya’?? You nailed it with that one!
I can just see it now, the waft of fresh patchouli in the air, a drum circle surrounding a radio with a Finebaum sticker on it being burned in effigy, and the Col leading the group in a lyrical revelation…..Now that’s beautiful moment, people.
"We see the door; we're here to knock it down"-Cam Newton
by Tiger on the mountain on Jan 17, 2012 3:01 PM CST up reply actions
Between the Col.'s conservative stance
and your left-wing leanings, thoughts of matter and anti-matter are what come to mind instead. And splitting atoms instead of hairs.
"The ball will be spotted at the six-inch-yardline."
I was expecting an announcement or two
Specifically, new OC or commitments.
AM 560 “The Ball”, where he airs in our town, is the only sports talk station possible. We had espn radio for a while on 100.5 FM, and it was good … but when they started criticizing Nick Saban for leaving the Dolphins, our local Bammerbots went ballistic and demanded a format change.
How do you make it green like that, by the way?
by Triumphant Tiger on Jan 17, 2012 6:48 PM CST up reply actions
Bottom of the post, to the far right
of the name and timestamp of the post. Click on “actions” then “rec”.
It varies from site to site, but on TET, three recs = green. You can’t rec your own comments (I shan’t get into specifics, but it’s like the Hadron busting open…too many awful implications to consider).
"The ball will be spotted at the six-inch-yardline."
Would point out...
….that if the Hadron Collider “busted open,” you’d sever all those big ole magnetic coils surrounding the particle pathway, breaking the circuit. In other words, it would be like slicing an electrical cord. The light would go out.
......Drowning in cool elixir.
I'm not a scientist
….I was just tapping into the paranoid fears raised by theories like this. Sorry if I muddled the specifics.
"The ball will be spotted at the six-inch-yardline."
does it bother you ar all that....
one of the guys working on this projects first examples of paradox avoidance is “a human can’t go back in time and murder his parents before they are born.”
Really? Murder is the first thing that comes to mind? I’m thinking of the reprecussions of stepping on a daisy in the Triassic era.
Get that dude off the super collider project!
I love the smell of Auburn in the autumn.....it smells like....victory.
Dude, smurfs aren’t real. Ok?
"We see the door; we're here to knock it down"-Cam Newton
by Tiger on the mountain on Jan 19, 2012 9:40 AM CST up reply actions
I'd be more concerned
If he’d have gone the “Back the Future” route and said you can’t go back in time and make it with your own mom.
That little bit (about the Hadron) always stood out to me as one of the most “WTF?” collisions of science, technophobia, paranoia, and superstition. With that said, they’re the experts…
"The ball will be spotted at the six-inch-yardline."
Ah, I missed your implication.
…..I barely know my quarks, neutrinos and gluons. The whole particle physics array of theories has become much more complicated since I took Physics 320 at Auburn some 30 years ago!
......Drowning in cool elixir.
Ditto Col., and Rec
I need a cold shower and a copy of the Auburn Creed
This is...
exactly what Finebaum wants us to do. He wants to create a lot of buzz in the media, so people have to tune in. We are fighting a war that is going to get no results, so I think we should just forget about it. Just keep believing in what you know, and don’t let Finebaum get to you. WDE!!
by WarEagleCole on Jan 17, 2012 12:38 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
As a sports junkie...
….sometimes I do dial in. Someone at work told me before I left today that Auburn had a commitment from a 5-star linebacker today. So I dialed it in.
…..The whole ride home was consumed by what some bama fan saw from her hotel room across from the Krystal on Bourbon Street. Evidently, some LSU guy was drunk, yelling cuss-words at Bama fans, then passed out in the Krystal. Then some Bama drunk whipped it out and teabagged him. This is news? It’s Bourbon Street, fa cryin’ out loud! Stuff like this goes on every night…
…..Needless to say, I received no sports news at all on my ride home.
......Drowning in cool elixir.
Let's face it
A face-full of scrotum is probably the best metaphor for listening to that godawful show.
"The ball will be spotted at the six-inch-yardline."
by AU Tiger on Jan 17, 2012 5:26 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
sounds about right.
I would have used that airtime to promote Auburn at LSU in hoops action
by Triumphant Tiger on Jan 17, 2012 6:50 PM CST up reply actions
I was there the day WEGL signed on....
A glorius 17.5 watts of monophonic sound. In fact, I may have been the first to ever be suspened from on air for making up my own station ID about broadcasting with “fewer watts than the common household lightbulb.”
Jb
'Fess up, Old Mac...
…was it still East Alabama Male College when you attended?
(sorry…had to make the joke)
"The ball will be spotted at the six-inch-yardline."
1971?
you probably had “No Fun” by the Stooges! I played it often in my era, from summer 1988 to summer 1991
by Triumphant Tiger on Jan 18, 2012 10:11 PM CST up reply actions
Colonel is right. If you don't like it don't listen to it.
"Jay Jacobs can't go to the bathroom without Bobby Lowder's permission" - Paul Finebaum
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