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4-23-98 On KABC radio AM 790, Dennis Prager opened his show discussing the following news story:
Boy Scout Troop Leaders Under Fire
.c The Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) - Boy Scout troop leaders are being roasted for arranging to let hatchet-wielding scouts catch, kill and dress chickens for a camp dinner.
Leaders of Lake Highlands Troop 890 said they wanted to show scouts how their meals got to the table.
``Chicken to them is a chicken nugget,'' said Scoutmaster James Shepherd. ``So the feeling was that, educationally, if they could see this is where their chicken comes from, it would be good for them.''
So the troop, on a camping trip Saturday, was turned loose on a flock of chickens from a processing plant. The scouts were shown how to kill, pluck, dress and prepare chickens for eating.
Ten to 15 of the 80 scouts declined to participate, and two parents later complained.
``It was obvious they were upset,'' Shepherd said. ``In retrospect, we obviously shouldn't have done it.''
Luke:
Prager thought the Scouts did a good thing in having the boys kill chickens. It would engender in them respect for life. A caller challenged: If I attended the funeral of a relative, should he participate in the embalming? If he uses a restroom, should he have to work in the sewage system? Should he have to pick fruit? Prager: We would all be better people if we spent a day collecting garbage. DP believes that we should put on the moccasins of others. P believes that we have to develop our ability for empathy. P complained about the tyranny of the minority - the tiny number of folks who are offended by stuff. P says his chickens live better than one third of humanity. Dennis devoted his third hour to afterlife reward and punishment. His springboard was the Conventional Wisdom column in the latest Newsweek which said that Pol Pot, Cambodian mass murderer, was going to hell. P heartily agreed. P briefly discussed the following story. P believes that the media are too arrogant, and too often invade people's private lives. Friday, April 24, 1998 McCartney Case Raises Questions of Truth, Privacy By ERIC LICHTBLAU, JULIE CART, Times Staff Writers As authorities in Santa Barbara verified Thursday that Linda McCartney did not die there as a family spokesman originally claimed, ethicists and public relations specialists debated a troubling question that has grown out of the controversy: Is it acceptable for celebrities and public figures to lie in order to protect their privacy? "This whole episode is really a glimpse into the clash between two very important moral principles--the notion of privacy and the notion of honesty--and what can happen when those conflict," said ethicist Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey. "As is so often the case, the lying here made it worse." A new statement from a spokesman for Beatles legend Paul McCartney on Thursday appeared to corroborate reports that Linda McCartney had died at a family ranch in the Tucson area last Friday, despite the family's earlier claims that she was on vacation in Santa Barbara at the time. "It was a decoy," family spokesman Geoff Baker admitted. "It was my decision. I said she had died in Santa Barbara, because if I had said where she died it would have been overrun straight away and they needed time, because of their grief, to come back [to England] in private. "Morally, I have done nothing wrong and legally I have done nothing wrong. I am just trying to keep this family together," he said. But the misstatements intended to insulate the McCartneys instead appeared to backfire. Media reports around the world in the past two days have revisited the circumstances of Linda McCartney's death from cancer, sparking speculation--denied by the family--that the 56-year-old former photographer may have died in an assisted suicide.
Bye Bye Prager? alt.talk.radio From: WillWork4food <work4food@gte.net> Date: Wed, Apr 22, 1998 11:06 EDT Sam Rubin, on KTLA Ch.5, said this am, that all of the on-line personalities on KABC were told, in a meeting three weeks ago, that they had better get their ratings up or management would "blow up the station." He said that what management by that was that they would dump all of the station, and start over. Subject: Re: Oparafication of KABC From: jaysonca@aol.com (Jayson Ca) Date: Thu, Apr 23, 1998 22:35 EDT From what I hear BIG CHANGES are coming to KABC.....I heard that some "front office" people will be fired...and then changes on the air....don't know how TRUE this is, but the guy who told me this was right about KMPC-The Zone going all Kids music 2 months before it happen, so.... |
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