...I thought that there were no new depths that the hosts of KSFO could sink to. I was wrong.
On the anniversary of the thousands who died in the Katrina flooding Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan attacking Katrina refugees telling them to stop their sniveling and whining, to get off their butts, shut up and grow up. (Of course the people who DIED from the flooding will NEVER grow up and their voices are silenced forever).
Last week Brian Sussman and "Officer Vic" joked about rape. They did this right before their interview with the coach of the Raiders. (KSFO is the Raiders flagship station)
Of course I don't write Rodgers or Morgan, if you disagree with Rodgers he suggests, " We'll trace you back, run you down and kill you like a mad dog ." audio link) (and that is directed to his Republican critics, so I guess he is crossing the aisle to suggest killing Republicans too.)
And it makes no sense to write to local management, there is nothing that they can say that their management won't stand behind. Torturing and killing a black man? Fine. Hog-tying and burning a man alive? No problem. Lighting a dog on fire? Big joke, keep those Purina endorsements coming.The management won't be doing any disavowing or denouncing of what they say on the air.
Citadel Broadcasting seems to think that Rodgers, Morgan, Sussman and Benner are assets and not liabilities. They renewed Rodgers contract, so as far as I'm concerned they are now complicit in what he says.I don't really understand why they renewed his contract. Maybe he has one of those Don Imus contracts where he can sue if he is fired, so I don't expect them to do anything. And they can't use "the market should decide!" line anymore, in January of this year the market spoke back, they lost 28 advertisers and I estimate 1/2 a million dollars in revenue when we alerted the advertisers to what they were saying,
Might these new horrific comments cost them their Raiders broadcast franchise? We can suggest it. Considering that their new star quarterback played for Louisiana State University and hosted Katrina refugees in his two bedroom apartment following the flood, he might not appreciate Rodgers calling his friends and family "sniveling whiners". Of course the Katrina dead can't speak up to Rodgers' management. They can't tell the Raiders and the NFL marketing team that being associated with KSFO radio hosts is morally repugnant.
But the hard-headed folks say, sports is a business and as long as they deliver their numbers, nobody will care. Welllll, perhaps the Raiders are looking for an excuse to disentangle themselves from this station, maybe they aren't delivering their numbers or demographics. We do know that the NFL is working to disassociate themselves with dog abusers and cheaters, why not radio station hosts who want potential listeners dead?
Maybe now is the time that they consider a move, after all, when the majority of the listeners in the bay area are insulted by the hosts of the station, maybe there are other stations that won't work to actively drive away potential audience members.
For the last week I worked on the post/letter below, (thanks to everyone who helped!). If any of you want to use it to push this conversation forward regarding what is really going on in rebuilding following the Katrina flooding, or why rape isn't funny, please be my guest.
I'm thinking that getting this to anyone you know with in the Saints, Raiders, or NFL would be good, or to other bloggers in the sports world or sports talk radio people. If this leads to some SF vs New Orleans talk and "How dare they say that being in earthquake country!" fine. I want a conversation about Katrina disaster and recovery and who is really behind the problems (hint, it's not the victims.)
http://www.spockosbrain.com/2007/09/nfl-radio-station-hosts-joke-about-rape
Below is a list of names and email addresses that I dug up the only ones that I'm sure have reached the target so far is the LSU one and the two from WWL the Saints flagship radio station.
Let me know if you write anyone and get any responses...
Roger Goodell
NFL Commissioner
Roger.Goodell2@nfl.net
Anastasia Danias, Assistant General Counsel, National Football League Properties LLC
DaniasA@NFL.com
National Football League
Greg Aiello, Vice President of Public Relations -aiellog@nfl.com
Peter Murray, Senior Vice President of Partnership Marketing and Sales-murrayp@nfl.com
Jaime Weston, Director Brand Management & Integration Marketing & Sales - westonj@nfl.com
Beth Colleton, Director of Community Affairs -colletonb@nfl.com
New Orleans Saints
Tom Benson, Owner Via Fax
Mickey Loomis, Executive Vice President/General Manager -loomism@saints.nfl.com
Greg Bensel, Vice President of Communications - benselg@saints.nfl.com
Ben Hales, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development - halesb@saints.nfl.com
Oakland Raiders
Amy Trask, CEO - traska@raiders.com, feedback@raiders.com
Chris Gargano, Raiders Director of Broadcasting -garganoc@raiders.nfl.com
Mike Taylor, Director of Public Relations -miket@raiders.com
ABC Radio Networks
James M. Robinson, President, ABC Radio Networks -- Phone (212) 887-1670
Entercom Radio Network
Ken Beck, VP, General Manager of Entercom New Orleans - kbeck@entercom.com
Kenny Wilkerson, WWL, flagship radio station of the Saints - kwilkerson@entercom.com
Bobby Hebert, WWL - bhebert@entercom.com
KRON, Channel 4 San Francisco
Gary Radnich - askgary@kron4.com
LSU
Charles Baglio, Director of External Football Relations - football@lsu.edu
Oakland Assemblymember Sandré Swanson - Sandre@SandreSwanson.org
(Not only is Swanson an Assemblymember from Oakland, it was his bill, AB 1334 designed to stop the spread of aids that gave Sussman the idea to joke about rape.).
Melanie Morgan, Brian Sussman, and Lee Rodgers have had a real neonazi neocon hatefest at KSFO for awhile. And Mr. Rodgers, please feel free to trace me back and run me down. I'm not Republican, nor a Pelosi DINOcrat though, so I won't respond quite like the chickenhawks you've been bullying for years.
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