Yes, like the rest of you, I cringe and hide when any of the shows strays into current events as a segment topic. It's almost always bad radio, and sometimes embarrassing at how uninformed our heroes are on both left and right. How many times have you heard them launch into a topic, only to come to a screeching halt because they don't really know some fairly basic facts about it? "More Questions than Answers," a nice little self-mocking promo/drop.
But I was intrigued by Junior Miller's global warming talk yesterday morning during the 5:30-Post-Rich-Phillips-Epic-Mother-of-All-Tickers segment in two respects.
First, Junior actually began his report of his skepticism over the global warming (hardly no damn hurricanes) with the distinction that too few people make -- there may be global warming, but it is not primarily the result of human endeavor. That is, you can believe in global warming as a phenomenon, and even be very concerned about it, without agreeing that human commercial activity should be forcibly reordered.
Second, Gordon offered support for my theory that he is The Great Ticket Moderate [Gordon as Great Ticket Moderate]. Making fun of the liberal position on Global Warming, he noted that the left has renamed it "Climate Change," and has essentially adopted a no-lose position that any adverse climatic effect is decisively influenced by human activity. To my ear, Gordon is charming when he adopts this kind of faintly self-mocking tone (only it's not really self-mocking, because he never strongly held the mocked position to begin with if he held it at all).
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I wasn't around DFW in 2001, so I'd like to invite the Confessor to give us his or her recollections of how The Ticket handled things. We've heard about what happened on that day many times, but yesterday they said they were pretty much all 9/11 all the time for a couple of weeks, with only an occasional sports shot. I was a listener at the time to WSCR "The Score" in Chicago -- I was probably listening to the Mike Murphy show in the morning on that day -- but I couldn't tell you what they broadcast for the next little while and I may have been tuned to NPR for that post 9/11 period.
But I'll bet y'all were tuned to The Ticket, and do remember. What is your recollection of how The Ticket handled the days and weeks after 9/11?
But I'll bet y'all were tuned to The Ticket, and do remember. What is your recollection of how The Ticket handled the days and weeks after 9/11?
