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Dan Mandis: January 6th Committee Getting More Coverage Than Inflation ‘Unbelievable’

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Dan Mandis: January 6th Committee Getting More Coverage Than Inflation ‘Unbelievable’

SuperTalk 99.7 WTN morning host Dan Mandis lamented the media coverage of the January 6th Committee and how much notoriety it gets.

“You know what’s funny? (Matt Murphy’s) absolutely right when he talks about CNN, MSNBC, and social media. We do have two separate realities. You have what is really going on. Which is what Americans are dealing with. Like rampant inflation. And what the news — the network news — is covering. Did you know that last night on — I think it was — ABC. They had a graphic — ABC — devoted eight minutes to the January 6th hearing but only seconds to inflation. Unbelievable. It’s unbelievable but it is very believable. It’s not surprising. Let’s put it that way.”

The comments from Mandis came after he joked that Matt Murphy, the afternoon host on SuperTalk 99.7 WTN, continues to leave the television in the studio on CNN to mess with Mandis.

“Just to show you how absolutely insane the networks are — by the way, who keeps putting this television on CNN? The last guy that is in this studio is Matt Murphy. So, I wanna know why Murphy’s show keeps putting it back on CNN.”

However, Mandis did say he agreed with CNN for putting out a somewhat sarcastic story that American’s care more about the cost of french fries than they do about January 6th, calling the network’s story “damn right”.

Sports Media Reacts to Al Michaels Comments On Dan Snyder

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After an explosive report from ESPN revealed Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder had “dirt” on other NFL owners and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, many wondered how Amazon Prime Video and Al Michaels would handle the news during its Thursday Night Football broadcast of the Commanders game.

Longtime NFL play-by-play announcer Al Michaels addressed the report, among many of Snyder’s other transgressions, and had pointed comments about his future as a league owner.

“What the league would love is for Snyder to sell the team,” Michaels said. “Not have it go to a vote, but sell the team. He’s just become a major problem around the league, obviously.”

Many in sports media were surprised by the candor of Michaels. Barrett Sports Media has compiled some of the social media reactions to the comments below.

Gregg Giannotti: Some ‘Mike and The Mad Dog’ Off-Air Fights Were ‘Unbelievable’

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A computer issue during the first hour of Boomer & Gio on WFAN brought up memories of Mike and The Mad Dog for Gregg Giannotti Friday morning.

The call screening software on Boomer Esiason’s in-studio computer wasn’t working, and was told the computers “weren’t talking with each other”. That triggered Esiason’s mind to ask Giannotti about his former on-air cohorts.

“Have you ever worked with a guy that you’ve ever not spoken to outside of the studio and you come back in and everything seems fine? You ever have a problem with anybody?,” Esiason asked.

“Yes. I did. There was a guy I worked on the air with that we did not speak off the air, only on the air,” Giannotti revealed.

“And how did that go?”, questioned Esiason.

“Not great. Not great at all,” Giannotti said. When asked if it was during his time in Pittsburgh, Giannotti confirmed that was the case. Esiason then asked if Giannotti was the offending party, which he denied. “I think it was sort of the opposite.”

Boomer then brought up he had heard that Mike Francesa and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo wouldn’t speak to each other at times, which update anchor Jerry Recco confirmed.

“I worked with them in one of those terrible periods where they did not speak a word to each other off the air,” Recco said.

“But could you tell when they were on the air?”, Esiason asked.

“Yes and no,” Recco admitted. “You could tell because there was — so I was on the board at that time and (Chris) Carlin was the producer — there was a period of time where Chris would open up the show and say ‘Good afternoon, Mike. How are you?’ and he would say ‘I’m fine, Dog. How are you?’ and Chris would do the whole thing, and Mike would just go into sports and not acknowledge him.”

“There was a period, too, where I was working there as the midday producer and they were still there together,” Giannotti reminisced. “Dog would be in the studio, Mike would leave, and Mike would wait outside of the studio until the on-air light would come on to go back into the studio so there wasn’t any time they were together off the air.”

“I just can’t imagine working with someone that I couldn’t just come in and totally feel relaxed with,” Esisason said.

“It’s not a great environment,” Recco admitted.

“I’m very fortunate for 16 years to not have that happen to me,” Esiason concluded. “What were they fighting about?”

“That I don’t know,” Recco said.

Boomer then asked if the disagreements were over money or sports, and Giannotti remembered a specific fight.

“There was a whole — Dog had a problem one time that Mike wasn’t pay as much attention as he should have. I remember that,” said Giannotti. “I saw that fight. It was just me and (John) Minko in the newsroom. I remember they were going at it. They were fighting off the air.”

“Going as hard as they could?”, Boomer asked.

“Yeah, as hard as they can,” Giannotti remembered. “I remember Dog kicking the studio door open and screaming. It was intense. And the way you could tell they were fighting off the air — on the air — was like the littlest arguments or disagreements would turn into these huge debates. Like the one about the Fenway Stadium (sic) bathroom. Do you remember this? Oh my god. It was like a throwaway line one of them had. I think it was Mike saying it wasn’t that difficult to get in and out of the bathrooms in Fenway. And Dog was like ‘ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY CRAZY? IT’S 45 MINUTES OF STANDING OUTSIDE!’,” Giannotti said as he impersonated both former WFAN hosts.

“‘No you’re crazy, Dog’, it was just back and forth screaming at each other about the Fenway Stadium (sic) bathrooms. And you’re like ‘Why?!’ I remember going over and turning the speaker up in the newsroom thinking ‘Woah! This is great!’ Unbelievable.”

Andrew Fillipponi: ESPN A ‘Propaganda Place’ For Mike Tomlin

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have struggled out of the gate, which is something fans haven’t been used to dealing with. Andrew Fillipponi of The PM Team on 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh has sensed a shift in the national perception of Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.

“For a long time for the national media, Mike Tomlin has been off-limits,” Fillipponi surmised. “There have been very, very, very faint criticisms of Tomlin even after things like the Jaguars playoff loss. The Browns playoff loss. Three playoff wins in the last 11 years. He generally has avoided the harshest criticism. That’s been reserved for Ben (Roethlisberger). Well now that Ben’s gone, there’s no more cover. Chris, we pegged this. We nailed this. This is how Tomlin wants this. He wants to be ‘The Man in the Arena’. He hoped it would go the other way. If they were 4-1, he’d be the Coach of the Year.”

“Right, but they’re not. They’re 1-4 and they suck,” co-host Chris Mueller replied. “They’re the odds-on favorite from ESPN to get the #1 pick in the NFL Draft.”

“And speaking of ESPN, they’ve been a long time propaganda place for Tomlin talk. Today, on their morning show with Mike Greenberg — I’m really digging this new insider they’ve brought on, Kimberly Martin. She goes on these shows — the thing I like about her is she’ll go on with Stephen A. and he’ll try to do the routine where he just raises his decibel level and tries to scream her down, and she just hits him with sass and cogent points.”

The show then played a clip of Martin laying the blame for the Steelers stumbles at the feet of Tomlin, before the pair said they appreciated her commentary.

Marie Donoghue Believes Taylor Rooks Is ‘One Of The Best’ Interviewers

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Amazon Prime Video and its production of Thursday Night Football has received mixed reviews from various outlets, but the company’s Vice President of Global Sports Video Marie Donoghue believes it has one of the best reporters available in Taylor Rooks.

In an interview for The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast, Donoghue told Andrew Marchand of The New York Post and John Ourand of Sports Business Journal that Rooks has the uncanny ability to get the best out of all her interview subjects.

“Taylor is one of — except for you two — the best interviewer in the sports business. As you sit down to a meal with Taylor, you will tell her anything. This happens to us all the time. We’re going on site every week — which is really exciting for fans, we hope, but also for us because we all get to spend a lot of time — she’s phenomenal. She gets athletes to talk to her and tell her things. Just amazing conversations.

Amazon Prime Video hired Rooks as a feature reporter for its coverage of Thursday Night Football in August. In addition to her work with Amazon, Rooks also serves as reporter for the NBA on TNT and for Bleacher Report.

Charlie Kirk: Alex Jones Verdict ‘Abhorrent’

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InfoWars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to families whose children were murdered during the Sandy Hook massacre nearly a decade ago, and conservative radio host Charlie Kirk called the judgement “abhorrent”.

Kirk explained he was trending on Twitter after the judgement because of his history of defending Jones.

“Understand I tweeted out about this yesterday about the injustice of someone having to pay a billion dollars for having a wrong opinion or perspective about something,” The Charlie Kirk Show host said. “And I had a lot of people texting me and a lot of people messaging me saying ‘Charlie, lay off the Alex Jones topic. Just stay away from it’. And even today people saying ‘Charlie, just don’t waste your time. Alex Jones is a nut. Just don’t worry about it’. And maybe a couple of years ago, I might have stayed away from it.”

“Let me be very clear: I disagree with Alex Jones on plenty of things. I agree with Alex Jones on somethings,” Kirk continued. “There are plenty of things through the years that Alex Jones could have done differently. Clearly, the Sandy Hook thing was not right. He admits that. He admits it, he said he made a mistake in the Sandy Hook situation. I didn’t like what he did there. A lot of people didn’t like it. So does that mean you can crush someone and bankrupt them and demand a $1 billion judgement?”

Kirk then admitted he wish he had spoken out about Alex Jones being removed from digital platforms after his insistence that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag, calling it a “mistake” and “that was setting the groundwork” to be able for entities to collude to remove conservative voices.

iHeartMedia Atlanta President Fired After Racial Slurs Caught On Video

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iHeartMedia Atlanta President Drew Lauter is “no longer with the company” after a video of him repeatedly using racial slurs was released.

According to a report from WSB-TV, an iHeartMedia spokesperson confirmed the news saying “allegations of this nature go against our company values and our policies and we take them very seriously”. The spokesperson also confirmed Lauter said “the n-word”.

Jason Castle, an attorney for the employee who captured the video in August of 2021, says Lautner used the word “in the presence of four executive employees, one of whom happened to be black”.

Before taking over as President of the Atlanta market for iHeartMedia, Lautner previously served as the Market President for the company’s Madison, WI cluster.

iHeartMedia’s Atlanta cluster includes Atlanta’s Black Information Network WBIN 640 AM.

Nancy Grace to Host Townhall Discussing Crime on Fox Nation

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Legal commentator and journalist Nancy Grace hosted a town hall special that was streamed via FOX Nation dealing with rising crime. The forum called “America’s Crime Crisis” took place in Atlanta, Georgia. 

“Most Americans [are] living in fear – fear not only for themselves but for their children and their families,” said Grace per Fox News Digital. 

Grace carved out a name for herself as a prosecutor at the Atlanta District Attorney’s Office. Her work as an advocate for victims’ rights is well documented. 

Dionne Butler lost a daughter to a fentanyl overdose. She joined the forum to discuss the aftermath of her daughter’s untimely death. 

“I always woke her up every morning for school…, and I went to wake her up, and she didn’t answer, and I thought she was just really asleep, so I went over to touch her, and she was cold,” Dionne said. 

You can watch the entire summit hosted by Nancy Grace with special guests by visiting this link.

Glenn Beck: Alex Jones Verdict ‘Very Damaging’ to First Amendment

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America’s most demonized conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting and an FBI agent this week. The decision was rendered after a Texas jury ordered him to pay $50 million to the parents of another slain child. 

On Thursday, Glenn Beck called the decision “very damaging” to the First Amendment. 

“If we go after Alex Jones, don’t the people that were riding the horses on the [Southern] border,  can’t they sue the Federal Government for a billion dollars because the DHS came out yesterday admitting to falsifying the whipping incident?” Beck asked. 

Steve Burguiere aka “Stu” said that he never thought of Alex Jones as the head conspirator when it came to the Sandy Hook shooting story. 

“He had guests on that said things and he did say things that he apologized for but the fact that someone in his audience that may or may not have heard this from Alex Jones and may have gone and harassed one of these families, that person should be held responsible for those actions, not the person you think you may have heard it from,” Stu said. 

Beck said the problem is one of the victims killed himself behind what a Jones supporter may have said to him. 

“It’s natural to want to punish somebody,” added Beck. “If you watched the verdict, none of the parents were celebrating like they were going to get rich. Those people broke down and sobbed immediately. You could see this was closure for them.” 

WABC Did Outstanding Job Honoring Bernard McGuirk

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The WABC Radio family has been dealing with the tragic loss of Bernard McGuirk, who passed away last week following a courageous battle with prostate cancer. McGuirk had been co-hosting the popular Bernie and Sid Morning Show with Sid Rosenberg for the last few years.

McGuirk had been on the air in New York City since 1986 and was the longtime executive producer of the nationally syndicated program “Imus in the Morning.” In 2007, McGuirk moved to WABC with Don Imus, the late radio icon, and his “personality from day one dramatically improved the camaraderie and morale of the entire radio station,” the station said in a statement.

And while there is no blueprint on how to honor the loss of a host on the station, WABC did an outstanding job over a difficult past week. In the immediate aftermath of Bernie’s death, fill-in hosts did an impressive job filling in for Sid Rosenberg, who did call into the station the day after his co-hosts passing, along with station staples like Bill O’Reilly, Peter King and several others. 

Then, there was the Bernie McGuirk Tribute Show this week. Many of the familiar faces from the “Imus in the Morning” program from Mike Breen, Charles McCord, Connell McShane and others, along with friends of the program, fellow station hosts, New York and national radio legends like Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo all joined the program to discuss the life of Bernie as a person and as a broadcaster.

The show was incredibly well put together, flowed, was somber, yet fun, touching, but light, all wrapped into one. It was the perfect mix. And the common theme was the lasting impression Bernie had on the lives of many in the business, along with the millions of listeners who tuned into him over the years across New York City. 

Listening to much of the show was a great reminder to those of us who get to do what we do every day: people are tuned in. You’re a part of their lives and routines. And while we rarely get to see them and we don’t hear from the large majority of the audience via phone calls, texts, tweets, etc., they’re there, and they’re loyal.

Audio has always been the most intimate medium. It’s a theater of the mind. It’s one-on-one, especially talk radio. That makes it that much more impactful to the listener. And being there every single day matters. Bernie McGuirk was there nearly every day as part of the lives of millions of New Yorkers for over 35 years.

And WABC encapsulated the life and memory of one of the best to ever do it in an empathetic and entertaining manner. R.I.P Bernard McGuirk. 

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