The end of Mark Madden? UPDATED: He's FIRED!

[BitterYoungMatador2]

John is now doing 7-10 weeknights on KDKA-AM.
Stan has TV at 6:30, so no to that one.
I'd hope they move Junker and Crow to 3-7, 10-1 is a dead zone for them anyway.

You really think John Steigerwald wouldn't jump, I mean jump as far and fast as he can, to be back in the thick of sports talk on a sports station at drive time and dump the ridiculous "political guy talk" show he currently has been relegated to at a time slot when nobody even knows he is on?

You are kidding yourself.

Stan is not full time with FSN any more and has said on numerous occassions both publicly and privately he'd love to get back to his roots which are doing sports talk radio full time.

Again, you are kidding yourself if you don't think that he'd jump at the chance.

And the reason 10 to 1 is dead time for Guy and Eddie Crow is because their show is lame and pretty damn boring -- so moving them to 3-to-7 will ensure WEAE will sprial down into oblivion.

Like it or not, the only reason the station was remotely relevant was because of Madden -- and the GM and PD both know this which is why they continually looked the other way.

Then the both of them should have been shirtcanned along with Madden. Madden may have been the cash cow, but after being told time after time to can his shirt, and he continues, clearly shows that spineless conglomerate radio empires like Infinity, CBS, and Disney doesn't want to lose money, so they won't take action unless someone really does something to embarass them.

I wouldn't be surprised if XM picks him up by year's end. XM is the Boys Town of over-the-line radio hosts/shock jocks.

Yes, please, lets recycle Savran and Steigerwald AGAIN. Christ almighty, no wonder that town is stuck in the 1970s, thats when most of these talking heads arrived and they never left because they kept getting re-hired.

 

[Starman]

Maybe, maybe not. Guys like that are a dime a dozen all over the country. I haven't heard him, so I don't know that there's anything special to distinguish him from all the other shirt-mouths.

I don't know if this is a good day or something to be celebrated.

I find it amazing that some of the same lib's who are always railing and whining against corproate evils and corporate controls are now applauding yet another step by corporate America to sanitize the airwaves -- is that something to be celebrated?

And is a man losing his job because he said something dumb about a guy who we've determined is beloved something we should celebrate?

Dumbforks like Madden losing their jobs is something that should ALWAYS be celebrated. IQ point by IQ point, the airwaves become a tiny bit smarter.

You not liking or agreeing with someone is not nearly enough to make him a dumbfork worthy of being fired. And I'd bet there are some shock jocks you like who a lot of other people think are dipshirts that need kicked off the air.

This is not about Mark Madden, it is about how much corporate America and our government have taken over the media and the airwaves and continue to suck the life out of the first amendment thanks to political correctness.

There aren't many of the "shock jocks" I like, pretty much anywhere.

Madden's past with the Steelers, the Penguins, Jim Leyland, the various wrestling freak shows, yadda yadda blah blah, I know little or nothing about and care less. What tore it for me was his column a couple years ago after the 13-year-old girl, Brittanie Cecil, was killed by a puck fired into the stands at a Columbus Blue Jackets game, and the NHL took the entirely reasonable step of extending protective netting over additional sections of the stands, and Madden went apeshirt-ballistic in a column, bellowing that extending the netting would "destroy the game" (in reality of course it's barely noticeable), and adding for good measure that Cecil was probably a ditzy airhead playing with Barbie dolls in the stands, this is what happens when chickies come to hockey games, and she pretty much deserved whatever she got.

Jesus Flaming Christ on a plutonium-powered pogo stick, I'm a brutal and crass hardass 97% of the time, but that was pretty much without qualification the most asinine thing I have ever read in a supposedly legitimate publication. Madden should have been snuffed from the airwaves and the printed page forever, pretty much the next morning.

Ted Kennedy I'm much less concerned about, he's a big boy and can take care of himself, and the last thing he probably cares about is some forking fatass maggot like Mark Madden saying snotty things about him, but since it continued the basic pattern as shown in the Brittanie Cecil incident, it's time to drop the pill on Mark. Nighty night, fatboy.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08149/885330-80.stm

 

[Ben_Hecht]

At least corporate ESPN made a firm judgment on a matter of "taste".

Overdue? Yeah. But we're grateful for small favors.

 

[outofplace]

"I'm not leaving until Mark Madden gets his job back! Or when these chickens get cold. Whatever comes first."

That's a very determined Red X.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I won't celebrate, but I ain't shedding any tears either.

 

[Notepad]

Now this is VERY interesting:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08149/885374-139.stm

 

[outofplace]

Now this is VERY interesting:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08149/885374-139.stm

Meaning the references to Smizik's issues with Madden. That might be fair criticism of the P-G, though good luck finding a decent reporter in that town that didn't at least have some issue with Madden.

 

[Starman]

Now this is VERY interesting:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08149/885374-139.stm

Idiots. Single-digit IQs.

Anybody with a functioning cerebral cortex would have problems with Madden.

 

[zagoshe]

John is now doing 7-10 weeknights on KDKA-AM.
Stan has TV at 6:30, so no to that one.
I'd hope they move Junker and Crow to 3-7, 10-1 is a dead zone for them anyway.

You really think John Steigerwald wouldn't jump, I mean jump as far and fast as he can, to be back in the thick of sports talk on a sports station at drive time and dump the ridiculous "political guy talk" show he currently has been relegated to at a time slot when nobody even knows he is on?

You are kidding yourself.

Stan is not full time with FSN any more and has said on numerous occassions both publicly and privately he'd love to get back to his roots which are doing sports talk radio full time.

Again, you are kidding yourself if you don't think that he'd jump at the chance.

And the reason 10 to 1 is dead time for Guy and Eddie Crow is because their show is lame and pretty damn boring -- so moving them to 3-to-7 will ensure WEAE will sprial down into oblivion.

Like it or not, the only reason the station was remotely relevant was because of Madden -- and the GM and PD both know this which is why they continually looked the other way.

Then the both of them should have been shirtcanned along with Madden. Madden may have been the cash cow, but after being told time after time to can his shirt, and he continues, clearly shows that spineless conglomerate radio empires like Infinity, CBS, and Disney doesn't want to lose money, so they won't take action unless someone really does something to embarass them.

I wouldn't be surprised if XM picks him up by year's end. XM is the Boys Town of over-the-line radio hosts/shock jocks.

Yes, please, lets recycle Savran and Steigerwald AGAIN. Christ almighty, no wonder that town is stuck in the 1970s, thats when most of these talking heads arrived and they never left because they kept getting re-hired.

Don't think for a minute that isn't 100 percent accurate -- those are the kinds of guys who always get hired for this kind of plum job --- then they get fired or re-assigned when people in charge realize that dry, dull sports yakking and references to the 60's and 70's and the way sports used to be is not exactly the way to build an audience that isn't likely to die off in the next five years.......

 

[ink-stained wretch]

Too often when the great unwashed speak of their "freedom of speech", what they asking for is freedom from consequences.

Judge as you like the gentleman's words. His employers had clearly defined what they considered appropriate speech for their station. They concluded he violated the standard and terminated him.

End of story.

BTW: who really gives a rat's ass about Pittsburgh sports talk radio? Get a grip.

 

[outofplace]

Too often when the great unwashed speak of their "freedom of speech", what they asking for is freedom from consequences.

Judge as you like the gentleman's words. His employers had clearly defined what they considered appropriate speech for their station. They concluded he violated the standard and terminated him.

End of story.

BTW: who really gives a rat's ass about Pittsburgh sports talk radio? Get a grip.

The people on this thread apparently care.

But this isn't just about Pittsburgh sports talk radio. It is about some jackass who made all members of the sports media look bad finally facing some consequences for his behavior.

Plus, Zag wanted to argue, so that kept things moving for a bit.