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

[Trey Beamon]

Re: The end of Mark Madden? UPDATED: He's suspended

I got an email from a friend of mine tonight who is very close to the situation.
GM will be looking for a new job tomorrow, Madden ain't far behind.

You were right about that, markvid. HE'S GONE!!!!

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08148/885212-100.stm

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Re: The end of Mark Madden? UPDATED: He's suspended

Finally. Goodbye and good riddance.

 

[outofplace]

Re: The end of Mark Madden? UPDATED: He's suspended

I hate to take pleasure in somebody else's misfortune, but this one time, I just can't help it.

Well deserved and long overdue.

 

[markvid]

I don't take pleasure in it.
I am glad to see, however, a corporation do the right thing instead of worrying about ratings.
A Pens Stanley Cup run and he's got no outlet. He has to be going nuts.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Within a year, his own Sirius show.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

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.

 

[markvid]

He's not anything special.
If he had been, he'd not have been in Pittsburgh.
Had the Sunday slot on ESPN Radio nationally, they hated him in that slot, he lost it.
He had the WCW slot, that's not talk radio, and he got fired from that anyway.
He's done.

 

[Bubbler]

I can't believe this many people care about Lou Albino's loser son. That's what he looks like to me.

 

[markvid]

We only cared because no one polluted Pittsburgh airwaves like he did.

 

[zagoshe]

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?

I didn't like the man's show because it was way too hockey-heavy and the references to WWF and Liverpool soccer became tired, but there was an audience and as an advocate of the first amendment I'm thinking this trend of "oh my God, a shock jock said something mean let's get him fired" is not a good one.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

So we should just let someone make an inhumane remark like that? Because he's paid to shoot from the lip?

I'm all for freedom of speech, but not when it takes a backseat to being a decent human being.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I'm sure this is a business decision. Disney doesn't want to be associated with some jackass saying he wished Ted Kennedy would be assassinated. Advertisers don't want to be associated with that kind of crap.

BTW, how old is this guy?