| 4-23-98
By Luke Ford
On KABC radio AM 790, Dennis Prager opened his show discussing
the following news story:
Boy Scout Troop Leaders Under Fire
.c The Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) - Boy Scout troop leaders are being roasted for arranging
to let hatchet-wielding scouts catch, kill and dress chickens for
a camp dinner.
Leaders of Lake Highlands Troop 890 said they wanted to show scouts
how their meals got to the table.
``Chicken to them is a chicken nugget,'' said Scoutmaster James
Shepherd. ``So the feeling was that, educationally, if they could
see this is where their chicken comes from, it would be good for
them.''
So the troop, on a camping trip Saturday, was turned loose on
a flock of chickens from a processing plant. The scouts were shown
how to kill, pluck, dress and prepare chickens for eating.
Ten to 15 of the 80 scouts declined to participate, and two parents
later complained.
``It was obvious they were upset,'' Shepherd said. ``In retrospect,
we obviously shouldn't have done it.''
Luke:
Prager thought the Scouts did a good thing in having the boys
kill chickens. It would engender in them respect for life.
A caller challenged: If I attended the funeral of a relative,
should he participate in the embalming?
If he uses a restroom, should he have to work in the sewage system?
Should he have to pick fruit?
Prager: We would all be better people if we spent a day collecting
garbage.
DP believes that we should put on the moccasins of others.
P believes that we have to develop our ability for empathy.
P complained about the tyranny of the minority - the tiny number
of folks who are offended by stuff.
P says his chickens live better than one third of humanity.
Dennis devoted his third hour to afterlife reward and punishment.
His springboard was the Conventional Wisdom column in the latest
Newsweek which said that Pol Pot, Cambodian mass murderer, was going
to hell. P heartily agreed.
P briefly discussed the following story. P believes that
the media are too arrogant, and too often invade people's private
lives.
Friday, April 24, 1998
McCartney Case Raises Questions of Truth, Privacy
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, JULIE CART, Times Staff Writers
As authorities in Santa Barbara verified Thursday that Linda McCartney
did not die there as a family spokesman originally claimed, ethicists
and public relations specialists debated a troubling question that
has grown out of the controversy: Is it acceptable for celebrities
and public figures to lie in order to protect their privacy?
"This whole episode is really a glimpse into the clash between
two very important moral principles--the notion of privacy and the
notion of honesty--and what can happen when those conflict," said
ethicist Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute
of Ethics in Marina del Rey.
"As is so often the case, the lying here made it worse."
A new statement from a spokesman for Beatles legend Paul McCartney
on Thursday appeared to corroborate reports that Linda McCartney
had died at a family ranch in the Tucson area last Friday, despite
the family's earlier claims that she was on vacation in Santa Barbara
at the time.
"It was a decoy," family spokesman Geoff Baker admitted. "It was
my decision. I said she had died in Santa Barbara, because if I
had said where she died it would have been overrun straight away
and they needed time, because of their grief, to come back [to England]
in private.
"Morally, I have done nothing wrong and legally I have done nothing
wrong. I am just trying to keep this family together," he said.
But the misstatements intended to insulate the McCartneys instead
appeared to backfire. Media reports around the world in the past
two days have revisited the circumstances of Linda McCartney's death
from cancer, sparking speculation--denied by the family--that the
56-year-old former photographer may have died in an assisted suicide.
Bye Bye Prager?
alt.talk.radio
From: WillWork4food <work4food@gte.net>
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 1998 11:06 EDT
Sam Rubin, on KTLA Ch.5, said this am, that all of the on-line
personalities on KABC were told, in a meeting three weeks ago, that
they had better get their ratings up or management would "blow up
the station." He said that what management by that was that they
would dump all of the station, and start over.
Subject: Re: Oparafication of KABC
From: jaysonca@aol.com (Jayson Ca)
Date: Thu, Apr 23, 1998 22:35 EDT
From what I hear BIG CHANGES are coming to KABC.....I heard that
some "front office" people will be fired...and then changes on the
air....don't know how TRUE this is, but the guy who told me this
was right about KMPC-The Zone going all Kids music 2 months before
it happen, so....
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