Dan Kennedy: Finneran embraces the dark side - again, notes his first client is a group that insures bars against lawsuits from drunken patrons who get into car accidents and the like - because they can't get insurance anywhere else:
... So, let's see. A man staggers out of a bar, wraps his car around a telephone pole and is seriously injured. His family sues the bar, claiming the bartender should have known he was drunk and refused to serve him. Finneran the talk-show host rails against the suit, claiming that the driver should take responsibility for his actions and that tort reform is needed to prevent such frivolous lawsuits. And Finneran the lobbyist pockets another check from the organization that stands to benefit from such "reform." Got it. ...
The Outraged Liberal is just as concerned about a quote from the director of Northeastern's journalism school about the conflict, because it seems to equate what Finneran does on air with actual journalism:
... To even put "serious news organization" and "talk radio host" in the same sentence suggests a problem with concepts that I would not expect of someone who runs a pretty good journalism school.
How does Finneran, an attorney at law, fail to respond appropriately to the apparent conflict of interest in both lobbying and opining on issues related to that lobbying on broadcast radio without disclosing those interests repeatedly throughout his broadcasts?
Good for WRKO for being attentive to the issue.
Score points for ethical media.
Score 'tin ear' and sense of entitlement for Tom Finneran.
But basically Kennedy says if WRKO management had a single brain cell devoted to ethics, they would fire his sorry ass yesterday (only Dan, being more polite, doesn't quite put it that way).
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Dan Kennedy: Finneran embraces the dark side - again, notes his first client is a group that insures bars against lawsuits from drunken patrons who get into car accidents and the like - because they can't get insurance anywhere else:
Richard Howe wonders What is WRKO going to do about morning talk show host Tom Finneran?
Brian: Especially bold is Finneran's assertion he will attempt to bore Boston for years to come with his awful attempt at talk radio.
The Outraged Liberal is just as concerned about a quote from the director of Northeastern's journalism school about the conflict, because it seems to equate what Finneran does on air with actual journalism:
How does Finneran, an
How does Finneran, an attorney at law, fail to respond appropriately to the apparent conflict of interest in both lobbying and opining on issues related to that lobbying on broadcast radio without disclosing those interests repeatedly throughout his broadcasts?
Good for WRKO for being attentive to the issue.
Score points for ethical media.
Score 'tin ear' and sense of entitlement for Tom Finneran.
What's Dan Kennedy say?
See link above
But basically Kennedy says if WRKO management had a single brain cell devoted to ethics, they would fire his sorry ass yesterday (only Dan, being more polite, doesn't quite put it that way).