NY Post at it again

[circpro]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05202007/tv/watch_out__dont_step_in_opie__anthony_tv_phil_mush nick.htm

WATCH OUT, DON'T STEP IN OPIE & ANTHONY

May 20, 2007 -- Okay, then, so where is a good place to perform a bad act?

If your stock in trade is behaving like a low-life, where's the preferred stage?

If you're a social vandal - if your mission is to throw garbage around - what makes one avenue better than another?

The most recent, same old stir-causing noises to come from the same old shock jocks - a detached, pathetic soul on Opie & Anthony's XM Satellite Radio show, responding to prompts, spewed vulgar about Laura Bush, Condoleeza Rice and Queen Elizabeth - provided more evidence that, try is it might, the entertainment business still doesn't have a good place for dirt to shine.

No, this isn't about censorship, or freedom of speech or freedom of expression. Hey, you want to be a creep for a living? Knock yourself out. Just don't spray paint obscenities on the walls in my home.

This isn't about censorship or the FCC or taste; it's about years of entertainment industry rationalizations that always identify a newer form of delivery service as the "perfect place" for low-road acts.

Years ago, when the shock-jock genre began to spread throughout AM radio, FM radio was determined to be the far better forum for such shows. For some reason, cruel name calling, crotch talk and doo-doo jokes were supposed to play better on FM.

But they didn't play any better or worse on FM; they played the same.

And now satellite radio is widely regarded as the far better home for raunchy radio.

Howard Stern moved from AM to FM and now he's on satellite Radio - where he can be more vulgar than ever before! Well, good for you, Howard!

Same goes for Opie & Anthony, who are very naughty little middle-aged boys on their FM show, but are even naughtier on their XM show.

But what would have made what was said on Opie & Anthony's satellite show any better had it been spoken on AM, FM or into a bullhorn?

f there's a form of entertainment that very intentionally aims low - that seeks to further desensitize an audience that doesn't need much of a push - where is the "best" place for it?

Would Don Imus's "nappy-headed ho's" comment played better on FM - and even better on satellite? Or might it be that wrong is wrong and bad is bad, thus there really is no better place for it?

We've seen this in TV, too, when cable became the "better place" for programming deemed too objectionable for over-the-air TV. But what difference does it make?

In MTV, we have a cable network that targets kids and teens through programming that's excessively rude, crude and lewd. That's sick, no?

MTV is fully designed to provide inappropriate programming for young audiences. But because MTV's a cable network we should feel better about it?

Would The Hate Network - "The Nazi Breakfast Club" followed by "The Best of Louis Farakkhan" followed by "The Do-It-Yourself Explosives Show" - be better suited for FM or satellite?

Pit bull fighting doesn't belong on broadcast TV or cable, but might it work on pay-per-view? Or perhaps it would be best suited for a pay-per-view/satellite radio simulcast. Yeah, that's the ticket!

And so the search continues for the best place to put bad stuff. And therein lies the hopeful news: Try as they might, they still haven't found it; they can throw garbage out of any window they choose. But whenever and wherever it lands, it's still garbage.

Nice job by Ch. 2 News, landing that "World Exclusive" with David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz. Attached to endless promotion, Ch. 2 stretched it over three nights.

But more than a dozen years ago, Berkowitz began to grant TV interviews. He's good that way. He may be doing life in prison, but he always takes time out from his busy schedule.

[FMDoug]

Is that a news piece or an op/ed?

If it's news then I'm sorry for the Post because that would be a terribly written article with no facts aside from people speak dirty on the radio.

The post is trash anyway. if it wasn't for page 6 then paper would be belly up.

[topher520]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05202007/tv/watch_out__dont_step_in_opie__anthony_tv_phil_mush nick.htm


Eeeeewww!

[TallBaby]

What exactly is this guys point?

Satellite Radio and Subscription TV channels ARE the perfect place for it.

[fuckwit]

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If there's a form of entertainment that very intentionally aims low - that seeks to further desensitize an audience that doesn't need much of a push - where is the "best" place for it?

Would Don Imus's "nappy-headed ho's" comment played better on FM - and even better on satellite? Or might it be that wrong is wrong and bad is bad, thus there really is no better place for it?

We've seen this in TV, too, when cable became the "better place" for programming deemed too objectionable for over-the-air TV. But what difference does it make?

In MTV, we have a cable network that targets kids and teens through programming that's excessively rude, crude and lewd. That's sick, no?

MTV is fully designed to provide inappropriate programming for young audiences. But because MTV's a cable network we should feel better about it?

Would The Hate Network - "The Nazi Breakfast Club" followed by "The Best of Louis Farakkhan" followed by "The Do-It-Yourself Explosives Show" - be better suited for FM or satellite?

Pit bull fighting doesn't belong on broadcast TV or cable, but might it work on pay-per-view? Or perhaps it would be best suited for a pay-per-view/satellite radio simulcast. Yeah, that's the ticket!

And so the search continues for the best place to put bad stuff. And therein lies the hopeful news: Try as they might, they still haven't found it; they can throw garbage out of any window they choose. But whenever and wherever it lands, it's still garbage.

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Nice job by Ch. 2 News, landing that "World Exclusive" with David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz. Attached to endless promotion, Ch. 2 stretched it over three nights.

But more than a dozen years ago, Berkowitz began to grant TV interviews. He's good that way. He may be doing life in prison, but he always takes time out from his busy schedule.

phil mushnick sounds a bitter, dontcha think?

[mills]

"a detached, pathetic soul on Opie & Anthony's XM Satellite Radio show, responding to prompts, spewed vulgar about Laura Bush, Condoleeza Rice and Queen Elizabeth"
I'm so sick of that shitty lie. Taken and amplified from the original, shitty, lying report. How long has it been and it still hasn't been called out.

Charlie volunteered rice's name and he volunteered bush's name. The only name O&A "prompted" was Queen Elizabeth's.

Which of course was the only one charlie didn't want to fuck, but I guess that's neither here nor there yet.

[Hidden_Rage]

Well... Looks like he went away from Vince McMahon for once and is now against the boys..


Phil is a douchebag.

[DoucheSatchel]

Am I the only one here that wants to shit in Phils mouth?

[nonameneeded]

I'm so sick of that shitty lie. Taken and amplified from the original, shitty, lying report. How long has it been and it still hasn't been called out.

Indeed! People just keep adding their own bullshit spin on it. Pretty soon, it will be that Opie & Anthony simulated forced, violent sex with cut-outs of these three prominent female figures on the streets of NYC. And yet, as you said, they never get called out on their complete lies.

[zoloft smile]

i didn't know phil mushnick was still alive, sorry to hear about that.

[Hogmeister]

Would The Hate Network - "The Nazi Breakfast Club" followed by "The Best of Louis Farakkhan" followed by "The Do-It-Yourself Explosives Show" - be better suited for FM or satellite?



tell me those aren' really shows? holy shit i got to find that out.. if they are, i say bring them to the virus PLEASE ;)

anyway that article was probly the worst article i've read in a while, meaningless rant from an old douchebag. end of story

[bushleaguer]

This comes as no surprise - NY Post has become a conservative rag ever since it was taken over by Rupert Murdoch and his media empire (see Fox News and their wealth of attention to the "controversy").
If anyone needs proof that this is politically motivated, look no further than the NY Post's response to the Iraq Study Group's final report and the "Surrender Monkeys" headline from last fall.

It's sad that one of the oldest newspapers in the country has become so bad. Paul Mushnick should take a moment and read his own paper, because it is one step away from being displayed next to the National Enquirer.

[fkornre]

No, this isn't about censorship, or freedom of speech or freedom of expression. Hey, you want to be a creep for a living? Knock yourself out. Just don't spray paint obscenities on the walls in my home.
what is wrong with this guy???? it is a PAY service...if you dont want to hear it you dont have to PAY to listen to it...he makes it sound like everyone is subjected to what goes on satellite radio...what an ass!

[coachb26]

phil mushnick is a douche.

[Gill27]

Just don't spray paint obscenities on the walls in my home.

How the fuck do comments like these constantly go by uncalled? Did he lose the power in his fingers to turn a dial or flip an on/off switch? When did people start to think they had the right to be able to watch/listen to anything they want, regardless of how they are advertised, and not be offended?

[O&A_Fan]

what is wrong with this guy???? it is a PAY service...if you dont want to hear it you dont have to PAY to listen to it...he makes it sound like everyone is subjected to what goes on satellite radio...what an ass!


Hmmm.... me thinks we should maybe submit some of our OWN articles to the Post saying exactly this. Do they have a place in their paper for readers to submit stuff? Most newspapers do. We should at LEAST write to the Post and tell them we're outraged at the lies going on in the Post about O&A. That it was Charlie that said what he did about Bush and Rice.

[O&A_Fan]

Time for the Pest to step it up a notch and add them to the email list.

[fkornre]

I just sent off a nice email to phil and the post...

[mikepop]

I stepped in Mushnick once,I hadda throw out my shoes.

[Melk]

Phil is too much of a bitter old man to make a logical connection between rude, crude and lewd behavior and his own brand of arrogant, presumptuous and marginalizing rhetoric.

Being a ho on MTV shouting about how you are "all dat" isn't all that much different than calling "Opie and Anthony" excrement. The whole trend in American society is based on the marginalization of everything. Phil Mushnik still believes that glibness and name-calling is the essence of persuasive dialectic discourse. However, I think he forgets how most people instinctively will act against even their own best interests when they are savagely assaulted verbally.

[Perch1019]

Mushnick is an ass hole. Hes nothing but an old curmudgeon who has a problem with anything that isnt PC in this world. He used to be relentless against the WWF back in the late 90s, early 2000s when it was at its peak again.
The most infuriating thing about this cunt is when he takes an entire sports broadcast and somehow finds the one flaw in the whole thing and then turns it into an article. The guy has some hatrid towards ESPN especially. Im guessing he tried to get a job from them and they wanted nothing to do with his cranky old ass. Ive never read anything nice this guy has written. Nothing but complaints
Bob Raissman of the Daily News is another ass just like him

[BCH]

what is wrong with this guy???? it is a PAY service...if you dont want to hear it you dont have to PAY to listen to it...he makes it sound like everyone is subjected to what goes on satellite radio...what an ass!

Actually, I cancelled days ago and my radios still work.


The only name O&A "prompted" was Queen Elizabeth's.
Which of course was the only one charlie didn't want to fuck


A guy's gotta have his standards.

[powerbyte]

Phil= UNFUNNY DOUCHEBAG!

[powerbyte]

The most infuriating thing about this cunt is when he takes an entire sports broadcast and somehow finds the one flaw in the whole thing and then turns it into an article.


CUNT is too good of a word for him

[Iron Duke]

Phil who?

[FoOdNiPpLe]

This isn't about censorship or the FCC or taste

Well ofcourse it's not about the fcc silly,since they're not involved in this particular situation.

No, this isn't about censorship, or freedom of speech or freedom of expression.

Sarcasm doesn't do well on paper.

Hey, you want to be a creep for a living?

No.


Knock yourself out. Just don't spray paint obscenities on the walls in my home.

Who talks like that? "Spray paint obscenities" i'd probably have him fired just for using that phrase. And no one is spray painting anything in your home you cockshrimp. It's something you pay for and choose to have,no one is shoving your ugly face into the radio speakers and forcing you to listen to it. And if that werent enough, the letters "XL" are in the channel's title and description to let you know that it's explicit content.

The article overall was great. He had no point and had absolutely no take on the situation and nothing to offer his readers except recycled metaphors and a shitload of questions that no one wants to answer. Well done phil. :clap:

[fkornre]

Actually, I cancelled days ago and my radios still work.

im hearing this from many people here...i remember when i cancelled my account almost 7 months ago they told me my radio would still work through the end of the billing cycle...im guessing that might be happening with most of the people who are cancelling...

[Holeshot]

I cant e-mail them ... keeps coming back as " returned mail"

[GLENN_THE_TOOL]

I cant e-mail them ... keeps coming back as " returned mail"

he's either getting slammed with emails or he's another asslickcuntbag who likes to voice his opinion yet doesn't want to hear anyone else's because in his mind he's right and everybody with an opposing opinion is wrong.

[fkornre]

I cant e-mail them ... keeps coming back as " returned mail"
who? the post or xm?

[kingofdmv]

Phil is just a dried up, old and bitter douche who apparently forgot how to have fun about 30 years ago. I haven't seen his column in the Post in a few weeks so I was kind of hoping he was dead. Phil Mushnick is the Mancow of newspaper columnists.

[fkornre]

Phil Mushnick is the Mancow of newspaper columnists.
QFT!!!

[Barbwire Mike]

Mushnick and Bozell? They finally stopped being horrified at pro wrestling long enough to listen to the radio?

E: Eh, I linked the Bozell hit piece so may as well continue the trend:

"Phil Mushnick Sucks Off Young Boys" ... THAT'S Inflammatory! (http://www.lethalwrestling.com/opinions/news_content.php?fileName=1081)

[Wally1985]

phil mushnick is just an old fucko that hates everything

[Holeshot]

who? the post or xm?

The Post ...

[Holeshot]

Phil is just a dried up, old and bitter douche who apparently forgot how to have fun about 30 years ago. I haven't seen his column in the Post in a few weeks so I was kind of hoping he was dead. Phil Mushnick is the Mancow of newspaper columnists.

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[fkornre]

The Post ...
general: letters@nypost.com
phil: phil.mushnick@nypost.com

[OldGravyLeg]

Why am I not surprised that everybody's favorite decency dufus, Phil Mushnick decided to pop his head out of the sand to get his 2 cents in.

I remember way back in the early nineties when he decided to attack poor John Madden for allowing EA to introduce clothesline tackles into the Madden NFL game series. How much of a goody-goody crybaby can you possibly be??

What a maroon!

[MAVRIC305]

Phil who?

PHIL MUSHCOCK!

I fucking hate him! Always have! He is a bitter little bitch who complains and writes negative shit about everyone. He is a dumb cock. If anyone started attacking his job just for being a negative Nelly I am sure he'd be singing a different tune. COCK!

[OAPartyCrock]

Is that a news piece or an op/ed?

If it's news then I'm sorry for the Post because that would be a terribly written article with no facts aside from people speak dirty on the radio.

The post is trash anyway. if it wasn't for page 6 then paper would be belly up.

In the Posts defense, probably Op/Ed.
But I wonder if Phil Mushnik woul have felt the same way if it were about Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno.

[murphyslaw]

I'm really friggin tired of people getting the "low brow humor" bandwagon. Not only are others telling us what we can listen to when we pay for it but they are trying to dictate what all of us find funny....Anyone else see Demolition Man in our future? Only question is who will be Sylvester Stallone?:mad4:

[fkornre]

Only question is who will be Sylvester Stallone?:mad4:
club soda kenny...lol

[patbattlefield]

Someone needs to cancel him.

[Hydrosludge]

I object to the fact that he suggested pit bull fighting on cable. There are laws against that.

The rest of it sounded pretty good.

[ls1speedfreak]

Ugh,
Consider this, if you do email the post make sure that you make it clear that you don't read this dribble straight from the paper. I wouldn't want them thinking that this useless dribble is increasing their circulation (for any reason).
I think we are strong enough to start going all-out on someone like this to get this tool fired, if only we knew how.... Pests need Tyler Durden.

[ginaf20697]

I thought this bitter old queen only covered sports? I guess he's shown that if he can be totally ignorant in sports he's qualified to be totally ignorant in other things.

[vaglvr]

"Or might it be that wrong is wrong and bad is bad, thus there really is no better place for it?"

This line is what everyone of these asshole's arguments boil down to. Could have saved a page and just wrote this and it would have had the exact same effect. I don't like it so it should be gone. Wow brilliant.

[Fr. Dougal]

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phil mushnick sounds a bitter, dontcha think?

When he writes about tv or radio, we laugh at his crap when we read it in the newsroom. Sounds like a failed TV guy. Someone who couldn't hack it in the TV news biz, so he writes about it.

[Bobobie]

Where do you get conservative out of that article? This whole isssue is driven by easily offended liberals.

This comes as no surprise - NY Post has become a conservative rag ever since it was taken over by Rupert Murdoch and his media empire (see Fox News and their wealth of attention to the "controversy").
If anyone needs proof that this is politically motivated, look no further than the NY Post's response to the Iraq Study Group's final report and the "Surrender Monkeys" headline from last fall.

It's sad that one of the oldest newspapers in the country has become so bad. Paul Mushnick should take a moment and read his own paper, because it is one step away from being displayed next to the National Enquirer.

[Bobobie]

Why would he review things he obviously has no interest in? A cock in my mouth or ass disgusts me, therefore I don't review gay porn. My reviews are always going to be negative, with lots of disgusted puke noises and ewwws and yuck!!!

[loveflower]

Well we all know how this whole situation could have been avoided....a hole could have saved O&A. She would have been all outraged at Homeless Charlie's comments and calmed everybody down. Then the Boys would not be where they are now...


FFFFRRRAAANNNKKKUUUS!

[Mook_Dawg]

Mushnick has always been a prick. I can't believe that he still has a job. This guy has been excessively bitter for years - how is he not dead yet?

[Hobo_Cum]

its pathetic that an organization calling itself a "News Outlet" can allow such self-aggrandizing bullshit as this stupid mushnick-mouthed cunt is spewing.

the Post (although its already considered a tabloid by most people) should be fucking ashamed...

[OAPartyCrock]

Where do you get conservative out of that article? This whole isssue is driven by easily offended liberals.

I dont think so in this case.
It seems more because of who it was about rather than the content.
And you have to admit the post is mostly conservative propaganda.
It's kinda like the village voice for right wingers.

[bluemoon]

Phil was prob. a xm sub and they made a fat joke that may have hit a bit to close to home. (perhaps he has a larger than life wife.) now hes pissed and needs to write a dumb article about them.
fatty-phil-fatty

[JMCC]

NY Post is garbage, i don't read it and neither should you.

[Gyp]

Did he actually say "Yeah, that's the ticket!" Saturday Night Live called. It wants its 20 year old catchphrase back.