Monthly Archives: November 2008

Did Jay Severin actually change his mind about something?

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 20, 2008
In Bay Windows, “New England’s Largest GLBT Newspaper,” Sue O’Connell writes that Jay Severin now supports – or at least does not oppose — “what he used to call ‘homosexual marriage’.” (Actually, Sue, he used to call it “ho-ho-homosexual marriage.”) You can hear Jay’s actual words here. (For laughs, check out the “transcript” to the [...]
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Jay-talk at radio-info.com

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 14, 2008
Jay’s post-election rants kicked off a discussion in the Boston market forum on radio-info.com. (Registration required if you want to add your own thoughts to that conversation.)
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Archives: More on Jay Severin from Adam Reilly at the Boston Phoenix

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 13, 2008
Now that I’ve got a blog fully devoted to Jay Severin, I have the liberty to add to the Severin “archives,” with choice selections of past observations by and about Jay. Here’s one from last month.
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Jay Severin lies about Obama’s “civilian police force”

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 13, 2008
On Friday, November 9, Jay Severin answered the questions asked at President-elect Obama’s press conference as if Jay were saying what Obama really thought. About 5 minutes into his monologue, Jay included the following (again, speaking as if he were Barack Obama): I have already said on my web site that I’m going to establish [...]
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Is Jay Severin right to fear fairness?

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 13, 2008
Jay Severin has spent a lot of airtime recently talking about the potential end of his career as a result of the “Fairness Doctrine.” This article from the Boston Phoenix provides a more reasoned analysis of the issue.
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Is this new blog already irrelevant?

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 10, 2008
An op-ed in the Boston Globe last week began with “One more note on the significance of the presidential election of 2008: It’s the first one in more than 30 years on which talk radio had no major impact.” The authors suggest that talk radio’s influence is on the decline because: Radio, like print media, [...]
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Well said, Jeremy McKeen

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 7, 2008
Jerry has a nice open letter to Jay Severin. When I hear you whining and moaning about free speech and the end of talk radio and your family not being able to eat I smirk because when you rally around Question 1 and want people to vote to cut services like my job – a [...]
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Jay’s electoral college prediction looking worse and worse

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 7, 2008
Jay Severin was actually bragging on Wednesday afternoon about how close his guess of 340 electoral votes for Barack Obama had been. He seemed to think his prediction was the closest of any TV or radio pundit. I corrected him on the air, pointing out that Eleanor Clift, among others, had guessed 349 – which [...]
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Jay talk at Radio-Info

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 7, 2008
Check out the predominantly anti-Jay thread at radio-info.com: Jay Severin 96.9 FM  DanS says “I’m just curious to see if anyone else finds Severin as outrageous/insulting as I do???” The answer is yes, Dan.
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Severin Watch is live!

By DavidFromBrighton | Published: November 7, 2008
I’ve been listening to that [insert derogatory noun that he would deny being here] Jay Severin, the talk show host on WTKK (96.9 FM, Boston) since 2000. Recently I started blogging about his most absurd remarks. Today I decided that I should no longer pollute my personal blog with my comments about him, so I [...]
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