revisionist history in radio?

[acroyear]

In neither the DC101 nor the Howard Stern pages on Wikipedia does it actually mention the joke that actually got him fired.  Stern's page doesn't mention his firing at all, and DC101's just says "disagreement with management", as it was fictionalized in Stern's movie and book (apparently, the authors used Stern's movie as an accurate history, which it isn't.).

The Air Florida Flight 90 page does mention Stern's joke, but not that it's what got him fired (which I agree with - it's not relevant there).

Update - sorry, meant to mention this was specifically looking up the references on Wikipedia, not the official websites of anything mentioned here.  'Cause yeah, it's not like the official pages would mention anything about that incident if they could avoid it.

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TASTELESS JOKES WARNING

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

On the air, he called up Air Florida's ticket line and asked how much would a one way ticket to the 14th street bridge cost.

Grease left my home town and WAPE (the "Big Ape") within a month to work for DC101 after that.

Now, which firing joke about Grease were you referring to? The "shoot 4 more and get the week off" (though that only got him suspended for a month), or the "no wonder they drag them behind trucks" (in reference to Lauryn Hill's god awful album)?

Re: TASTELESS JOKES WARNING

[kiltboy]

The Drag 'em behind trucks.