…yeah, it is, especially when it’s accompanied by the delusion that Opie and Anthony some kind of nationally well known personalities. Mention O&A to a random person on the street and they most likely will say, “Who? who??”… a phrase often repeated by Anthony.

It’s one thing to like the show, it’s another thing to pretend that it has anything but a very small (albeit very loyal) mostly regional following. Let’s face facts, they couldn’t attract much of an audience on terrestrial radio even with Stern gone from that medium. Imagine how much more quickly they would have failed on terrestrial radio had Stern still been there.

…enjoy your aneurysm – don’t blink!

Your widow can sue Howie afterwards – Hoo hoo!

And stop trying to justify the moron who wrote this article. An article “exposing” the fact that some idiot whose 5 second sound byte made it into the mix of a few other 5 second sound bytes was some big misrepresentation that warrants an in depth exploration and additional back-story beyond the 5 seconds of what the random unidentified guy was shown saying?

The headline for this story should have been, “Five second sound byte of one of the several unidentified people seen in CNBC report didn’t fully explore his complete and extensive opinions about the iPhone…. outraged media watchdogs demand two minutes minimum of airtime be devoted to each moron interviewed on the street about why they showed up at the Apple store on the first day a phone went on sale”

As I said, the only thing exposed here was that some embarrassment to the reporting profession tried to create a story where none existed for the sole purpose of trying to promote his favorite radio show that almost nobody listens to or knows about.

And stop trying to justify the moron who wrote this article. An article “exposing” the fact that some idiot whose 5 second sound byte made it into the mix of a few other 5 second sound bytes was some big misrepresentation that warrants an in depth exploration and additional back-story beyond the 5 seconds of what the random unidentified guy was shown saying?

The headline for this story should have been, “Five second sound byte of one of the several unidentified people seen in CNBC report didn’t fully explore his complete and extensive opinions about the iPhone…. outraged media watchdogs demand two minutes minimum of airtime be devoted to each moron interviewed on the street about why they showed up at the Apple store on the first day a phone went on sale”

As I said, the only thing exposed here was that some embarrassment to the reporting profession tried to create a story where none existed for the sole purpose of trying to promote his favorite radio show that almost nobody listens to or knows about.

I sure don’t question this CrunchGear article’s motive(s), as I have no problem with someone ‘reaching’ a bit to mention O&A for a change.

O&A being known or not known Nationally or otherwise, was not relevant to what I have observed from the media.

I have been witness to incidences when O&A are actually a part of the story/article being reported (and not some generic reference to DJs) and the reporter/’journalist’ either failed to mention them by name, or mentioned ’shock jocks’ only. Maybe they mentioned O&A and it was edited out (for time or space alotted, of course) before it aired/went to print.

It’s not to hard to see that if you take away fact that and overzealous O&A fan wanted to get them mentioned on his employer’s web site, there is no story to justify filing the article. CNBC didn’t include the full context of the sound byte they showed of some random unidentified goofball who uttered a positive statement to a reporter who was doing a puff-piece on the first day of sale for the new iphone? What a scandal!!! I’m shocked that all the media watchdog groups didn’t call CNBC out on this scandalous misrepresentation of the random goofball geek hanging out at the Apple store with all the other Apple lemmings who had to buy the new iphone on it’s first day out.

Let’s be honest here. The questionable journalism was the attempt by the moron who writes for Tech Crunch to manufacture a story for the purpose of mentioning O&A, not CNBC’s failure to give the full context and background details of every idiot who gave them a 5 second sound byte for a lightweight report that wasn’t much of a story to begin with.

I have actually read print articles and watched tv broadcasts where the writer (or reporter) has made every effort and gone out-of-their-way to NOT mention Opie & Anthony – these 2 never get a break when it comes to the media covering them or any publicity to help promote the show.

On the other hand, if there is a chance to mention Howie somehow in a radio-related story, it will be done.

It seems that the funniest thing about Opie and Anthony is them and their dopey fans pretending that they are some big national phenomenon. That funny often turns to pathetic such as when some not-too-bright blog “reporter” tries to perpetrate that fantasy by crow-baring the little known DJs into a headline of a laughable non-story that is targeted to an audience of readers, virtually all of whom have no idea who the people in the headline are.

Note to Nicholas Deleon…. try to make a name for yourself by writing real articles instead of trying to make a name for two DJs who have been struggling (and so far failed after more than 15 years) to make a national name for themselves.

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‘Only that’s now what he said at all.’

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‘Only that’s not what he said at all.’

from-

‘that AT&T service in New York is atrocious (switching from the BlackBerry to the iPhone because he’s “tired of all [his] calls going through”)

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that AT&T service in New York is atrocious (switching from the iPhone to the BlackBerry because he’s “tired of all [his] calls not going through”)

crinkle, crinkle

What can we expect next from crack “reporter” Nicholas Deleon? That Crazy Lenny of the “Crazy Lenny and Johnny Morning Zoo Crew Show” was misquoted in an article that ran in the Pittsburgh Prairie Gazette?

Your transparent and laughable attempt to promote the sad dwindling careers of the hosts of a radio show that most people have never heard of and has never been relevant on a national level is quite pathetic.