Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Opie and Anthony at it again...

Mayor Thomas Menino is outraged over a WBCN [website] radio show set to air tomorrow - the day the Hub conducts its annual homeless census - in which homeless men were taken to a New Jersey mall and set loose on a shopping spree to shock the suburban crowds.
“Some of them might be recovering alcoholics coming back from addiction and recovery, and they’re doing this for ratings? For a cheap dollar?” Menino said.
Radio shock jocks Opie & Anthony taped the show yesterday at Short Hills Mall in New Jersey, and it will air in Boston today. This is the third year the radio duo has hosted the “Homeless Shopping Spree,” where they round up homeless people and bus them to a mall and arm them with gift cards.
Though the show does not take place in Boston, Menino said he’s nonetheless angry that it is aired here on the day that scores of volunteerstravel across the city to calculate the number of Hub homeless.
“That radio station and the personalities think this is good programming,” he said. “It’s bad programming. I don’t care if it’s in Timbukto. It shouldn’t be on the air.”
Phone calls to the Opie & Anthony Show programming director at his office were not returned.

See the video HERE
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