re: WOW .... 790 The Zone in Atlanta making fun of Gleason

I'm indifferent as to whether or not they should have been canned. I know people keep yelling about South Park could get away with it, well that's because they have the numbers and advertisers know what they're getting when they buy ad time associated with that show. I doubt these guy's sponsors were too thrilled to be associated with the kind of people making fun of a guy that's dying of a horrible disease. Sports Talk is advertiser driven, these guys should have been smarter. From what I've gathered from the Atlanta folks in this thread, this show didn't have the following to get away with that kind of stunt