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...early next year, one certainty is that Goode's sparkling reputation has been badly tarnished by the tragic events on Osage Avenue. About 400,000 Philadelphians watched the hearings daily on public television and many obviously did not like what they saw. A poll by the local CBS affiliate, WCAU, showed that the 64% approval rating the mayor received last spring for his handling of the Move incident fell twelve points just during the hearings. In municipal elections last week, Ronald D. Castille became the first Republican in 16 years to win the race for district attorney, trouncing Goode...
...WCAU, usually a quality station, has stooped to the lowest levels by giving Rizzo access to the airwaves. While talk radio is quickly becoming a legitimate and potent political force, Rizzo's tough talk and thinly disguised bigotry adds nearly nothing to the city's political dialogue. The little it does add convincingly demonstrates why Rizzo lost the election to Goode, who was widely perceived as ineffective and incompetent...
...course, even though Rizzo is a demagogic liberal basher, he deserves his freedom of speech. And WCAU, as a business, can do whatever it wants to bring the station what recently hired station manager Gregory Tantum termed a needed "higher profile...
...WCAU should recognize its professional repsonsibility to give the public programs of quality and should make Rizzo find another way to reach what he calls the "rowhouse people, the little people." Rizzo's show amounts to little more than a bully pulpit from which this incessant politician can launch another bid for the mayor's office and embarrass Philadelphia more...
...WCAU, enough already...