Pat Egan, the white producer of the afternoon drive show of Mike Missanelli at Greater Media's WPEN-FM "The Fanatic" (as in Phillies Phanatic, the mascot), had been pulling one over on MIssanelli for over a year by pretending to be a black caller named "Dwayne from Swedesboro" and pretty much perpetuating every ghetto stereotype imaginable. Egan was caught last week after Missanelli's afternoon drive competition on CBS-owned WIP-FM tweeted about it, calling it a hoax, and a local representative of Black Lives Matter called for his head, and he was suspended for three days along with Missanelli's sidekick and the station program director:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/3-suspended-at-975-The-Fanatic-for-their-roles-in-creating-a-fake-black-caller.html Missanelli maintains that he was not aware that the caller wasn't real--and the guy who called WPEN out at WIP-FM got fired last week just after he revealed everything about the hoax. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
