December 26, 1997
This is an open letter to all of your readers who are also fans of the Lynn Cullen show, recently cancelled by WTAE in its questionable opinion that everybody in Pittsburgh wants to talk about Sports. (God Help Us !!!)
Many years ago, Rege Cordic, Pittsburgh’s most famous radio personality of the 20th Century, decided to leave Pittsburgh after many, many years as THE morning WAKE UP man. I personally know many people who have refused to turn their radio on in the morning ever since then – 1950-1955. The brave souls who did tune in very quickly tuned out, as every idiot with a morning show was doing their best to imitate the sorely missed Cordic. It was like trying to imitate God. To this day, all Pittsburgh morning Wake Up “comics” try to imitate Cordic. But, as the Bible says, “God is not mocked.” Since then, the management morons at KDKA fired Paul Long because he dared to disagree with the mental midget who was the news director at the time. When Paul left, he took his audience and his weatherman, Joe DeNardo, with him.
Since then, other talented people have come and gone. But the sun rises every day, the earth turns, the Democrats screw up the city of Pittsburgh and life goes on as it has since the days of old Fort Pitt at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela.
As Lynn Cullen said, “No one can shut me up.” Take heart, you Cullen fans. Like a bad penny, she’ll keep turning up . . . despite corporate arrogance and juvenile management interns who think they can force-feed their audience the kind of claptrap their market research cretins sell them.
JACK O’NEIL
Sewickley