Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: Fass remembers Post; spirit of Big Bird helps Kerger travel
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Also: CPB’s Inspector General is one of 47 IGs protesting closed federal records.
Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: Steve Post and the Enema Lady; Ira Glass and Shakespeare
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And NPR’s ombudsman takes to Reddit.
People
Steve Post, iconoclastic wit at WNYC and WBAI, dies at 70
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Post joined in WBAI’s freeform heyday before hosting Morning Music and The No Show at WNYC.
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“Steve was my hero”: a remembrance of a radio rebel
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Steve Post, legendary New York radio personality for more than 50 years, died Sunday. He was 70 years old. Steve was the acerbic host of Morning Music, heard on WNYC-FM for 25 years. Every morning Steve read his version of the news. When Mayor Ed Koch had a stroke, his doctors announced that he had “the brain of a 12-year-old.” Ever after Steve referred to His Honor as “him with the 12-year-old brain.”
Weather reports were called “the weather lies.” Steve delivered news of leaks from nuclear reactors, always ending with the line, “No significant amount of radiation was released,” whether in the wire copy or not, read absolutely straight with an incredulous voice.