Talk:Bob Fass

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This is about as UNwikipedia as an article can get. Pure hagiography. And the endless, unnecessary details. You'd think Fass was as important as Karl Marx or Isaac Newton. He's a great broadcaster, but 500 words should be MORE than enough. And losing the asskissing narrative style would also help.

This entry was definitely written by an unabashed admirer of this largely unsung hero. However, I feel that it covers the history and the facts, along with being a shout out to an innovator in the radio medium. If you have further comments and wish to communicate with the author of this piece, please send correspondence to ophelia@angel.net

Actually, what I think I'll do, when I have the time, is chop the hell out of it so that it meets Wiki standards for an encyclopedia entry on a person of minor note. It's okay that you worship Fass, but you need to get an independent web site to pay him homage and record his every act. (Or maybe just write a biography of him and publish it.) This is Wikipedia, not your homepage. Wiki has rules and standards.

[edit] however...

i agree that the article is long and overly detailed (and i haven't finsished reading the whole thing yet). there are too many similar blow by blow accounts of how particular folks with recognizable names wound up on the air.

however...

what i haven't found so far is mention of fass's experiments with live on-air dicussions involving multiple callers. before conference calls were common and multiway dicussions amoung folks who couldn't see each other were pretty unusual and weird, fass would somehow manage to moderate dicussions among a dozen callers without folks interupting each other, talking over each other, etc. today it's no big deal, but then it was a bit magical.

[IIRC wbai was an innovator in call-in programming more generally and needed to engineer gear from scratch to what they did.]

putting aside fass's other work for the moment, i see radio unnameable as significant in four ways:

-- it brought notable people to the airways.

-- it reported on notable events.

-- it created a sense of community.

-- most importantly perhaps, it was formally innovative.

maybe building out from themes like this would help structure and tighten up the article. -ef —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.38.203.239 (talk) 21:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC).