As any long time fan of Leslie Fram knows, her husband's temper and willingness to confront people with whom he disagrees is legendary. Yesterday, readers of Radio Talk got a glimpse, albeit a brief one, of Lanny West's famous temper. Rodney Ho published a long email written by West taking exception to Ho's Sunday article on 99X. A few hours later, Ho removed the post containing the email as a courtesy. I have the email here.
While most of the email consists of West insulting Ho, there are a couple of items of note: For one, Lanny claims to "manage talent to have $5 million liquid assest[sic] portfolio." Presumably that talent is Leslie Fram.
The other interesting thing is the degree to which the antics of The Buzz's Whip and Chris Williams have succeeded in getting under Lanny's skin. As one who has heard Howard Stern pray for his enemy's prostate cancer to spread, I've always thought that Whip and Chris' antics are pretty benign, abeit juvenile. Welcome to morning radio.
While Rodney Ho doesn't need me to defend him, I will say that most of Lanny's taunts say more about West than they do about Ho: "Wise up, make yourself look a bit more intelligent...Your lack of radio knowledge is really beginning to bore what readers you do have left." From my perspective, ignoring a trend that has been happening since 2001 doesn't constitute intelligence or a knowledge of "how Atlanta radio really works."
