Article: Polish American Congress Names Pittsburgh Sportscaster "Authentic Bigot"


Polish-American Journal
06-01-2000
Polish American Congress Names Pittsburgh Sportscaster "Authentic Bigot"

"All I am is a guy with a big mouth and a microphone." That's the way Mark
Madden, a radio sports show host on Pittsburgh's WEAE, described himself in
an interview with a local newspaper.

Madden's mouth irritated Pittsburgh's Polish American community when he
used it to make an ethnic insult on one of his shows. So much so that it
won him the "Authentic Bigot" award from the Anti-Bigotry Committee of the
Polish American Congress in New York. Frustrated by the way WEAE dismissed
their protests, the local Polish Americans felt they needed their national
organization to step in and deal with ...

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