North can't even tell the truth when he's been proven to be wrong. At least Cassidy had the class to back down. North is a fool.


From today's Sun-Times:

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When it comes to hot air --no competition

September 5, 2008
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BY ROBERT FEDER Sun-Times Columnist

I don't care what Mike North, Pat Cassidy or my other friends in the media say. In this case, they're all wrong.

North and Cassidy, who both left morning jobs at CBS Radio stations in recent weeks, have turned up in other newspapers talking about "non-compete clauses" in their old contracts and how they've restricted their freedom to get back on the air.
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Mike North (left) and Pat Cassidy (right), who both left morning jobs at CBS Radio stations in recent weeks, have turned up in other newspapers talking about "non-compete clauses" in their old contracts.
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In North's case, he told anyone who'd listen that his non-compete clause is keeping him off the airwaves until January. Cassidy said his non-compete delayed his start on Citadel Broadcasting news/talk WLS-AM (890).

Here's the fact: Broadcasters in Illinois haven't been subject to non-compete clauses since Jan. 1, 2002. That's when a law went into effect outlawing any such restrictions, thanks largely to the efforts of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

While former employers may retain a right to match other offers for a specified period of time -- a highly unlikely scenario in either North's or Cassidy's case -- talent can't be kept off the air after their contracts expire.

Cassidy later acknowledged that he should have phrased his situation differently.

But North still isn't backing down. "The law sounds nice, but the problem is with GMs [general managers] who are too afraid," he said. "They all have families to feed and just don't want to risk getting sued" by CBS.

What the fuck is North talking about?

No GM cares about you. Nobody is gonna sue the Score's GM if you get a job. Nobody, at the Score, cares what you do Pappy.

My God, is he a fuckin' idiot.

I think he is saying that the GM of a station who might hire him is scared they'd get sued by the Score. That is total bullshit given the law that Feder cites and the fact that the Score could always meet or beat the offer, which they probably wouldn't do down to about $90K which is probably what they pay Larry. At that point it is a toss-up. In any event the non-compete BS is just that, a load of crap, and the career-suicidist, North, keeps trying to sell it.

I'm willing to bet that between dontfademe and the wildfire webcast his total take next month will be $0 or less as dontfademe will be losing money and Melman may cover the webcast costs and throw him a bone for Jen. That is a far cry from the $60K per month he turned his nose up at and the $125K per month he was bringing home last year...ouch!

Thanks to Feder for unmasking this clown one more time.

More BS from Mike North? Can it be? Gosh his hireability is dropping rapidly!

And KUDOS OF THE DAY to Feder. He kissed North's ass for years and now he finally exposed him. He's falling faster than anyone I've ever seen.

Isnt it fun?

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So let's recap the last few months in Mike North's world:

"I gots da goods on Teddy G. He sent me dis terrible e-mail an' I knows it's him cuz it's got his e-mail address on it. He'll be fired when I puts dis on my website."

"I gots many, many major job offers. Announcement shortly."

"I gots dis great website wit gamblin' tips. Look, even da great Hub Arkush is on my panel of experts."

"Da only reason I don't gots a job in radio yet is dat non-compete clause in my contract."

"OK, dere's not really a non-compete clause, but da only reason I don't gots a job yet is cuz da GM's is scared dat dey might be sued anyways."

"I has a vision for where dat new ting called da Innernet is heading and I will be part of it wit dis great new web show."

And I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface here. There have been so many lies I can't keep track of them.
Mike, I wouldn't believe you if you told me the Pope was Catholic (or would that be your alter-ego, the bookie priest, telling me that?). You are a true idiot.

For some reason, when I read PC's board impersonation of Pappy above, the voice in my head was that of Ali G rather than that of Pappy. Weird.

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I was hearing Pappy perfectly but now that you mention it I can't read it without doing it in Ali G's voice. Boooyakesha!

MOst of us have always thought the North machine was a joke. The biggest fools in all of this was CBS management for creating this monster. He was an entertaining clown to start that had people talking. I never took him seriously because it soon appeared to me that he was just an idiot that just talked loud without basis and never prepared. His act fooled the geniuses at CBS and they made him a STAR. In his eyes anyway. As much as I hate Mike North, CBS cannot be blameless in this implosion. This is their monster. And he is falling closer to ROCK BOTTOM every single day. I guess they finally made the right move better late than never. He's proving them right more and more with each passing day. He's undeniably an embarrassment.

This just confirms that he is lying sack of crap. Now he has told so many, he cant keep them straight, nice to see someone in the media call him out on this.

If you thought North was full of crap in Feder's column today, he's supposed to be on "Chicago Tonight" on WTTW 11 come 7 or 7:30p. If he's not on Joel Weisman's panel at 7, he'll definitely be John Callaway's guest on "The Friday Night Show" right afterwards.

Standing O for Robert Feder!

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