NEW: DePetro AP Award Blasted by For Our Daughters Chair
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Maureen Martin, Chair of the "For Our Daughters" effort to oust John DePetro, has criticized the selection of the talk show host for an Associated Press award.
"I'd be curious for someone to explain the criteria for receiving this award. If misogyny and dehumanizing women is on the list, then I would agree that they found their man," said Martin.
De Petro's win in the Talk Show Division "B" Radio category is one of over 45 AP awards that were announced this week for Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
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"It is great to win best talk show, because it is so competitive, I work really hard on my show, and it is rewarding to be recognized for it. My philosophy is simple. I like to do an entertaining show on current events, with conflict. The listeners enjoy my sense of humor and the caller interaction is tremendous," said DePetro, who noted he last won an AP award in 2008.
DePetro continued, "You always have critics regardless of what you say or do, so thin skinned politicians and the unions upset over my criticism was par for the course. The listeners ( the people) love my radio show and that is all that really matters."
Last month, the For Our Daughter campaign protested two show sponsors, Place Jewelers and The Remington House, in an ongoing effort to oust DePetro after the host labeled a group of women assembled outside a fundraiser for RI General Treasurer Gina Raimondo as “w-h-o-r-e-s" in a radio broadcast last September.
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