{"id":431,"date":"2010-04-14T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/dale-hansen-mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves.html"},"modified":"2010-04-14T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T13:50:59","slug":"dale-hansen-mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/dale-hansen-mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves.html","title":{"rendered":"Dale Hansen, mad prophet of the airwaves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody secretly records a drunken Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys owner, talking trash about Bill Parcells and others in a bar, and WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas, runs it as a story. This royally cheesed off WFAA&#8217;s veteran sports anchor Dale Hansen, who thought it a serious breach of journalistic ethics. Hansen went on the air last night and let station management &#8212; his bosses, that is &#8212; have it with both barrels. 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