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Thank You For Taking My Slack

Jesse Walker | 8.15.2003 2:27 AM

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Last night "Bob Dobbs" prank-called Ted Koppel, live, to deliver a peculiar set of blackout instructions. In a refreshing change from other recent media pranks, Howard Stern was never invoked.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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