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Thank You For Taking My Slack

Jesse Walker | 8.15.2003 2:27 AM


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.

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