Or Robert Kennedy or Martin Luther King. A "Public Figure" does not have to be elected.
Robert Kennedy (Sr.) was a U.S. Senator from New York at the time he was assassinated, elected to that seat in 1964.
Your comment and the commentary piece are very troubling on many levels. Charlie Kirk had the audacity to express his faith and beliefs in the public domain which is a basic right in our constitution. He did not attack or hurt anybody.
There are definitely comments on places like Instagram celebrating Charlie Kirk's death though.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.The commentary was also an example of someone expressing their first amendment right. In fact people in radio are being fired over it:
Radio Producer Fired Over Charlie Kirk Post.
A Las Vegas radio producer has been dismissed after posting inflammatory remarks online following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The employee, identified as Bobby Machado, worked off-airwww.insideradio.com
"Your failure to differentiate a political assassination from crime and domestic abuse is astounding and deeply troubling. "
What people are being fired for is the celebration of the assassination of a person with differing beliefs. This is a degree of "freedom of speech" that most people on either side of the political spectrum condemn... not because it limits free speech but because it approves of and congratulates murderers.
Two-thirds of gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides. Were guns not available to persons intent on killing themselves, they would find other methods, ranging from drugs to driving off a bridge.
That is your opinion, and not one shared by enough Americans to get him elected, twice.
Ill-informed about what? I believe that your opinion of "well informed" depends on the news sources they use. MSNBC = Well Informed. Fox News = Ill informed.
Yet Limbaugh (finally we got to a radio subject) literally "saved AM radio" for several decades and was the most popular talk host on radio. Nobody was preventing a more progressive or liberal voice from succeeding; in fact, supported by the biggest station owners, there was an attempt to create a liberal talk network (it failed).
In your opinion. Mine is just the opposite.
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"Two-thirds of gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides. Were guns not available to persons intent on killing themselves, they would find other methods, ranging from drugs to driving off a bridge. "
This has nothing to do with radio. No comment."Two-thirds of gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides. Were guns not available to persons intent on killing themselves, they would find other methods, ranging from drugs to driving off a bridge. "
Readily available firearms make it easy and supposedly, painless and fast. The gun violence rate is likely far worse than even in the dictatorships and hell-holes you once worked in and wisely left.
"One thing is to state differences in opinion on topics such as border control. It is totally different to just decide anyone who does not agree with you is "damaged and corrupt".
Alright, maybe these folks will make the point:
This was only one of many such articles and commentaries.
Perhaps these people are biased as well:
"...Limbaugh (finally we got to a radio subject) literally "saved AM radio"...."
it would have been better if those facilities had gone dark, rather than the damage they contributed to.
"Liberal" talk failed on commercial radio due to two factors (IMO):
1) It used the right-wing model of focusing on the host and it's opinions. A more educated audience prefers the issues over diatribes. IOW: a bad fit for the room.
2) Frequent interruptions by commercials. this was bound to be damaging when NPR & PBS do all this so much better.
"In your opinion. Mine is just the opposite."
Here, i sincerely hope you are right. The alternative is a nightmare.
I yield to you. I'm done on this.
LCG/NYC
