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Michael Savage off KFBX 970 AM in Fairbanks for anti-Inuit remarks

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Black_Shire

Hello All,

On Thursday, June 14th, Michael Savage commented angrily about the killing of the 130 year old whale by an Inuit whaling group. The next day, his show was yanked from its afternoon slot on KFBX 970 AM in Fairbanks, replaced by the Laura Ingraham Show (which normally airs on KFBX in the evenings--the Jerry Doyle Show was aired during her normal time slot). A pre-recorded announcement stated that the station had suspended Michael Savage's show for his making "insensitive remarks about the native lifestyle" and that he might return if he made a formal apology.

I am part native, and I am angry that the station did this. Over the years, Michael Savage has made insensitive remarks about all racial, social, religious, and political groups at one time or another on his show. In this case he was absolutely correct, as there is simply no need in this modern age for anyone to hunt whales for food. The traditional native way is to hunt only for what you need (food, skins, bone for tools, etc.), and there is no longer any need to hunt whales for these things.

The radio station's action was nothing more than a cheap attempt at "kissing posterior" to curry favor among native listeners, and I will protest this action to the station management.


-- Black Shire
 
Black shire said; "The radio station's action was nothing more than a cheap attempt at "kissing posterior" to , and I will protest this action to the station management."

Do you know this for certain?

Maybe there are sensitive SPONSORS or politicians who could disfavor the licencee in some way. Maybe the station manager should go on air with Michael and discuss this.

Anyway what's wrong with "currying favor among native listeners?" It's a LOCAL station standing up for the natives. That's a GOOD thing, right? Ifthey did NOTHING, blackk might say, "damn satellite program and the local station didn't do ANYTHING to stand up for the locals.

Lots of people on these forums CRAB and KVETCH about "satellite delivered programs. Here is a LOCAL STATION responding to someone ON THEIR OWN AIR - and it's STILL NO GOOD.
 
hammondo said:
Black shire said; "The radio station's action was nothing more than a cheap attempt at "kissing posterior" to , and I will protest this action to the station management."

Do you know this for certain?

Maybe there are sensitive SPONSORS or politicians who could disfavor the licencee in some way. Maybe the station manager should go on air with Michael and discuss this.

Anyway what's wrong with "currying favor among native listeners?" It's a LOCAL station standing up for the natives. That's a GOOD thing, right? Ifthey did NOTHING, blackk might say, "damn satellite program and the local station didn't do ANYTHING to stand up for the locals.

Lots of people on these forums CRAB and KVETCH about "satellite delivered programs. Here is a LOCAL STATION responding to someone ON THEIR OWN AIR - and it's STILL NO GOOD.
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If I don't like a certain radio program (for whatever reason--political, moral, artistic, etc.), I don't demand that the radio station should take it off the air--I just don't listen to it. If enough people feel the same way and don't listen to the program, its ratings will fall and the station will drop it in due course.

What I object to is the station management presuming to judge *for* me what I should find sufficiently offensive to cease listening to it. I will make that decision for myself and enforce it using my radio's tuner knob and ON/OFF switch.

The natives here are a protected class, politically speaking. If a white person comments on the social ills of the native population (the high rates of alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, and juvenile delinquency), s/he will very often be branded a racist.


-- Black Shire
 
Black-Shire
Thanks for the clear explanation. It almost sounds like the Alaskan natives do not wish to have happen to them what happened to the American Indians in the lower 48.
 
hammondo said:
Black-Shire
Thanks for the clear explanation. It almost sounds like the Alaskan natives do not wish to have happen to them what happened to the American Indians in the lower 48.
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It's a totally different situation up here. There are, thankfully, no reservations here, and the tribes (through their native corporations) take in enormous quantities of money from oil revenues from native lands. The social problems, ironically, largely stem from their having suddenly become rich (as tribes rather than as individuals). Like many people in the Persian Gulf oil-exporting nations, many of the natives have lost their drive and initiative--sadly, that comes easily when one's living and health care are heavily subsidized or free. The social changes are not unlike what happens to poor and middle-class people who win lotteries.


-- Black Shire
 
One slight correction- there is ONE Indian reservation in the state of Alaska- on Annette Island (Metlakatla) 15 miles south of Ketchikan.
 
AZJoe said:
One slight correction- there is ONE Indian reservation in the state of Alaska- on Annette Island (Metlakatla) 15 miles south of Ketchikan.
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Was it created at the request of the tribe or imposed on them by the (then) Alaska territorial government or the federal government? Even today there is movement on the part of one or more tribes to create at least semi-autonomous, native-ruled regions (self-imposed reservations, one could say) in northern Alaska.


-- Black Shire
 
Congress declared Annette Island a federal Indian reservation in 1891. Residents built a church, a school, a sawmill and a cannery, and constructed homes in an orderly grid pattern. Duncan continued to inspire and lead his followers until his death in 1918. In 1927, the community built a hydroelectric plant. During World War II, the U.S. Army constructed a large air base a few miles from town, which was later used for commercial amphibian flights to Ketchikan. The U.S. Coast Guard also maintained a base on the Island until 1976. The Annette Island Reserve remains the only federal reservation for indigenous peoples in Alaska.
 
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