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Protest Against Clear Channel "Hate Radio"

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mwebster

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Pickets go after Savage, O'Reilly, Bennett and Katz.
Indybay.org reports:
About 60 youth, media activists, and concerned community members staged a protest against “hate radio” yesterday in front of Clear Channel’s SF headquarters across from the Caltrain station.

The action was billed as the beginning of a campaign to revoke Clear Channel’s broadcast licenses for local “hate radio” stations, especially 910AM KNEW. Organizers played racist, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-human audio clips from Clear Channel personalities Michael Savage, Bill Bennett, Bill O’Reilly, and Jeff Katz.

”The Federal Communications Commission has a responsibility to regulate the airwaves in the public interest,” says Taishi Duchicela, organizer for the Youth Media Council. “KNEW violates the public interest by broadcasting inflammatory content that incites fear and violence. We’ve petitioned the FCC to revoke KNEW’s license because Clear Channel should not be given a license to hate.”

Following the rally, protesters carried a large “Petition to Deny Clear Channel licenses” signed by nearly 1,800 Bay Area residents to Clear Channel’s front door. The security guard refused to accept the petition for delivery.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1779120.php
 
> Pickets go after Savage, O'Reilly, Bennett and Katz.
> Indybay.org reports:
> About 60 youth, media activists, and concerned community
> members staged a protest against “hate radio” yesterday in
> front of Clear Channel’s SF headquarters across from the
> Caltrain station.
>
> The action was billed as the beginning of a campaign to
> revoke Clear Channel’s broadcast licenses for local “hate
> radio” stations, especially 910AM KNEW. Organizers played
> racist, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-human audio clips
> from Clear Channel personalities Michael Savage, Bill
> Bennett, Bill O’Reilly, and Jeff Katz.
>
> ”The Federal Communications Commission has a responsibility
> to regulate the airwaves in the public interest,” says
> Taishi Duchicela, organizer for the Youth Media Council.
> “KNEW violates the public interest by broadcasting
> inflammatory content that incites fear and violence. We’ve
> petitioned the FCC to revoke KNEW’s license because Clear
> Channel should not be given a license to hate.”
>
> Following the rally, protesters carried a large “Petition to
> Deny Clear Channel licenses” signed by nearly 1,800 Bay Area
> residents to Clear Channel’s front door. The security guard
> refused to accept the petition for delivery.
> http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1779120.php
>

I agree somewhat with the protestors. Sure, they are a bunch of hatemongers. But I agree with their right to be on the airwaves, and for CC to carry them.

I always felt that if you don't like something that's on the air, don't listen to it. Vote with your radio dial.<P ID="signature">______________
The Liberal Talk Radio Update</P>
 
> Pickets go after Savage, O'Reilly, Bennett and Katz.
> Indybay.org reports:
> About 60 youth, media activists, and concerned community
> members staged a protest against “hate radio” yesterday in
> front of Clear Channel’s SF headquarters across from the
> Caltrain station.
>
> The action was billed as the beginning of a campaign to
> revoke Clear Channel’s broadcast licenses for local “hate
> radio” stations, especially 910AM KNEW. Organizers played
> racist, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-human audio clips
> from Clear Channel personalities Michael Savage, Bill
> Bennett, Bill O’Reilly, and Jeff Katz.
>
> ”The Federal Communications Commission has a responsibility
> to regulate the airwaves in the public interest,” says
> Taishi Duchicela, organizer for the Youth Media Council.
> “KNEW violates the public interest by broadcasting
> inflammatory content that incites fear and violence. We’ve
> petitioned the FCC to revoke KNEW’s license because Clear
> Channel should not be given a license to hate.”
>
> Following the rally, protesters carried a large “Petition to
> Deny Clear Channel licenses” signed by nearly 1,800 Bay Area
> residents to Clear Channel’s front door. The security guard
> refused to accept the petition for delivery.
> http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1779120.php
>


And free speech goes RIGHT out the window......

Why do these peopel not have the same right to their thoguths as everyone else? I may not agree with them, but they have every right to talk just like I do.

Funny how somne of these groups are all for free speech as long as you agree with them.
 
Re: Protest Against Clear Channel

> Pickets go after Savage, O'Reilly, Bennett and Katz.
> Indybay.org reports:
> About 60 youth, media activists, and concerned community
> members staged a protest against “hate radio” yesterday in
> front of Clear Channel’s SF headquarters across from the
> Caltrain station.
>
> The action was billed as the beginning of a campaign to
> revoke Clear Channel’s broadcast licenses for local “hate
> radio” stations, especially 910AM KNEW. Organizers played
> racist, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-human audio clips
> from Clear Channel personalities Michael Savage, Bill
> Bennett, Bill O’Reilly, and Jeff Katz.
>
> ”The Federal Communications Commission has a responsibility
> to regulate the airwaves in the public interest,” says
> Taishi Duchicela, organizer for the Youth Media Council.
> “KNEW violates the public interest by broadcasting
> inflammatory content that incites fear and violence. We’ve
> petitioned the FCC to revoke KNEW’s license because Clear
> Channel should not be given a license to hate.”
>
> Following the rally, protesters carried a large “Petition to
> Deny Clear Channel licenses” signed by nearly 1,800 Bay Area
> residents to Clear Channel’s front door. The security guard
> refused to accept the petition for delivery.
> http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1779120.php
>

What in the hell is "anti-human"? I've seen that on a number of lefty kooky-nutty (that's EXACTLY what Indymedia is, folks) website and radio shows (WRUW at Case Western Reserve Univ. has such a show Tuesday evenings) that talk about that.

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Johnny Morgan on 10/31/05 09:03 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> What in the hell is "anti-human"? I've been that on a
> number of lefty kooky-nutty (that's EXACTLY what Indymedia
> is, folks) website and radio shows (WRUW at Case Western
> Reserve Univ. has such a show Tuesday evenings) that talk
> about that.
>
> What is "anti-human"?
>

I'd have thought "anti-human" would be a more apt term for the ultra-radical LW environmentalists who want to see humans die out and leave the planet to the critters than anything Savage or O'Reilly would support, but maybe that's just me.

And it's not a real word, anyway. Maybe they're going for "inhuman"???
 
CC didn't invent hate radio, but along with many others they have made a profit on it.

I see this as a positive sign that hate radio (leftie or rightie) is starting to die out. It will never completely disappear, but the style won't dominate our field as much.
 
Depends how you define "hate"..often it means any position that would disagree with a member of the left. I don't know that anyone is "hating", maybe if I call for all immigration to be legal I "hate" Mexicans, I don't know.

A bunch of lefties protesting righties doesn't mean that conservative talk radio is dying.
 
> CC didn't invent hate radio, but along with many others they
> have made a profit on it.
>
> I see this as a positive sign that hate radio (leftie or
> rightie) is starting to die out. It will never completely
> disappear, but the style won't dominate our field as much.

It never was around to disappear. What KNEW does is entertainment; it's an act, a show. Truly racist and inhuman commentary is left to Part 15 networks and underground pirate stations. Anti-Semites like Dr. Pearce have long paid up to $1,000 for a HALF HOUR to air their show, and most stations still won't take it. Wonder why.

Of course, it wouldn't be "anti-human" to have entire stations speaking about "La Raza" and taking back "Aztlan" from the evil whites, now would it? This scares me not because these kooks will accomplish anything, but because I have a feeling that part of the libtalk evolution is catering to these nuts rather than mainstream liberals, which will kill the format.
 
Air America should go, too :)

Well then have them pull the licenses of the Air America stations CC
has; there's "hate" on both sides...though as far as I can remember,
conservative talkers didn't suggest that Clinton should be assasinated,
as the likes of Randi Rhodes has w/ Bush.

Katz was fired from an earlier job in which he suggested Taco Bell
give coupons to people who run over Mexicans; he turned up on WRKO
and mentioned this. Am conservative but not into Savage myself.


>
 
> CC didn't invent hate radio, but along with many others they
> have made a profit on it.

If all I had to listen to was Al Franken and his bunch, I'd "hate radio",
too :)
 
Yes!

Yeah, I'm not into Howard Stern but he has a right to be on the air, as do
Savage, Franken, Limbaugh, Rhodes, etc.

> I agree somewhat with the protestors. Sure, they are a
> bunch of hatemongers. But I agree with their right to be on
> the airwaves, and for CC to carry them.
>
> I always felt that if you don't like something that's on the
> air, don't listen to it. Vote with your radio dial.
>
 
> anti-human audio clips from Clear Channel personalities Michael Savage

I know what you mean. The way he talks about his dog Teddy he sounds more like a liberal.<P ID="signature">______________
• K5ZN</P>
 
> I always felt that if you don't like something that's on the
> air, don't listen to it. Vote with your radio dial.
>
You're absolutely right--but the protest itself could be looked at as a referendum for programming they DO want to hear as well, something Clear Channel may or may not be serving the needs of. <P ID="signature">______________
"Not fixing [New Orleans'] levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more."
--Wynton Marsalis
</P>
 
> Yes!
>
> Yeah, I'm not into Howard Stern but he has a right to be on
> the air, as do
> Savage, Franken, Limbaugh, Rhodes, etc.

Airing your greviances on a nationally syndicated radio show is NOT a right...it's a privilege, especially given public airwaves. One that most of the extreme talkers take advantage of.
<P ID="signature">______________
"Not fixing [New Orleans'] levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more."
--Wynton Marsalis
</P>
 
> Not to mention that of the four mentioned, only one is an
> employee of Clear Channel.
>

But their shows could easily be cleared on Clear Channel-owned stations in the area, making that a somewhat mute point. <P ID="signature">______________
"Not fixing [New Orleans'] levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more."
--Wynton Marsalis
</P>
 
The individual hosts do not have a right to be on the air. The owner of the station, however, has a right to air the programming he wants to, which normally is that which is most profitable.
 
Lets be fair...

Let's take a look at the First Amendment to the United States Constitution:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."


So, if these nuts want to take away certain people's freedom of speech, then let's take away their right to assemble in front of the CC building. After all, what's fair for the goose is fair for the gander. I'd stand up for their right to protest the same way I stand up for the talk jocks to give their opinion, no matter how unpopular.


...oh, wait, "Goose" and "Gander" are not politically correct terms...perhaps some geese are really ganders, and some ganders are really geese. It would be just plain wrong to hate those ganders because they'd prefer to be geese...damned Republicans! We are entitled to an America where geese are free to be ganders, and ganders are free to be geese, and no member of the avian race should be hated because of their sexual preference!
 
> It never was around to disappear. What KNEW does is
> entertainment; it's an act, a show. Truly racist and inhuman
> commentary is left to Part 15 networks and underground
> pirate stations. Anti-Semites like Dr. Pearce have long paid
> up to $1,000 for a HALF HOUR to air their show, and most
> stations still won't take it. Wonder why.

Anti-semitism see this article on KGO news-talk 810 hosts John Rothmann and Ronn Owens:

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0.../story_id/22826/format/html/displaystory.html

Friday June 25, 2004

COVER STORY:
Hate talk

Jewish radio hosts attacked by anti-Israel voices

by dan pine
staff writer

"It’s 10:42 on a bee-yoo-tiful San Francisco morning and you’re on the air with Ronn Owens.And you’d better be on your toes, because Owens, the region’s top talk-radio host, is quick on his feet. Sound off on any current event, big or small, and the KGO/AM 810..."
 
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