Clear Channel gags an antiwar conservative.

"Clear Channel Communications, the 800-pound gorilla of the radio business, owns an astonishing 1,200 stations in 50 states, including Newstalk 550 KFYI in Phoenix, where I do the afternoon program � or did until last summer. The principals of Clear Channel, a Texas-based company, have been substantial contributors to George W. Bush�s fortunes since before he became president. In fact, Texas billionaire Tom Hicks can be said to be the man who made Bush a millionaire when he purchased the future president�s baseball team, the Texas Rangers. Tom Hicks is now vice chairman of Clear Channel. Clear Channel stations were unusually visible during the war with what corporate flacks now call �pro-troop rallies.� In tone and substance, they were virtually indistinguishable from pro-Bush rallies. I�m sure the administration, which faced a host of regulatory issues affecting Clear Channel, was not displeased.


Criticism of Bush and his ever-shifting pretext for a first-strike war (what exactly was it we were pre-empting anyway?) has proved so serious a violation of Clear Channel�s cultural taboo that only a good contract has kept me from being fired outright. Roxanne Cordonier, a radio personality at Clear Channel�s WMYI 102.5 in Greenville, S.C., didn�t have it as good. Cordonier, who worked under the name Roxanne Walker, was the South Carolina Broadcasters Association�s 2002 Radio Personality of the Year. That apparently wasn�t enough for Clear Channel. Her lawsuit against the company alleges that she was belittled on the air and reprimanded by her station for opposing the invasion of Iraq. Then she was fired."

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Clear Channel SUCKS!

It's ZOMBIE radio.

Well, in truth, criticism is good and relevant to the times, but I would have to agree with ECK's comments and sentiments.

Some may claim that the issue is the "message" but I think it that an assessment of "Clear Channel Corp" would be in order before hinging much "faith" on the "messanger".



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seekerof

[Edited on 12-1-2004 by Seekerof]