Reply #224: This is not a question of free speech!!!! [View All]

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This is a question of a public radio programmer trying to subvert a request from the leadership of the station. Again, if misanthrope had an ethical or moral problem with doing a 4-hour Reagan program, misanthrope should have informed his/her program director and bowed out for that one show. Let someone else do it, who does not have a problem. That was the responsible choice. misanthrope made an irresponsible set of decisions: 1) to subvert the original request, and 2) to post this intention in a public forum.

Again, speaking as a 12-year public radio vet, paid and volunteer, I know how tough it is to keep a public station running. misanthrope chose to violate a request from WHIL management. misanthrope needs to be prepared to suffer the consequences.

Yes, the FR user was a tad mean about it.

But who here would not have done the same had a conservative public radio programmer (yes, they exist) boasted at Free Republic about subverting a broadcast regarding, saying, Clinton? Or FDR? You can't tell me that DUers are above this, when I know there are a few of you who would have gladly gotten a conservative programmer tossed for trying to take a similarly subversive action, on-air, against the wishes of his or her station leadership.