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Life Isn’t Fair

By Kleinheider Posted on January 9, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Mary Mancini explains why:

Recently, Freddie and I were called out for not scolding a caller when he described Councilman Eric Crafton of English Only fame as being like the Grand Dragon of the KKK. We accepted responsibility and apologized. What we didn’t do was explain it away as “just a joke,” accuse the person who brought it to our attention of being overly sensitive, or make any other excuses.

As I thought about this incident and how it was approximately only the second time in the more than four years we have been on the air that we let something egregious be said without comment and were called out on it, I became frustrated and angry. Not because we had to apologize but because where we might let one or two instances of intolerance or hyperbole slip every four years, other local talk radio hosts spew intolerance and divisiveness daily without comment. And how can we be denied a full-time, 5 day a week spot on local talk radio because, as one programmer put it, “my listeners will be at my door with torches and pitchforks,” and yet those who do have full time shows get away with so much worse with simply a shrug of a shoulder and an “oh well, it’s just entertainment?”

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6 Responses to “Life Isn’t Fair”

  1. serr8d writes
    January 9th, 2009 8:34 pm

    I know I’m cryin’ for ‘em.

  2. Emmett Flatus writes
    January 10th, 2009 7:41 am

    Could it possibly have something to do with the outwardly liberal content and purpose of the program rather than its actual presentation?

  3. Mary Mancini writes
    January 10th, 2009 11:07 am

    No, it doesn’t.

  4. Daniel Plainview writes
    January 10th, 2009 2:04 pm

    Don’t back off. Give ‘em hell.

  5. DADvocate writes
    January 10th, 2009 7:05 pm

    I’ve never listened to Mancini’s show but it usually comes down to ratings. However, I used to hear this sort of thing on the Randi Rhodes show all the time when there was still an Air America.

    In the blogging world plenty of progressives/liberals “spew intolerance and divisiveness daily.” Just read them with an objective eye and you’ll see.

  6. DG writes
    January 10th, 2009 9:43 pm

    You know, ratings are one thing, but threatened boycotts when the channel to which you listen to delivers stuff you don’t agree with is another. And the latter is crude, whether it’s the left with Fox News or the right with cut-rate AM stations. Didn’t y’all used to be libertarians?

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