More Disney/ABC/KSFO
KSFO radio did a "special" 3-hour show yesterday with a couple of goals:
1. Tell everyone why left-wing bloggers are *ssholes
2. Try to save their advertising base
Regarding #2, they seem to be failing. If you look at their advertisers' page, you'll see it is now their advertiser's page. They had 10 - 15, they now have one.
This all started because a blogger who calls himself "Spocko" started sending audio clips of some of the KSFO personalities greatest hits (you can get some of those from the youtube clip posted previously) to KSFO advertisers asking them if they really wanted their brand associated with hate speech. Apparently this was effective because ABC/Disney sent Spocko's hosting service a cease and desist letter, claiming the audio snippets were a "clear violation" of copyright laws. Apparently they've never heard of "fair use".
There are many many reviews of the show, I'll link to some of those below. What really struck me in listening to it is:
1. They don't see the hypocrisy in slamming left wing bloggers for allegedly trying to censor them while their parent company threatens to sue a blogger over protected speech
2. They believe that the Constitution gives them first amendment protection to receive advertising dollars, because no one is actually trying to force them to stop talking, just pointing out to KSFO's advertisers that their ad dollars might be better spent elsewhere.
Links to online commentary:
DailyKos
San Francisco Chronicle
Sinfonian's Live blogging of the show
Media Matters' Hate-Free Petition
posted by Dave @ 9:41 AM
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