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Originally Posted by Bionca
http://www.glaad.org/action/calls_ar...il.php?id=5062
Angie Z was murdered in Colorado last year....What is a radio host to do in a case like this? How about stumble over Angie's gender and then say that Transgenderd women should have their teeth kicked in. The link contains a full transcript and a call to write the radio station and the the DJ.
This should be easy enough to do.
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I sent off a letter, but in addition to that I would recommend writing to the FCC and reporting both the host AND the station to REALLY get someone in trouble. Look, to be honest, unless this guy is brand new and has only been hosting his show for the last few weeks, then the station already KNOWS this guy is an ass. Or they know he's provocative or they know his political leanings, which means they're not shocked by anything he says on the air.
So, sure, you can write to the station and complain, but from my experiences with the media all that is going to happen is they will put the letters into a folder...which will then get tossed into the infamous "circular file cabinet". Truth be told, the radio station will probably feel good about themselves IF they start getting a flood of email because in their money-grubbing minds they'll think of it this way: sure they pissed some people off, but this guy helped to put their station on the map. Hell, if they get a flood of email, the guy will probably even ask for a raise for what he said and the result it caused.
ON THE OTHER HAND...the FCC takes these things
very seriously. Trust me, I've attended a few FCC hearings and you'd be surprised at the attention things can get once you make a stink at the right levels or to the right people. Writing to them and complaining that the station violated broadcasting standards and complaining to them that an investigation into hate speech is warranted and complaining to them that this jerk-off was advocating violence on the air (or so it would seem to the average listener) has a better chance of making some waves. Or at least causing the host and the station some grief.
So here you go. File a complaint against this buffoon.
As Bionca said, this should be easy enough to do...
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm