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Re: Clear channel stations inciting anti-bike violence
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Rafael Paonessa
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Oct 21, 2003 14:39 PDT
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I think this is old news. The deejays in question issued a public apology after they received numerous complaints. I think this was maybe two months ago(?)
| | | | | | Lane Wimberley <la-@wayport.net> 10/21/03 4:01:41 PM >>>
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I don't recall having seen this come across the list (unless I missed
it somehow). Either way, I imagine some of you have heard about
this. Disturbing, to say the least.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0310140066oct14,1,6358088.story?coll=chi-leisuretempo-hed
Requires a free subscription (username/password) to Chicago Tribune
website. Here's the first paragraph or two...
Cyclists fail to see the humor in deejays' calls for assaults
By J. Michael Kennedy
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published October 14, 2003
Kevin Bray was, well, shocked, when he heard that shock jocks were
urging their listeners to run bicyclists off the road. He was
horrified when he found out it had happened at least three times since
July, in each case at stations owned by radio behemoth Clear Channel
-- first in Cleveland, then Houston and finally at a station in
Raleigh, N.C. To Bray, an avid cyclist and veteran North Carolina
highway patrolman, there seemed to be an ominous pattern developing.
"All I can say is, `Who's next?'" said Bray, who has filed a complaint
against the Raleigh station with the Federal Communications
Commission. "What these people are doing is some sort of sick
marketing ploy."
-Lane
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