Morning Show with Sam Greenfield & Armstrong Williams

I will be a guest on the Sam Greenfield and Armstrong William’s Morning Show on WWRL 1600 AM radio in New York City tomorrow morning (Thursday, February 1st) at 6:30am EST to discuss Media Matters for America’s recent item, “Timeline of a Smear.” WWRL is an Air America Radio affiliate and can be heard by visiting www.wwrl1600.com and clicking on ‘Listen Live’ in the top right corner.

January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Media Matters, Radio Appearances | Comment 

Trying To Censor Blogger

San Francisco Chronicle

By Joe Garofoli

A series of events involving a local liberal blogger, a San Francisco conservative radio station and the reaction of two of the larger corporate advertisers in the country — Bank of America and MasterCard — is revealing how slippery freedom of speech has become in the digital age.

The tale of Spocko, a self-described “fifth-tier” blogger who lives in San Francisco, exemplifies how one person with a computer and an Internet hookup can challenge the views of a major media corporation — and what a media cor-poration will do to stop him.

For the past year, Spocko has been e-mailing advertisers of KSFO-AM with audio clips from its shows and asking sponsors to examine what they’re supporting. Some sponsors have pulled their ads, after hearing clips like one of KSFO’s Lee Rodgers suggesting that a protester be “stomped to death right there. Just stomp their bleeping guts out.”

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January 11, 2007 | Filed Under Media Matters, News Mentions | Comment