University Radio Station in Alaska Suspends Student DJ for Reagan Comments

[CShine]

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - A disc jockey at a university radio station who turned a Sunday radio show into a "celebration" that Ronald Reagan "was finally dead" has been suspended. The disc jockey, a University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate who goes by the call name "Spider Bui," said his show was a reaction to the media's positive portrayal of Reagan after his death Saturday. Managers at KSUA-FM said the show was in poor taste and was put on without permission. Neither the student nor station staff would reveal the student's real name.

No tape of the show was available. According to the disc jockey, he berated Reagan for his foreign policy in Latin America, Iraq and Afghanistan, and for what the student called a "homophobic" response to the AIDS epidemic.

"I said that I was sick of all of the media that was glorifying Reagan and rewriting history that was pretty despicable," he said. "Basically, what the gist of the show was, it was a celebration that Ronald Reagan was dead, was finally dead."


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBD1KEQBVD.html

[Sandpiper]

1. Hooray for free speech!

You're free to say whatever the wingnuts think is appropriate.

[jeff30997]

2. Next thing you know,the DJ will end up in Guantanamo...

[abracadabra]

3. free speech bites the dust again

soon we will all lose our constitutional right to free speech and censorship will be in full force.
You watch!
a terra atack like 911 will allow enforcement of WARTIME powers
and all peace time rights will be suspended.
you watch
psychic me sees-

[loveable liberal]

4. inappropriate? yes. should it be censored? no.

Raygun was still a person, might have been a crappy person, but a person nonetheless who will be missed by some. Concentrating on his misdeeds would have filled the time for many a radio program. Concentrating on the fact he died cheapens the whole argument against what he did.

[saigon68]

6. ONE THING FOR SURE

SOME CRAPPY COLLEGE STATION IN ALASKA APPEARED ON MY COMPUTERS RADAR SCREEN THIS MORNING


LOL

[fob]

9. Saigon, this is OT, but I think post 15 deserves one of your awards

That is post 15 in this thread below;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=615831&mesg_id=615831

Note: I'm not stalking saigon68, I just read the above thread and when I got to #15, I said that deserves a saigon68 award and this is the next thread I read, so I thought I would nominate.

[BiggJawn]

8. Death conquers All, eh?

Yeah, he was a rotten man, but he's dead now, so that wipes out a whole lifetime of Neo-Con actions, right?

When do we start rehabilitating the memory of Adolf Hitler? He really wasn't all that bad a guy, after all. I mean, sure, he tried to destroy most of Europe, but he gave us the Volkswagen and the Autobahn, right?

Remember: When you put Ketchup on your hot dog this weekend, if you're cooking out, you're putting a whole VEGETABLE on your sandwich, according to Ronaldus Rex...That's what he told the school kiddies back in the day...

[UpInArms]

11. add some relish

and you have 2 - count 'em - 2 whole vegetables on your hotdog!

And trees are one of the greatest causes of pollution.

[BiggJawn]

13. And let James Watt be James Watt.....n/t

[newyawker99]

14. Hi loveable liberal!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[loveable liberal]

16. thanks mang...nice to be needed...

[dbt]

5. Kick!

Imagine using the public airwaves to criticize a public figure. If this shit catches on, we could have whole armies of people on, say, AM stations using every breath to criticize public figures.

What would we do if THAT ever became popular?

:wow:
dbt

[UpInArms]

12. but we do have whole armies of

rightwingnuts out there criticizing any public figures that don't line up "shoulder-to-shoulder" with the chimpboy

[randr]

7. I want to know how the listeners responded.

[Tempest]

10. Most likely very negatively

Fairbanks is extremely conservative for a college town.

Several members of my family graduated from there.

[Dudley_DUright]

15. Very very conservative town

I was just up there for my nephew's graduation from high-school. The valedictorian took a mild shot at Bush in his remarks, commenting on his difficulty with the English language, and the crowd audibly gasped and grumbled at his remark.