DJ Fired for Celebrating Reagan's Death

[Mobius]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=2&u=/ap/reagan_disc_jockey

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A college disc jockey who was initially fired after devoting a radio show to celebrating the death of Ronald Reagan will be reassigned to another job until he can respond to complaints about his actions, officials said Friday.


Scott Hornyak, a 28-year-old undergraduate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was told Friday that he was fired from his paid position as business manager at KSUA-FM, a student-run station.

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No tape of the show was available. But according to Hornyak, he berated Reagan, who died June 5, for his foreign policy in Latin America, Iraq and Afghanistan , and for his response to the AIDS epidemic.

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Hornyak said the show was "a celebration that Ronald Reagan was dead, was finally dead," and that he told listeners he wanted to "walk over the newly laid dirt" on Reagan's grave.

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Telling said Hornyak was suspended as a disc jockey solely because of his failure to obey the station's rules, not because of the inflammatory content of the show.


Mobius: At least someone had the guts to do it on air. Bravo, I say!

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Here we go again.

"Telling said Hornyak was suspended as a disc jockey solely because of his failure to obey the station's rules, not because of the inflammatory content of the show."

Their timing on taking action against an employee who fails to obey the staion's rules is impeccable.

[IkeWarnedUs]

2. Link is to a different (updated) story now

I went to your link and now the story reads:

DJ Reassigned After Feting Reagan's Death

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A college disc jockey who was initially fired after devoting a radio show to celebrating the death of Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) will be reassigned to another job until he can respond to complaints about his actions, officials said Friday.

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A university spokeswoman later said the firing was premature and the decision was rescinded until Hornyak had a chance to respond to complaints about the Sunday show.


"The university process wasn't followed properly," Debra Damron said. She said Hornyak will be temporarily reassigned to another job.

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I thought I would find something like that since the same thing happened when I followed a link to the WCCO website (some radio or TV station) from another thread.

http://wcco.com/national/Reagan-DiscJockey-aa/resources_news_html

[MadHound]

3. Let me guess, some of those old anti-Reagan classics

Washington Bullets(or frankly anything off of Sandinista) by the Clash, B Movies, by Gil Scott-Heron first come to mind for an Anti-Reagan program. Had great experience in this sort of thing, since I DJed at a college station during Reagan's rise to the Presidency.

Good for this guy for having the courage of his convictions.