Hate radio is losing the battle here in the D.C. area

[DancingBear]

(Note: WMAL carries Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. - Graham is a wanna-be)

A local radio talk show host touched off complaints from an Islamic civil rights organization yesterday after repeatedly describing Islam on the air as "a terrorist organization" that is "at war with America."

The organization, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), asked the station to take disciplinary action against Michael Graham, who hosts WMAL-AM's late-morning call-in program.

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A station executive, Randall Bloomquist, said yesterday that Graham's comments were "amped up" but justified within the context of the program. He said the station, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., had no plans to reprimand Graham.

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After rising slightly during the months preceding the presidential election last year, WMAL's audience ratings have fallen precipitously. Exact ratings for Graham's 9-11:45 a.m. time slot are unavailable, but WMAL's morning programming, which includes part of Graham's program, are off 25 percent since last year. The station overall has lost 41 percent of its core 25-to-54-year-old audience in the past 12 months, dropping from 158,200 individual listeners per week to 116,600.


link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072501649.html

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1. Good!

I truly believe that huge numbers of Americans who fall into the Republican hate-and-scare snare do it because they get mind filth spewed at them day in and day out on the radio. If fewer listeners get poisoned, then maybe there's hope that this country will wake up.

[sam sarrha]

2. I just Hate It when that happens....but it couldnt happen to better people