Spocko hits the bigtime

[Ian David]

thanks to our friend el gato negro!, we learn that the saga of spock v. the mouse has hit the dead trees media. usatoady sez:

ksfo personalities say the bloggers are trying to muzzle their political views. the bloggers say they're rallying behind the free-speech rights of a colleague whose website was briefly shut down after disney's abc network threatened to sue over alleged copyright violations.

some advertisers, including bank of america and mastercard, have deserted ksfo since an anonymous media critic identifying himself online as spocko began posting recordings of the station's "hot talk" hosts. spocko and some of his readers have been e-mailing the audio to ksfo advertisers since 2005, asking the companies whether they want to be associated with the controversial rhetoric.

the first amendment flap was debated sunday on cnn's reliable sources. dan riehl, a blogger critical of spocko, said some of the radio hosts' comments "were blown out of proportion or misrepresented" in the complaints to sponsors. mike stark, another blogger and a spocko ally, said: "the way to fight free speech that you disagree with is to engage in more free speech. and that's exactly what spocko did."


keep up the pressure, spocko! ahead, warp 5!
posted by skippy at 9:54 AM |

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[booley]

1. isn't Spocko doing just what conservatives say should be done?

We keep hearing Conservatives say to let the free market decide these things, that the market will weed out what is inapropriate.

Well, here's spocko, letting the market (through advertisers) decide if the words of KSFO's hosts were out of line.

At least, that's how it seems to me.