Posted on 04/29/2015 5:05:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A radio station has suspended a disc jockey over his online posting about the arrest record of a Baltimore man whose fatal injury in police custody led to rioting.
Officials at FM station WAMO 100, which bills itself as Pittsburgh's No. 1 choice for urban music, said Wednesday the posting by Mike Jax was "too controversial" and partly inaccurate. They also said listeners had complained and threatened to harm Jax, whose real name is Mike Jackson....
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Free speech for me, but not for thee.
He could disguise himself as a white woman.
They’ll never see that coming...
The truth will set you...free?
This is what happens when you go against the Party Line.
Suspended in part because he didn’t “fact check”. Using that criteria, most “journalists” should be canned.
Translated, it means that the comment didn't fit the "progressive" narrative and must be censored.
Black station manager fires white DJ for not toeing the black supremacist line.
Posting facts collateral to that same case in an Instagram is not.
Suspended... this was a slap on the wrist.
When you have a position as the employee of the radio station, you don’t get to use that as your platform for any old thing you want to say regardless of what the station wants. That’s just right. The First Amendment does not cover that situation, and neither should it.
So even your Twitter and Facebook are fair game, on your off time?
It’s difficult to see a way out of this nightmarish box going forward—short of territorial separation. Statist socialists, underminers extraordinaire, have poisoned and corrupted the minds and souls of countless millions within two generations. Are we kidding ourselves that diametrically opposed conditions, individual freedom vs. statist slavery, can coexist peaceably?
It is not a fact in evidence that this was a “spare time” (or separated media) expression.
If he plausibly represents the radio station in the circumstances he speaks, they get to base his employment status upon what he speaks, period.
I had to find out what this martyr did ( and have posted elsewhere on FR.)
Heavy.com posted Gray’s complete rap sheet on Monday and it includes over several charges — primarily for offenses relating to drug distribution.
March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
March 13, 2015: Malicious destruction of property, second-degree assault
January 20, 2015: Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing
January 14, 2015: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute
December 31, 2014: Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute
December 14, 2014: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 31, 2014: Illegal gambling, trespassing
January 25, 2014: Possession of marijuana
September 28, 2013: Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, second-degree assault, second-degree escape
April 13, 2012: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, violation of probation
July 16, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute
March 28, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
March 14, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to manufacture and distribute
February 11, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 29, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation
August 28, 2007: Possession of marijuana
August 23, 2007: False statement to a peace officer, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
July 16, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)
The Washington Post reported on Friday that Gray had a lengthy criminal history and even had a two-year stint in prison. According to The Post, his charges were primarily for selling heroin and marijuana. However, only a few of the counts he was charged with resulted in convictions.
Exactly...
Mike Jax? Urban music station...let me guess... a non Caucasian?
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