somebody alerted his station manager about what he was fixing to do!
Posted on 06/11/2004 10:14:03 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - 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.
A university spokeswoman later said the firing was premature and the decision was rescinded until Hornyak had a chance to respond to complaints about the Sunday show.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.
Hornyak had earlier been suspended indefinitely from his other job as disc jockey. He said Friday night he will appeal any reassignment or termination.
"They're firing me because of what I said, and the public's reaction to what I said," said Hornyak, who goes by the call name "Spider Bui."
H.B. Telling, the station's general manager, said he could not comment on whether Hornyak was fired because of the broadcast. The university has a policy against discussing personnel issues.
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.
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.
Telling said the station received numerous complaints about the show.
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.
He said Hornyak did not fill out a log of the songs he played on air and did not play the station's standard disclaimers announcing that his views did not represent those of the station or the university.
Hornyak said he did not fill out the logs due to absent-mindedness and that he did not play the disclaimer because he was busy taking song requests.
KSUA, like the campus newspaper, is supported by student activity fees and allocated by the campus student government. It is considered independent, Damron said.
Don't be.
Ugh, my first thread of the day. Nauseating.
Fairbanks is heavily populated with these walking gonads.
Nah, he's a loser and knows it.
A professional student chimes in with his ignorance.
"He's a little long in the tooth to be an undergrad?"
Yes he is, I refer to those types as professional students. The real world sccares the cr*p out of them. They require training wheels over the course of their entire life.
Another lefty got fired for the same attitude...here is where some of this story is:
This is how DUer Misanthrope got fired yesterday...
I noted that the DUmbies are HOWLING for blood over this.
Pit-y...
somebody alerted his station manager about what he was fixing to do!
Dude. This a bit much. 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.
"Berating a person for their response" IS NOT "faulting someone for the spread of AIDS". Try a different montra..
What does he think? That he owns the radio station?
Did the FReeper who reported that jerk really get banned? That was mentioned in one of the threads. That would be ridiculous.
If you've been paying attention, one of the big faults that homosexual activists find with RR is his "lack of response to the AIDS crisis" - and when they take that lie to the extreme, (which many do) that thousands have died of AIDS is his fault.
I guess you don't read many articles posted on FR lately.
Who else is going to say that about RR - conservatives?
"This extreme hatred of President Reagan quite often comes from the aids infected homosexuals of America."
yeah guess 6 Billion dollars wasn't enough.
Namecalling (or attempting to establish one as something less than worthy of discussion) is not what this thread or forum is about. Indeed, you are doing exactly what the DJ has done. (which made everyone angry enough to complain...
I suppose I am just suggesting that you grow up.
I wasn't name calling. I brought up the possibility that he just *might* be a homosexual. According to homosexuals and their supporters and enablers on the left, that's a good thing, anyway.
If he is a homosexual, it's not name calling, it would just be the simple truth. If he's not, I didn't say he is one, he just might be, on account of the two pieces of evidence I noticed.
I know you're a lawyer, and I'm just a simpleton with a GED (which I did quite well on, BTW!) - so I'm not very good with semantics and legal terminology.
Is it either illegal or immoral to conjecture that someone who made very offensive remarks on air just *might* be a homosexual? We can't go there? Are homosexuals sacred, or so evil we can't mention that someone might be one? I'm not sure of your tack here.
The local kid killing clinic probably has his credit card on file.
Perhaps the lefties are learning that the First Amendment may protect freedom of speech, but it doesn't gaurantee job security.
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