Posted on 05/23/2005 7:27:16 AM PDT by NYer
From Anne Newman of Operation Outcry:
Silent No More (www.operationoutcry.org):
"Earlier this week [of May 15, 2005], shock jock Elliot Segal of Washington, DC's radio station DC101 decided it would be hilarious to hold a contest with a prize for the listener who had the most abortions. While this contest was disgusting by its very nature, the offense was compounded because he held the competition on public airwaves during early morning hours, when people are driving to work and bringing their children to school. The 'contest' featured at least one potential statutory rape, two medical assaults and a number of callers proud of the children they had aborted.
"One caller, identified as K-Dog, proudly asserted that he was responsible for 16 abortions between two different women. K-Dog's second wife called in to proudly verify the 5 abortions she had with him. Graphic descriptions and crude jokes were included. Such depravity has no place on public airwaves.
"DC101's parent company, Clear Channel Communications, won applause last year when it dropped Howard Stern because he was deemed too offensive and controversial. It appears this brief dance with decency was merely a publicity stunt, as Stern alleged at the time.
"Please contact Clear Channel and ask them to send a message by firing this schlock jock."
Contact:
Omar Thompson
VP, Marketing and Communications
200 East Basse Road
San Antonio, TX 78209
210-822-2828
omarvthompson@clearchannel.com
Depravity knows no bounds.
Eric Segal wrote Love Story. I am more than a little embarrassed that I know this fact.
I was just joking....but if you know who wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull then you are in real trouble.
;>)
uh-oh
The owners of the station have the right to do whatever they want with it; its their station. If they feel taking this show off the air is in their best interest they have every right to. I won't agree with that decision, but I certainly won't try to tell them what they can and cannot program.
It is still my opinion he should remain on air. I've heard more outcry over this from people OUT of his listening area. Do you think people who live out of his particular listening area have the right to demand he be taken off the air? Why should someone who lives outside of his listening area have an influence over what I listen to? It would be like me demanding some radio show in Tennessee be taken off the air. I don't hear it; I'm not the audience. I don't have any place to tell the people of Tennessee what they can and cannot listen to.
Disgusting.
Or it can further harden hearts. I think most people are cowed by this kind of thing. At least enough to keep their disgust to themselves. This jerk shouldn't be on the radio, period.
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