Letters to the Editor
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What you'll need to make an FCC complaint
It would be more helpful if those of you who had filed an FCC complaint had given the following information about the KSFO program in question. I suspect a lot of people may have gone to the FCC site, discovered they didn't have all the required data and just left the site without filing a complaint. If you've already been through the process, share what you know about how to do it so that those you are encouraging to do the same thing, will actually follow through on it.
Here's the data you'll need:
Date of Program: June 27, 29 and 30th, 2006
Time: 5:00AM - 9:00AM
Network: ABC/Disney
Station: KFSO AM
City: Whatever city you're in. They have webcast.
Name of Program: The Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Program
Complaint: (This is what I wrote. I edited and paraphrased what Joe said in his column about the broadcast and added some of my own commentary.)
COMPLAINT:
On June 27, following a news item about Bush's denunciation of the NYTimes story on the SWIFT bank consortium's tracking of terrorist funds, Morgan said, "Get 'em! Yes, hang 'em! Yeah!"
Two days later on June 29, Rodgers, upset with the Associated Press for reporting that antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and others had begun a hunger strike, said "Why don't you dopes at the Associated Press do the world a favor? Commit mass suicide!"
"Oh, Lee!" tittered Morgan.
On June 30th, Rodgers utters these words, "God Almighty. The day will come ... The day will come when unpleasant things are going to happen to a bunch of stupid liberals. It's going to be amusing to watch, it's going to be very amusing to watch."
Calling for the death of publishers with whom one disagrees with over the public airwaves is hate speech. It adds nothing of value to the political discourse and serves only to inflame and corrupt rational public debate. This is simply hatemongering speech and is no more protected under the 1st Amendment than is yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre that is not on fire.
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Here's the FCC link again:
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cib/fcc475BConf.cfm