Wow, sorry about the misunderstanding on the air dates -- there was another sentence in my original post that I must have erroneously deleted while formatting. It stated that I couldn't find a transcript of yesterday's show, but upon searching, found the audio from the show last year... I did not mean to infer that it was aired yesterday, but rather show the track record and lack of improvement (not to mention the lack of taste).
Sorry for the misleading post... ~ Nich > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:02:49 -0700 (PDT) > From: Ken Livesey <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Bikies] WJJO DJ skit involving killing cyclists > To: Amy Groshek <[email protected]> > Cc: bikies <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > It is correct. I just wanted to be clear that the audio clip is not from > yesterdays program. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Amy Groshek <[email protected]> > To: Ken Livesey <[email protected]> > Cc: bikies <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:59:58 AM > Subject: Re: [Bikies] WJJO DJ skit involving killing cyclists > > Is the madvelocity post incorrect? I understand that the clip is old, but > the post says that comments were made yesterday: > > "On Tuesday March 24th 2009 a local radio show broadcast on WJJO featured a > segment on bicyclists in the Madison area. While I was not a listener to > this morning's WJJO show one listener described the event as "The morning > hosts talked about how they loved to roll down their windows and yell things > at the lame bikers like "nice spandex you fairy!"" > > Randy Hawke also acknowledges that the broadcast "this morning" included > comments about cyclists. > > If that's the case, then it's even more important, since these comments > have continued even though 50% of the staff was replaced. I agree with > Richard that this is prejudicial stuff: "nice spandex you fairy!" contains a > conflation of terms, a slurring of all types progressive into something > worthy of working-class or white-male-suburban-driver aggression. "Cyclist" > is made to mean "gay," and "gay" already means "target of my aggression." If > this sort of rhetorical gesture were made in a public venue, but instead > referred African-Americans or another racial minority, it would result in a > public uproar. > > On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Ken Livesey wrote: > > > Please be aware that the audio was from a WJJO radio show from an earlier > date. I am not aware of the exact date. The clip was included to the > www.madvelocity.com article to show a precedence for the stations outlook > towards cyclists. >
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