Salem running commercials on WBZ?

SteveOrdinetz steveord@bit-net.com
Mon Nov 22 08:29:16 EST 2004


  David Tomm wrote:
>>Had a conservative talker like Rush referred to someone in that
>>way it would be all over the news.
>
>That's crap.  Just last week a non-syndicated conservative host got into 
>hot water for referring to Mexican-Americans as "wetbacks."  That story 
>got similar press in industry circles as the liberal host who criticized 
>Condi & Colin.  If anything, the liberal host is getting slightly more 
>heat since the radio industry tends to lean much more conservative than 
>other media.

Not sure if it's liberal vs. conservative as much as race itself.  It seems 
that only whites can be racist in the eyes of the media.  Look at remarks 
by former presidential candidates Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton.  There also 
was a Hispanic running for some office in California who also managed to 
get away with remarks about whites that never would have been tolerated the 
other way around.  Why does the news media go so easy on non-white racists? 




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