So there's a great diary listing a ton of stations that broadcast Limbaugh. I also hastily posted a diary expressing my feelings as to how important putting pen to paper can be by linking to this video. So, now that's it after dinner, the kids are in bed, the wife's asleep and I have some me time, I wrote a letter that I plan to send tommorow. I used some ideas provided by Bill S here and put the letter below the squigglies to provide a basis should others agree with the paper idea. I also put it up for any suggestions and for help with getting the station managers names, none of which were listed. These are all clearchannel and I (heart) radio; the names I saw seem to be interrelated.
For Eastern Mass:
Boston -- Talk 1200 (WXKS-AM) ; 10 Cabot Road ; Suite 302 ; Medford, MA 02155
Springfield -- WHYN 560 ; 1331 Main Street, 4th Floor ; Springfield, MA 01103
Worcester -- WTAG 580 ; No address listed
Station Manager
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Dear Station Manager,
I am writing to express my extreme displeasure with your selection of programming with regards to Mr. Rush Limbaugh. I am a firm believer in the right to free speech as historically protected in our Constitution and I do support your right to broadcast whatever programming you see fit.
However, Mr. Limbaugh has crossed a line. Free and public debates on important issues are often spirited and opinions are often viewed as objectionable by those who disagree. But instead of debate or reason, he chose to assault the integrity and good name of a woman who opposed his viewpoint using your station and others as his pulpit. Although the speech is technically protected, it was not speech of ideas; it was a vulgar and protracted diatribe of intolerance and misogyny. Your continued support of such obscenity degrades your station and diminishes any sense of public value that you might insist you provide.
I believe it is important that you know that as long as Rush Limbaugh is carried on your radio station I will actively oppose patronization of any of the sponsors who advertise on your station, not just on Mr. Limbaughs's show. I will also use all my available pulpits to encourage others to follow suit.
Further, should it be your decision to continue to provide him a broadcast platform, at your time of license renewal I will file an objection or add my signature to an objection with the Federal Communications Commission stating that, in my opinion, you are not broadcasting in the public interest.
It is my request that you discontinue carrying Mr. Limbaugh’s show so that this nation may proceed to heal the divisions that have been so recently and harshly highlighted. Please consider our nation and your continued success as a broadcaster.
Sincerely,
Us