Hate Radio: The Outer Limits of Tasteful Broadcasting

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Hate Radio The Outer Limits of Tasteful
Broadcasting

• Onelia Alvarado
• Gwen Darosh
• Annie Tornielli

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Background

• KRFP-AM an all-talk-format radio station
• Trevor Van Lansing
• Most controversial show
• 3-7 pm

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Examples of Controversy

• All these irresponsible whores are the same.
  They get knocked up by some construction worker,
  then expect the taxpayers to pay for them to sit
  around the house all day and watch Oprah Winfrey
  (Simmons 285)

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Examples of Controversy

• Why dont you tell your buddies to work for
  what they get like us Caucasians? All you do
  anyway is steal from the guys you dont like and
  then take their women. (Simmons 285)

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• Show is a bona fide moneymaker.
• The stations ratings jumped radically when Van
  Lansing was hired.
• Advertising revenues have tripled.

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1st Amendment Rights

• Radio is a business. You have to give the
  audience what they want
• We live in a country where guys like me can
  express an opinion
• Thats what the First Amendment is all about

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Discussion Questions

• 1. How are the lyrics of rapper Eminem like or
  unlike Van Lansings rants? Is an artist subject
  to different restrictions

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Discussion Questions

• 2. What, if any, are the differences between Van
  Lansings legal right to do what he does and the
  ethical implications of what he does?

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Discussion Questions

• 3. How does Van Lansings narrow view of the
  world differ from a television situation comedy
  that stereotypes blondes as dumb, blue-collar
  workers as bigoted, etc.?