He wasn’t a big fan of Twitter, often referring to social media as a cesspool, however, following President Trump’s account being blocked from Twitter, the conservative host deactivated his own account.
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If you don’t agree with the left, you can be labeled a racist and silenced. So much for free speech.
Yes I so agree with the comment about so called “conservative” talk show hosts. and Salem calls themselves a Christian company. They do many good things for the Lord, but I have worked for them in the past and they do indeed need to tone down their hosts. What a travesty to use the airwaves to inflame and divide. When are we actually going to care about others instead of supporting and dividing. What about common sense and treatment of our fellow Americans? This is a real shameful way to do business.
Cumulus Media sent the internal memo to employees on Wednesday, according to Inside Music Media. The Atlanta-based company owns 416 radio stations throughout the country, many using a talk-radio format with local and national right-wing personalities.
“We need to help induce national calm NOW,” Cumulus’s executive vice president of content Brian Philips wrote in the memo. The company “will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved and there are no alternate acceptable ‘paths.’”
Philips added, “If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.”
Good informationl it would be responsible for Salem Radio to step up, do the right thing, and tone down their extremist right wing hosts. Their entire lineup is far right hosts, about as far right as just can be, and they consistently talk about a rigged election, voter fraud, and all those incendiary topics.
Excellence in Broadcasting. What a joke. Instead of helping people find solutions for problems and differences Rush is all show and and uses the platform to get people to be divided. He was all about character when it comes to the Clintons, but Trumps character doesn’t matter. If he in any way supported that travesty last week, they finally should remove him from air as well. Free speech isn’t inciting people to violence. Yes you can critisize the government but not be right in incitement to violence and death. Make no mistake his getting off social media is an attempt at containing criticism of himself. I wish all these years he could be a voice of unity and not care about ratings. Like most things these days, so unfortunate. Support of this lunatic president is just unfathomable, whether you like Democrats (I’m not one) or not.) God please bring us real statesmen, not this rabble we have now on both sides.
The Twitter format has never been my favorite.
Unlike Facebook, it is more difficult to carry on a conversation.
The difference is Twitter is a newspaper telling you what to think.
Facebook is interaction.
Like anything else, it is what you do with it that makes it “bad”.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
At some point, someone will ask what role conservative talk radio had in promoting the attack last week. These radio stations are licensed by the government. Their hosts shouldn’t be promoting attacks on that very government.
Completely agree. But apparently some Rush fanboys -like Robert here on this thread (Robert E Lee?) are ok with incendiary comments, and even Rush Limbaugh being ok with violence. Not good. And you’re right, there will be consequences.
Rush is shrewd. Last Friday, he sanctioned the violent attack on the Capital, comparing the violence to the unrest that founded our country. More than likely, Twitter would have banned him anyway for those incendiary comments… so Rush beat them to the punch.
And First Amendment has no relevance here, because Twitter is a private company, not a public forum. Just like radio stations can accept or not accept advertising at the station’s discretion. Historical times.
Rush is an absolute trailblazer…but I beat him to it on this.
I closed my personal Twitter account a few years ago…and my Facebook account not long after that.
I don’t miss them at all. Rush is right…more and more, even as they disgustingly censor and ‘cancel’ views they disagree with, these sites just sink deeper and deeper into sewer uselessness.
Twitter has a market value of 40 billion dollars (Google it) and over 250 million users.
So close your account. We doubt they will miss you, lol. But thanks for your entertaining comment!
Also, Twitter allows all views. They just do not allow the encouragement of violence, or the planning of further domestic terrorism, on their platform.
Yes, Twitter allows all views. They only cancel those with which they find an issue. Coincidentally, the ones that create issues for Twitter are those that are problematic to the left such as Joe Biden’s criminal activities or President Trump’s speech.
We appreciate that it is tough for you to argue with facts and logic, that you have to resort to name calling and hostility.
And you had to resort to mocking my original comment, in which I was merely relating my personal experience with Twitter.
I would ‘argue’ that the hostility came from you. It is because of people like you that I decided those sites were no longer of any use to me. The sites, and people like you on them, have taken them from bad to worse…people like you who hide behind a fake and anonymous handle…