Friday, June 03, 2005
More Reasons To Hate Corporate Media
...as if there weren't enough on the table already.
In the latest attempt to control your mind, Clear Channel Communications set up a phony community radio station. Radio Free Ohio broadcasted anti-corporate messages and even bad talked ClearChannel in their programming and on their web site. The sham was discovered when someone noticed the web site's URL mapped to an IP owned by the bastard corporation. They even had the nerve to ask for donations. The web site appears to have been deleted, but some of the text was archived by Stay Free.
The NY Times managed to get this explanation from Clear Channel:
In the latest attempt to control your mind, Clear Channel Communications set up a phony community radio station. Radio Free Ohio broadcasted anti-corporate messages and even bad talked ClearChannel in their programming and on their web site. The sham was discovered when someone noticed the web site's URL mapped to an IP owned by the bastard corporation. They even had the nerve to ask for donations. The web site appears to have been deleted, but some of the text was archived by Stay Free.
The NY Times managed to get this explanation from Clear Channel:
Clear Channel, as I see it, is dedicated to entertaining radio and to getting results for our advertisers," Mr. Lankford said, noting that the company owns both conservative and progressive talk radio stations. "There's a hole in the market here and we're going to fill it.
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