Trying to censor blogger - This is something you should see.

[LaPera]

Owner of conservative radio station KSFO demands liberal critic quit using audio clips

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/11/MNGHLNGH2N1.DTL

KSFO Right-wing nut Lee Rodgers KSFO Right-wing nut Melanie Morgan

The tale of Spocko, a self-described "fifth-tier" blogger who lives in San Francisco, exemplifies how one person with a computer and an Internet hookup can challenge the views of a major media corporation -- and what a media corporation will do to stop him.

For the past year, Spocko has been e-mailing advertisers of KSFO-AM with audio clips from its shows and asking sponsors to examine what they're supporting. Some sponsors have pulled their ads, after hearing clips like one of KSFO's Lee Rodgers suggesting that a protester be "stomped to death right there. Just stomp their bleeping guts out."

Now, bloggers and media freedom advocates are concerned about the legal reaction from Disney/ABC-owned KSFO. Shortly before Christmas, an ABC lawyer demanded that Spocko remove audio clips from his blog on the grounds that Spocko's posting of KSFO content was illegal. Digital freedom advocates counter that the clips constitute fair use and worry that critical voices could be silenced by corporations threatening legal action for violation of copyright law.

Among the clips circulated to advertisers was one of morning show co-host Melanie Morgan saying of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big laughing eyes." Morgan said she has never called for anybody's assassination and was speaking merely in political terms, as she is researching Pelosi's background for a book proposal. "Yes, this is a freedom of speech issue, and this individual is entitled to say what he wants to," said Morgan. "But he's trying to take away my livelihood, and I'm not trying to take away his."

Here is Spocko - also an interesting forum site ...
http://blogintegrityblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-am-spocko.html

I am Spocko
Thees following ees a guest-post by Spocko. He ees being harassed by lawyers for ABC/Disney for telling their advertisers the truth about what kind of sheet-headed eliminationist crrrap they were sponsoring.

Por favor take a minute to read eet, then joo weel see how joo can help as well.

We are also posting the eliminationist sound bites that KSFO/Disney's lawyers feel the need to suppress. Hopefully, the more pipples that post them, the sooner ABC/Disney weel get the message and back off of Spocko.

so.

ABC Radio Lawyer tells Spocko to Shut Up

Two days before Christmas I got a Cease and Desist letter from ABC regarding my use of audio clips from KSFO radio hosts Melanie Morgan and Lee Rogers on my blog, Spocko’s Brain (see attached PDF).

KSFO is a Disney affiliate whose radio hosts broadcast violent rhetoric directed toward journalists, liberals, Democrats, Arabs and Muslims all over the SF Bay Area and to the world via the Internet. I commented about the content of these host’s broadcasts on my blog and informed KSFO’s advertisers about what they were supporting by letting them listen to the exact audio quotes from the hosts.

Why the C&L Letter Now?

http://blogintegrityblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-am-spocko.html

[bryant69]

1. There was a similar case with Michael Savage a couple years back

I don't remember what became of it.

He made the same argument - that the people involved were trying to deprive him of his livelihood.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[LaPera]

4. He's another guy who originates from KSFO in SF isn't he?

[Earth_First]

5. Indeed n/t

[Doctor_J]

6. Couldn't all the TV writers and actors whom the Religious Wrong has run

off the air say the same thing? Any time a show has a gay character on it Pat Robertson's loony followers flodd the advertizers with hate mail.

[LaPera]

10. kick!

[hwmnbn]

2. Yep this story is getting.....

major coverage in the blogosphere. I think it's a great idea what he's done.

[Luminous Animal]

3. Related thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3097364

[LaPera]

8. Yes, It can't be shown enough - This should be seen by all progress liberal

bloggers & blog readers.

[villager]

7. I put it up at LBN, too -- glad to see it's getting some play here at DU

n/t

[GreenTea]

9. The sickos on the right don't like it when their HATE is exposed for everyone, especially

their bread & butter, their sponsors, to see.

Money is the only thing that matters to these hateful fucks! So we have to hit them hard and direct it where it hurts them the most...right at their pocket books.