Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode Nine

paulcrosstoronto’s Podcast · Jan 15, 2021 · 6m

How a memo from a Radio boss does not violate a host's right to freedom of speech. From January 13, 2021. Right-wing talk radio hosts in the U-S have been influencing and encouraging Trump supporters for years. But since the election of November 2020, many have been going even further: they have been perpetuating the falsehood that he had won the election. It took the violent insurrection of January 6th for a radio company that is one of the biggest producer/purveyors of toxic talk radio to tell its hosts stop telling that lie. One understands a host might react on air. But claiming the memo…