NEW YORK (AP) — The ownership group for several talk radio hosts across the country, including syndicated figures like Mark Levin and Dan Bongino, says its personalities need to tone things down or face firing.
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Cumulus Media content chief Brian Philips sent an email to managers Wednesday, the day of the U.S. Capitol riot, saying the company had to help induce calm.
“There will be no dog whistles about ‘stolen elections,’ ‘civil wars’ or any other language that infers violent public disobedience is warranted, ever,” said the memo, first reported by Inside Music Media.
The memo said Cumulus would not tolerate any suggestion by its on-air personalities that the presidential election is not over.
“Please inform your staffs that we have ZERO TOLERANCE for any suggestion otherwise,” Philips said in the memo.
The company did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment Monday.
Cumulus owns 416 radio stations in 86 markets across the country, along with the syndication arm Westwood One.
I was wondering who would be the first out of the gate. It’s a private business, not the government. There is no free speech protection. In fact, as a conservative, you should support a business’ right to police its own workforce without the government.
The only problem is that Mark Levine last night on his radio show said its false fake news !!
Fake News Again Mark Levin said this never happened last night and he never got such a memo
From now on there is no more stolen elections only when a leftis loses it is a stolen election
Bull..oney. When BLM and far leftist groups destroyed NYC no one had a problem with that and never a word was uttered by the lame stream media. When the left cried about Trump winning due to the Russians, that went on for years…again, it was ok for the left stream media to discuss that ad nausea?
Is Free Speech in America a thing of the past.
Wapo is lying, like they usually do. Fake news propagandists fornthe democrats, the enemy of the people.
Mark Levin would tell them to stick it someplace where the sun don’t shine.
> “There will be no dog whistles … that infers violent public disobedience is warranted, ever”
If that were to be truly enforced then there would hardly any clip of any Democrat saying or doing anything.
WE the people will conrinue to speak!
George Orwell had it right…Big Brother…
goebbel perfected the BIG LIE. Trump used it . thank God, both lost
As long as the shows tone down impeachment nonsense talk I have no issue with both sides cooling the temps. Both npr and Fox need to cool it
About time!