Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode Nine

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 infringe's a host's right to freedom of speech is also a lie, and hosts know it; and they're playing to the civically ignorant and media illiterate. Commentary. For educational purposes.  Makes fair dealing use of bits of audio from The Mark Levin Show and the Rush Limbaugh Show both from January 11th.