Calling All Wingnuts

Jay Diamond, a former conservative radio show host in the North East that changed stripes and is now an anti-corporate progressive, sent me this.  He takes on Hannity and pretty much nails the problem…:

This lack of standards is far more than a lack of good manners in racial matters; it is a complete breakdown in the most grave responsibility that a radio broadcaster has to the public; the moral obligation to tell the truth.
Right now, cynical hidden agendas rule the day on radio. And remember, no radio personality puts himself in front of the microphone. It is always the station owner who is speaking, and it is always the station owner who is responsible for upholding the ethical barricades against the lure of money and political power.

An owner who forswears his responsibility to present honest programming commits an offense against our democracy by distorting the airwaves with hidden agendas and hidden special pleadings.

This is the real offense against decency and it would be a dangerously missed opportunity if we allow ourselves to be bamboozled by media into thinking it is merely about bad racial manners.