Radio

KTLK radio’s Chris Baker followed up his Nov. 14 comments about a transgender person being a “mutilated lesbian” with a tirade in which he blames the media — and transgender people themselves — for the murder of Latiesha Green in Syracuse, New York. He says “a majority of the blame does not lie with” the killer, but with the media who “enable people who need serious psychological counseling.” Now activists from Soulforce Q are trying to get on Baker’s show to discuss the issues.

As we’ve said before, McCain = Bush is sure to be a recurring equation used by Democrats and their supporters in the run-up to November, but a new radio campaign by Americans United for Change’s Bush Legacy Project is painting Norm Coleman — and five other members of Congress — with the Bush brush.

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When KQRS morning show DJs implied that a high suicide rate among native American teens was the result of incest, station managers were quick apologize. To make amends, they promised to hire native American interns and invite members of the Red Lake Chippewa and Shakopee Mdewakanton communities as guests during the state’s top-rated morning [...]

On The Patriot’s ratings slump: The new Arbitron ratings for local radio are out, and The Rake’s Brian Lambert notes that “deep wing nut radio, WWTC AM 1280, aka, ‘Patriot’ lost about half its adult audience from last year,” going from a 1.1 percent share to a 0.6 percent share. Conservative blogger Nihilist in Golf [...]

“Not a smart move.” That’s what the president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists said yesterday morning of the Star Tribune’s plan to get columnists to switch to reporting. Mike Argento, also a columnist for the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania, said, “Columnists are the personality of a newspaper; the voice of a newspaper. [...]