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After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.

Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump - or else face termination.

A Cumulus executive issued the directive on Wednesday, just as Congress met to certify Joe Biden's election victory and an angry mob of Trump supporters marched on the Capitol, overwhelmed police and briefly occupied the building, terrorizing lawmakers and leading to the deaths of five people.

'We need to help induce national calm NOW,' Brian Philips, executive vice president of content for Cumulus, wrote in an internal memo, which was first reported by Inside Music Media. Cumulus and its program syndication arm, Westwood One, “will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved and there are no alternate acceptable paths.

The memo adds: "If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately."



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Feel about it? It’s a media company telling staff that a given line of known misinformation is not to be disseminated by its facilities. What’s to feel?

It was expected.

I can't listen to them any less than I already do.

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Couldn't resist.

RIP Tommy…

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The Ben Shapiro Show
The Michael Knowles Show
The Mark Levin Show
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Man, talk about a hotbed of seditious talk!

I hope I am being facetious, and that's not just a proxy for StormFront coded messages.

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Man, talk about a hotbed of seditious talk!

I hope I am being facetious, and that's not just a proxy for StormFront coded messages.

The local spinal laser doctor has a radio advertising show - which had five minute digressions from spinal pain to President Trump's Great Triumphs. It was...odd and scary.

I had to go look this up: I remember Westwood One Radio as a company that produced really cool syndicated music shows and powerful topical news shows from the 1980s.

Apparently, that's an entirely different corporate entity. The new guys just use the name for the popularity of the old brand.

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For the previous incarnation, see Westwood One (1976–2011).

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I had to go look this up: I remember Westwood One Radio as a company that produced really cool syndicated music shows and powerful topical news shows from the 1980s.

Apparently, that's an entirely different corporate entity. The new guys just use the name for the popularity of the old brand.

[en.wikipedia.org]
For the previous incarnation, see Westwood One (1976–2011).

I remember them associated with some great music show too, but couldn't remember what it was...

Chris Plante replaced Beck before Beck drank the Koolaid. Then Beck replaced Plante.

I hope we can look forward to all the hosts complaining loudly, and on the air, about how their First Amendment rights are being trampled.

“In the landmark 1969 Supreme Court case, Brandenburg v. Ohio, the justices held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".

You can bet legal council for right-wing media outlets are reminding corporate leaders that they inciting a riot is not protected free speech for which they can be held accountable.”

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