Local News Anchor Feels Pain from Afar

In times when Clear Channel makes up "local news" reports from central studios and broadcasts them over radio stations around the country, it's worth asking the question: when does it cross the line into deception?

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Clear Channel manufactured rallies for Bush's war

[HongPong]

Here's a creepy chunk of nearly-forgotten war news: with an eye towards Michael Powell's FCC potential actions against the bloated radio corporation, Clear Channel actually funded and hosted its own "Rally for America" pro war functions all over the place... Tom Delay even spoke at one. Here's one story on it. Plenty more on Google. This, clearly, is a situation of corporations manipulating the public, blar blar blar... It's extremely creepy, and it will be a lovely pattern for NewsCorp and the rest to emulate when we take on the Persians and Chinese in 2007.

I dont really care that one weather guy is lying but Clear Channel on the whole is a horrible project that has obliterated good radio in Mpls/St. Paul. I've heard that their sprawl is only possible because they buy radio stations on the collateral of the other stations they own. If they can't keep buying and gutting stations they might implode from debt. Hence the cost cutting virtualization all around. Thanks for the Free Market, Michael "Totally Objective Communications Arbitrator Not His Poppa's Boy" Powell!