Blocked by GoLocal
GoLocalProv’s company catchphrases is: “See it. Read it. Share it.” But the often-abrasive tabloid-esque news website doesn’t always make it easy to share – or even see – its content on Twitter. Especially for local reporters.
State level tickets against Cranston panhandling ordinance protesters dismissed
Judge William Guglietta dismissed the charges against nine people ticketed for walking on a freeway yesterday. The nine, seven activists and two members of the media in reaction to an action challenging Cranston’s recently enacted panhandling ordinance.
‘Wage theft, plain and simple’: My letter to WPRO and Cumulus Media
Editor’s note: Former Phoenix editor-turned-freelance journalist Phil Eil says WPRO owes him $1,350 for four stories he wrote in late 2014. He agreed to share the below letter he sent to the Cumulus-owned radio station’s corporate office in Atlanta, as well as the local manager in Rhode Island. “I gave WPRO and Cumulus the benefit […]
DePetro = ‘unwarranted panic, terror, fear and paranoia’
The Providence American says that John DePetro is “on a campaign to spread unwarranted panic, terror, fear, and paranoia among the citizens of RI about Liberians and Nigerians residing in our state.”
‘History of Hate’: New video shows DePetro’s worst transgressions
In case you are fortunate enough to not be familiar with John DePetro, the For Our Daughters campaign produced a video of the WPRO shock jocks most famous indiscretions. They range from rigging Arbitron ratings, to calling teachers whores, to threatening to kill his lover’s husband to being sued by a co-worker for sexual harassment. […]
John DePetro’s tacit antisemitism
“The people have won. The atheists have lost! The people have won. The atheists have lost,” crowed John DePetro as he began broadcasting last Tuesday, May 6th, about the Supreme Court decision Greece v. Galloway that ruled that the “practice of beginning legislative sessions with prayers does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First […]
Fan mail and more tacit racism from John DePetro
I got a piece of fan mail from John DePetro yesterday. Here it is, in its entirety: You are a pathetic individual . There was nothing racist regarding my comments or conversation on the radio. You seem to think you are so clever titling ” John DePetro is not a racist” on YouTube, to attempt […]
Defending Donald Sterling: John DePetro’s race-baiting
The racist comments allegedly made by Clipper’s basketball team owner Donald Sterling to his girlfriend V. Stiviano provided local talk radio jerk wad John DePetro the perfect opportunity to demonstrate his race-baiting skills. Under Depetro’s careful shepherding, callers were invited to defend Sterling’s comments because he’s a tired, possibly drunk old man who doesn’t fully […]
Anti-Depetro group gets 14 politicians to boycott advertising on WPRO
Initially the campaign targeting shock jock John DePetro focused on one advertiser. But now the group has organized at least 14 high-level politicians who say they won’t spend their campaign dollars on WPRO until DePetro is off the air. “We’ve appealed to WPRO and Cumulus Media’s sense of decency in requesting that they sever their […]
RIF Radio: Two shootings in PVD; hurtful words and the First Amendment; Sheldon Whitehouse grows RI economy
Or listen here. Wednesday Dec 18, 2013 North Kingstown, RI – Good morning, Ocean State. This is Bob Plain, editor and publisher of the RI Future blog podcasting to you from The Hideaway on the banks of the Mattatuxet River behind the Shady Lea Mill in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It’s Wednesday, December 18 … […]
Three of four candidates for governor boycott WPRO
Three of the four expected candidates for governor said they won’t appear on WPRO until John DePetro no longer works there. And the fourth has said he won’t go on DePetro’s show any more, according to media accounts. UPDATE: The Associated Press reports that Ken Block said, like Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and General Treasurer […]
Wingmen: Should DePetro be fired?
“John DePetro is not fair, he’s not honest, he’s not respectful. It’s time for him to go,” I said on NBC 10 Wingmen segment this week as Justin Katz, Bill Rappleye and I debate whether it’s okay for politicians to boycott the local radio station because of the uproar against the notoriously nasty shock jock […]
Labor’s Christmas gift to RI: A DePetro-free December
Does the holiday traffic seem a little less hectic this season? Thank a union member. Did the snow seem a little brighter on your way into work this morning? The organizing power of organized labor may have helped with that. That’s right, Rhode Island. We cut their pensions and they repaid us by giving us […]
Alex and Ani: stop supporting ‘misogynistic’ John DePetro
A new anonymous Change.org campaign is asking Alex and Ani, the “lifestyle brand” that markets jewelry to young women and girls, to stop advertising on WPRO until “as long as habitual misogynist John DePetro remains on the air,” according to the petition that you can sign here. After teachers and other union members protested a […]
With tolls, tea party got the government they demanded
When I was a cub reporter I subsidized my habit of writing for the Jamestown Press by working as an arborist on Aquidneck Island. To do so, I had to pay a lot of tolls going over the Newport Bridge. And not the ten cent kind like those crossing over the brand new Sakonnet River […]
Bill sponsor Malik more unbiased than WPRO news
Here’s an interesting instance of media bias: a WPRO preview story on a proposal to eliminate the state sales tax was less balanced than an op/ed in the Fall River Herald News written by the bill’s sponsor, Jan Malik. The WPRO report uses an interview between conservative talk show host Matt Allen, a supporter of […]
John DePetro’s disdain for undocumented workers
When six-year old Derrick Johnson was struck and killed by a pickup truck driven by Andres Morales, the community mourned a tragic death. There is no question that the terrible event was an accident, Morales had no intention or wish to harm the boy. Perhaps the accident was preventable, perhaps not, but the case has […]
RI state of mind and misleading headlines
“Rhode Island Most Miserable State” said numerous articles, as Gallup released its latest polling for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index on stress levels and enjoyment in various states. The problem with the headline is that it misrepresented the data Gallup provided, which can be seen here. Sadly, The Providence Journal mistakenly reported that Rhode Island was […]
Conservative Hate Radio Falls Out Of Fashion
Will Rhode Island soon hear a kinder, gentler WPRO? Probably not, but Lew Dickey, CEO of WPRO’s Atlanta-based parent company Cumulus, is hinting that we might start hearing less about Republican politics and more about the Red Sox baseball. “We’re seeing a shift in spoken word radio from political-based talk over to sports,” Dickey told […]
RIPR Should Hire Andrew Gobeil To Do Talk Radio
Rhode Island Public Radio should hire Andrew Gobeil to host a moderate and fair call-in talk radio show. The Ocean State could really use this. I haven’t spoken to either party about about this idea, but it sure seems to be a no-brainer to me. RIPR is a great young radio station in need of […]
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