Poor Casey Lartigue, Jr. got kicked off of XM radio. This Outlook article in Sunday's Washington Post,Talk Radio Can't Handle The Truth is his tale of woe.
The article discusses the prominence of a memorandum titled "Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement" as well as a detailed description of conspiracy theories in the Black community and a quick list of conspiracy theories in the society, overall. This is where I hit another, "I must not be Black" moment because I never head of the memo. The "I must not be Black" moment can be best described as the feeling I get when I'm told Jesse Jackson, Sr., Al Sharpton, or other "Black leaders" tell Blacks what to think. "Damn! Did I miss a telephone call!?!?!"
Anyway, Casey and co-writer Eliot Morgan make a case for "Black talk radio" censorship, but at the end, I think I see something else:
The following Monday, the station's programming director berated Lartigue in a phone call, threatening to suspend the show or pull it off the air. We agreed that we wouldn't "attack" other hosts again, if that was to be the station's policy. The programming director made it clear that he suspected that every source we cited was part of the cover-up. The tense discussion grew into a heated argument, and the programming director yanked the show off the air.
Casey and Eliot are whining. Something tells me that "heated argument" is what did it.
You're right.
I looked at that op-ed for 10-15 minutes before deciding not to comment on it.
Posted by: P6 | August 05, 2007 at 02:26 PM
Lartigue and Morgan got canned for committing two cardinal no-nos of commercial radio: 1) slamming fellow employees while on the air; 2) mouthing off to your boss under the guise of 'truth telling'.
Posted by: MIB | August 05, 2007 at 10:58 PM