On AlterNet: shock jock

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "shock jock"

Racist Right-Wing Shock Jock Who Threatened the Lives of Judges Beats Jail Rap for Second Time

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. March 14, 2010.

Hal Turner, an internet shock jock and F.B.I. informant, beat the rap again as his second federal "Death-Threat Trial," ended in yet another mistrial.

Is Glenn Beck Finished?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. August 24, 2009.

A Color of Change campaign has cost Beck's show 36 advertisers so far. Will Fox decide he isn't worth it?

Limbaugh Wants to Kick Colin Powell Out of the GOP

Ryan Powers, ThinkProgress. May 6, 2009.

Limbaugh told Powell to "close the loop and become a Democrat."

Was Britain Wrong in Banning Right-Wing Shock Jock Michael Savage?

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. May 6, 2009.

Savage was included on a list of hate preachers and anti-gay protesters, but what about civil liberties in a modern democracy?

New GOP Standard Bearer Rush Limbaugh Is Less Popular Than Jeremiah Wright

Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. February 7, 2009.

Didn't the Republicans who turned to Rush Limbaugh read the poll which found that he's one of the least popular political figures in the country?

Glenn Beck Wonders Why He's Resented as a Bigot

Steve Rendall, FAIR. November 21, 2008.

It takes an angry truck driver who threatened the hate-spewing host to wonder, "Is this who we've become?"

Don 'Nappy Headed Ho's' Imus Is Ba-a-ack -- and So Are His Enablers

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. November 19, 2007.

It didn't take long for Don Imus' Big Media and Big Politics enablers to crawl out of the woodwork and embrace the shock jock all over again. With a list of Imus's top 10 enablers.

How to End the Reign of Shock Jocks

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. May 16, 2007.

Other than the desire to shock listeners -- and thereby create controversy, grow audiences and sell advertising -- the current spate of repulsive shock-jock gibberish all share something else: a salary from CBS.