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An Open Letter to Bob Matthews. RE: A Debate with......

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   August 22, 2018 　 Mr. Matthews: I have been an off-and-on listener to your show since it premiered in 1985. You are a rarity in talk-radio: someone who, regardless of one's opinion, argues in a reasonable manner, with evidence to support your claims. You are also willing to let callers contribute without talking over them. I listened to the segment on your August 15 show, in which you and several callers discussed a potential on-air debate between you and Alan "Brother Wease" Levin , the morning shock-jock on WHAM 1180's sister station, Radio 95.1 (WAIO FM). I respectfully ask that you reconsider pursuing such a venture. It is not because you can't score points in a debate with Levin. It is because Levin is an insufferable, intolerant bully who is not willing to debate. Ask Bob Lonsberry . The same Bob Lonsberry who, in 2003, questioned then-Mayor-For-Life Bill Johnson's fitness to run Monroe County during his race ag...
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The recent controversy surrounding a "fake news" message which was read, upon orders by Sinclair Broadcast Group management, by news anchors at amost all of its 190-plus TV stations, raises the question --- for the umpteenth time --- about bias in journalism. Short answer: it exists. In too many cases, it leans leftward. In my previous life as writer-photographer-ad salesman for two weekly papers in Orange County, NY (one of them was an "urban" paper, The Hudson Valley Black Press), I was ordered on at least one occasion to slant my stories in support of the minority (non-white) viewpoint. He claimed that white-owned mainstream media companies slanted their reportage against minorities. Nothing could be further from the truth. I was threatened eith my job for disagreeing with the publisher over race-based hiring quotas (a.k.a.: affrimative action). So, after seven months, and much contemplation, I left that organization. No money or caree...
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