This is a great comment! I have studied HOW people, " get away with" saying things like death threats toward others, violent rhetoric toward individuals & inciting violence. They I figured out what would stop them from getting away with it. Specifically I focused on their ability to profit from what they were saying. . One of the way the…
This is a great comment! I have studied HOW people, " get away with" saying things like death threats toward others, violent rhetoric toward individuals & inciting violence. They I figured out what would stop them from getting away with it. Specifically I focused on their ability to profit from what they were saying. . One of the way they "get away with it" is if it makes them, or someone else, money.
When I convinced the advertisers of the radio hosts on KSFO to stop funding the host's violent rhetoric, the radio station stopped making money on those ads. One host did not have her contract renewed because she was no longer generating big Revenue in line with her salary. She wasn't let go for what she said, but because it became unacceptable to the advertisers. The listeners of the right wing radio station found the violent rhetoric acceptable. And they kept tuning in. But a big audience without advertising Revenue was not desirable. Another one of the hosts was a sexist, bigot who called for the genocide of an entire group of people. The listeners, and the local management, did not have a problem with his comments but after I alerted them, the advertisers did. His contact wasn't up yet, so they kept him on. Management hoped they could get new advertisers who were fine with his bigotry, sexism & violent rhetoric. But I stayed on the case, alerting the ad buyers that his show was toxic. Finally the station fired him 6 months before his contract was up so they could get revenue in the time slot. If the 2 hosts had billionaire backers who were willing to lose money to keep they audience and to keep their message out there, they might still be there today. I used the disgust of the advertisers to what rh hosts said to get them to pull ads. The pressure of lack of ad revenue to the radio station got them to fire the hosts (the hosts COULD have stopped calling for the Death of people on the air, but they didn't. They doubled down. They lost their livelihood doing radio. The advertisers were the ones who said this kind of talk will not generate revenue from us. The hosts could still say it. It could still be popular. But not as profitable as before.
This is a great comment! I have studied HOW people, " get away with" saying things like death threats toward others, violent rhetoric toward individuals & inciting violence. They I figured out what would stop them from getting away with it. Specifically I focused on their ability to profit from what they were saying. . One of the way they "get away with it" is if it makes them, or someone else, money.
When I convinced the advertisers of the radio hosts on KSFO to stop funding the host's violent rhetoric, the radio station stopped making money on those ads. One host did not have her contract renewed because she was no longer generating big Revenue in line with her salary. She wasn't let go for what she said, but because it became unacceptable to the advertisers. The listeners of the right wing radio station found the violent rhetoric acceptable. And they kept tuning in. But a big audience without advertising Revenue was not desirable. Another one of the hosts was a sexist, bigot who called for the genocide of an entire group of people. The listeners, and the local management, did not have a problem with his comments but after I alerted them, the advertisers did. His contact wasn't up yet, so they kept him on. Management hoped they could get new advertisers who were fine with his bigotry, sexism & violent rhetoric. But I stayed on the case, alerting the ad buyers that his show was toxic. Finally the station fired him 6 months before his contract was up so they could get revenue in the time slot. If the 2 hosts had billionaire backers who were willing to lose money to keep they audience and to keep their message out there, they might still be there today. I used the disgust of the advertisers to what rh hosts said to get them to pull ads. The pressure of lack of ad revenue to the radio station got them to fire the hosts (the hosts COULD have stopped calling for the Death of people on the air, but they didn't. They doubled down. They lost their livelihood doing radio. The advertisers were the ones who said this kind of talk will not generate revenue from us. The hosts could still say it. It could still be popular. But not as profitable as before.