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Imus & Dog: where are they now?

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

On the day Don Imus returned to the airwaves after paying his penalty for several months in broadcasting purgatory (my story here), the petition to get Dog the Bounty Hunter back on the air is wrapping up (my story here); you now have only a few days left to sign the petition. Free the […]

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Tags: General

John Wright, Tommy Boyd discuss Beenie Man

December 3rd, 2007 · 5 Comments

I made a brief stopover on PlayRadio UK yesterday during Tommy’s show, where the familiar matters of freedom of speech were being hashed out in Boyd’s own inimitable way. I came on for a couple of minutes to discuss Beenie Man, a topic prompted by William Crawley’s article last week. (Incidentally, William links […]

 
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Tags: Free speech

Christmas in Fallujah

December 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Billy Joel is ‘retired’, but - as we learned recently from Garth Brooks - that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s given up music. For the first time since 1993, Joel has written a song which is being released as a single starting with iTunes tomorrow, called Christmas in Fallujah. But Billy won’t be on […]

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Tags: Music · War