That's a good conversation once a month. I'm not sure it works on a regular basis. The strongly voiced opinions of nationally syndicated hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern and their counterparts on local stations agitate listeners but also get them thinking and responding, she said. That's what free speech is all about. Just think of talk radio with everyone being nice.
Talk radio needs some spice.
Some listeners, though, are setting limits to what the community should tolerate. After meeting with the task force and listening to Pierce's later shows, Anderson said he let the program's contract expire. The station also offered task force members free air time each day for a month to respond with their own message. The task force asked Kline and his wife, Carrie, to fill the slot with interviews they had conducted for a local oral history project. It wasn't all happiness and light, but we wanted people to know there's discrimination and how it hurts people.