Anti-Semitic ad on WLW and KRC sparks outrage. Federal law prevents stations from censoring candidat
Anti-Semitic ad on WLW (Cincinnati) and KRC sparks outrage. Federal law prevents stations from censoring candidates
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/02/anti-semitic-ad-wlw-and-wkrc-sparks-outrage-federal-law-prevents-stations-censoring-candidates/1857213002/
In the early morning on Thursday, Cincinnati's WLW began airing an anti-Semitic campaign ad in which a candidate spouted conspiracies involving "billionaire communist Jews."
Then the complaints started rolling in. The AM radio station faced a threatened boycott on social media.
The station has no choice, said Scott Reinhart, program manager for WLW-AM and 55KRC-AM.
Federal law prevents stations from refusing candidates ad time, even if the ad is racist or anti-Semitic and aired in the days following the massacre of worshipping Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Audio at link, too.
Jim Condit, Jr., a candidate for Congress running in the 2nd Congressional District, the seat currently held by Brad Wenstrup, a Republican from Cincinnati's Columbia Tusculum neighborhood.