Disc Jockeys at Clear Channel stations have been encouraging car-driving listeners to run cyclists off the road, The Chicago Tribune reports. This is so disgusting its hard for me to even comment on this news, except that Clear Channel, with its ties to the Bush clan and its anti-Dixie Chicks rallies, would encourage listeners to violently attack persons using an environmentally friendly form of transportation or, at least, pass off violent calls to action as "animated banter."
Yep, that's pretty damned evil.
On an extremely distantly related note: I happened to stumble across a factoid from State Farm Insurance that two of the top ten most dangerous intersections in the country are in Tulsa.
You'll probably think that this is part of my bad old ragging-on-Oklahoma habit but no, that's not my intention, just sharing some home-town news. Philly is the other city with two intersections in the top ten. Texas is represented by one in Plano, and Metairie, La., is a surprising entry in 9th place; who knew that Metairie had enough cars for them banging into one another?
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle at October 23, 2003 05:43 PMRound Rock has an annual (noncompetitive) bike race, the Outlaw Trail 100. Austin's KVET--which proudly announces its Clear Channel ownership--was one of the sponsors this year. (Maybe every year; this was the first time I participated.)
Possibly KVET is violating some sort of "attack the cyclists" corporate directive?
Posted by: David E Hollingsworth at October 28, 2003 08:40 AMI'm assuming you've seen this?
In Oslo, Clear Channel actually sponsors a program where people can purchase a "City Bike" pass for about 7 bucks and get nearly unlimited access to several hundred bikes placed in racks in various convenient areas around the central part of the city. Each bike has a large ad on its rear end. Here's a picture of the set-up. Even though it costs a pittance to get access to these bikes, I'd much rather walk for half an hour than give Clear Channel one red øre of my hard-earned money.
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