Thursday, October 16, 2008
Blast from the past
Posted By Max Brantley on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Walker Lundy, who some might remember for his stint as executive editor of the old Arkansas Gazette, pops up with an op-ed in the Charlotte Observer about a local right-wing radio station and its listeners' tirades against Barack Obama. Lundy learns that catering to the wingnuts is good business for radio stations. Duh. But he is "troubled" by the "unrelenting right-wing harangues."
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