Story in yesterday’s Chicago Trib examining the questionable propriety of the nation’s largest radio station owner sponsoring pro-war-in-Iraq rallies:
In a move that has raised eyebrows in some legal and journalistic circles, Clear Channel radio stations in Atlanta, Cleveland, San Antonio, Cincinnati and other cities have sponsored rallies attended by up to 20,000 people. The events have served as a loud rebuttal to the more numerous but generally smaller anti-war rallies.
The sponsorship of large rallies by Clear Channel
stations is unique among major media companies, which
have confined their activities in the war debate to
reporting and occasionally commenting on the news. The
San Antonio-based broadcaster owns more than 1,200
stations in 50 states and the District of Columbia.