Cumulus Media, the nation’s largest radio talk show company, last week ordered its radio hosts not to continue to promote election conspiracy theories or face termination.
Cumulus Media, the nation’s largest radio talk show company with several of the most popular right-wing talk shows in the country, ordered its radio hosts last week not to continue to promote election conspiracy theories or they will be fired. Mark Levin and Dan Bongino, well-known conservative radio personalities who support Trump, are both radio hosts of Cumulus Media.
The Washington Post reported on 11 November that the right-wing radio hosts of Cumulus Media have been promoting election conspiracy theories and creating anger among listeners for months, but now the radio executives have suddenly changed direction and ordered the hosts not to continue to claim that President Trump’s election results were stolen.
The newspaper reported that on the day the pro-Trump crowd took over the Capitol, a top executive of Cumulus Media issued an order on the 6th, asking its radio hosts to stop spreading election conspiracy theories.
We need to calm the country down now,” Brian Philips, Cumulus Media’s deputy director of programming and content operations, wrote in an internal memo.
The memo also said, “Statements claiming that ‘the election is not over’ will not be allowed because the election controversy was resolved a long time ago and there is absolutely no alternative path as to why the election results.
Phillips told the hosts of his radio show, “If you violate this rule, you will be fired immediately.
A spokesman for Cumulus Media did not comment on the Washington Post report.
Cumulus Media, headquartered in Atlanta, has 416 radio stations in 84 locations across the United States, including the largest local news and talk stations, such as WMAL in Washington, D.C., KABC in Los Angeles, WLS in Chicago, and KGO in San Francisco.
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