Focus on whose family?

Working third shift I often turn to talk radio for companionship. In the Dayton,Ohio area that means WHIO. It's the local station that features Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the like. They also broadcast The Coast to Coast a.m. show from midnight to 5:00 am. I've emailed them a couple of times about something that bothers me. Several times a day they air spots from an organization called "Focus on the Family".

If you are not familiar with this organization click on the title of this post to take you to their website. Go ahead take your time: I'll wait............................................

You back? Great!

If you look around their site you'll have no trouble seeing that they are an extreme right wing organization with a conservative agenda. You will also notice that they anti-gay,anti-choice and anti-evolution. Normally I would just dismiss them as another group of bible thumping extremists peddling another flavor of crazy. But what bothers me is that according to the brief correspondence I had with WHIO, F.O.F does not pay for the airing of those spots. WHIO does it for gratis.

Doesn't that seem fundamentally wrong? Aren't radio stations licenced by the government? Shouldn't they at least put a a disclaimer with these little ignorance bombs?

Sign me:

a confused freethinker from Dayton

Emoose out