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Piltdown
Skeptic Friend
USA
312 Posts |
 Posted - 06/27/2002 : 17:04:35
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at least for the time being. I've mentioned several times that I have been a regular guest on the Dixon Platt show ("The South Plain's Voice of Reason"), a local radio call-in program on KJTV-950 AM.
Today, the show's host, Dixon Platt, sent out an e-mail announcing that the show has been cancelled and he has essentially been fired since this was his only gig at KJTV. He was informed of this at the end of yesterday's show and did not even have a chance to say good-bye to his audience. The station managers gave low profitability as the reason for the cancellation. They apparently are making some changes in afternoon programming that do not include Dixon and the Voice of Reason. I guess that even a relatively light-hearted treatment of substantial issues is not profitable enough, even though the program was quite popular by most accounts.
Mr. Platt himself is personally very conservative, a Christian fundamentalist in fact, but he has always made a real effort to give a fair hearing to other viewpoints. The show was always lively and informative, and it had a very loyal listenership. I don't know what the replacement will be, but "Voice of Reason" did preempt the final hour of right-wing firebrand Sean Hannity's nationally syndicated show, so we will probably be hearing even more of Mr. Hannity.
Dixon Platt gave me a real chance to present the skeptic viewpoint on radio, a great rarity in that credulous, Art Bell-dominated medium. I suspect that another local station will pick up the Dixon Platt show and we will continue where we left off. I hope so, anyway.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
-Robert Lindner
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
925 Posts |
 Posted - 06/27/2002 : 20:57:29 [Permalink]
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They'll want Dixon back soon enough. This pledge brouhaha is going to be huge. And besides, Hannity's head is going to explode any day now because bullshit takes up far more space than reason.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2002 : 02:59:25 [Permalink]
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Piltdown,
I can put you in contact with the guy that runs Freethought radio on the web. At least he'd hear your side of things.
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...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young |
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