TO THE EDITOR:
I was surprised to hear that Chancellor Thorp recently requested that radio stations across the state not advertise or promote UNC sports during Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
I expected the chancellor to be more concerned with the immediate and critical tasks of managing major budget cuts, vast tuition increases and a damaging NCAA investigation.
If UNC is going to make a practice of meddling in the programming of various radio stations across North Carolina, I hope that in the interest of fairness and evenness that UNC is in the process of coming to a similar agreement with WCHL, the flagship station of the Tar Heel Sports Network.
For several years now, WCHL has carried the broadcasts of left-wing talker Ed Schultz, who makes hateful and outrageous comments on the public airwaves. In just May of last year he used the same degrading pejorative Limbaugh did by calling Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut” on his radio show.
The same righteous indignation we have seen over the past few weeks regarding Rush Radio vis-á-vis UNC sports broadcasts was nowhere to be found last May.
I call on all members of the UNC community to denounce all forms of “hate,” including Ed Schultz’s incendiary and vile comments, and demand that the UNC administration make a similar agreement with WCHL as it has with broadcasters of Limbaugh’s show.
J. N. Eick ’11
