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The Friday after the election, I turned on the radio (KPOJ) to find two lunkheads babbling about sports and no sign of Carl in the Morning, my normal intellectual & political pick-me-up about local and national events. If this were only about profits, I think the station owners would have given some warning and offered listeners some means of keeping the show going as well. But I think the real story is that right-wing-nut media moguls recognize the role of such programs in defeating their candidates and bills. This is a violation of FCC rules: the airwaves are on loan from We the People to media companies as long as they serve us. But increasingly the airwaves are being used to dumb us down, obfuscate and distract. We're not standing for it here and our state senators have actually gotten involved. I urge you to demand the same.