In the wake of Rush Limbaugh’s controversial comments, the N&O reports liberal activists are urging UNC to cut ties with Raleigh radio station WRDU, which broadcasts Tar Heel basketball games, as does its Clear Channel sister station, Greensboro-based WPTI.
On Monday, James Protzman, a liberal blogger for BlueNC.org, spoke out about UNC’s association with Rush Radio and emailed UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp asking him to rethink the relationship.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense for the flagship university of North Carolina to be associating itself with the kinds of things we hear on Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh,” Protzman said.
Protzman, who attended graduate school at UNC and whose wife, Jane Brown, is on the journalism faculty at the school, said he hadn’t gotten a response from anyone at the university. There also are petitions and a movement on Facebook and Twitter to put pressure on UNC to reconsider its agreement with Rush Radio, he said.
UNC responds here. I’m not a Tar Heels fan, but I love ACC hoops, so I’ll listen to any game I can find on the radio. Still, my heart wouldn’t be broken if Rush Radio starting broadcasting the Wolfpack….
