Radio host suspended for airing anti-Palin protesters' numbers


By Julia O'Malley | Anchorage Daily News
Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke has been suspended for a week for broadcasting the phone number of women involved in organizing a protest against Sarah Palin.

The women later received threatening phone calls.

In a statement, KBYR-AM 700 station manager Justin McDonald said broadcasting the numbers last week was "breaking station policy." Burke will be suspended for one week without pay, he said.

"Though I do not agree with some of the comments he made, as a licensee, we attempt to respect everyone's First Amendment rights, including Eddie Burke's, our listeners' and our nonlisteners'," McDonald's statement said. "That does not mean I condone inciting violence or harm in any way to people wanting to voice their opinions with peaceful protest."


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Damn. That's hardly even a slap on the wrist for endangering lives.

I'm shocked anything was done at all.

The guy is a jerk and got a just punishment for divulging information that he did not have the authority to divulge. Were the people who had their telephone numbers revealed doing something that wasn't a public event, where their identities would be known anyways, he should have probably been fired or, at the minimum, have received a much longer suspension.

*edited to delete "should not have been" and replace it with "that he did...divulge"*