Terrorist sympathizer and convicted felon Lynn Stewart can now add one more item to her c.v.: board member of a radio station
WBAI-FM listeners have elected disbarred civil-rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to the radical radio station’s local board of directors — although the prison term she’s serving will keep her from attending meetings any time soon.
Stewart, 70, who’s doing time for helping a jailed terror leader communicate with his followers, was the second-highest vote getter out of 44 candidates, according to the WBAI Web site.
The fact that Lynn Stewart might soon be doing her Emma Goldman impersonation from a position of influence over a radio station’s content is an interesting story in and of itself. What make this more intriguing is wondering how Ms. Stewart will attend her meetings by proxy while she sits in Federal Penitentiary.
What’s rumpus about Lynn, you ask? Well, all she did was this.
But, the thing Big Journalism readers need to take from this cautionary tale is: When you hear President Obama’s FCC appointees proclaim their interest in more local control over radio stations, it is their way of enacting a fairness doctrine without actually enacting a fairness doctrine. Radio Station Board Member Lynn Stewart needs to become the poster child for this kind of “Local Control.”
Because, after all, your local radio station currently featuring Rush or Glenn Beck could soon be under the local influence of a Lynn Stewart on its board… or this guy.