This is really a great story about fighting corporate right-wing media and achieving some measure of victory. A blogger named Spocko has been waging a campaign to get the ABC right-wing radio station KSFO (in San Francisco) to rein in its most vitriolic talk wingnut shock jocks. Just to give on example, radio host Melanie Morgan of KSFO has called for the execution of New York Times editor Bill Keller and fantasized about shooting Nancy Pelosi.

Spocko put together a series of the most offensive clips from KSFO and called KSFO advertisers to let them know they were supporting rhetoric that most of their customers would find offensive. Disney (which owns ABC) tried to shut down his site with strong arm legal tactics, but in the end, adevertiser pressure forced KSFO to modify its on-air guidelines. The New York Times picked up the story today:

In an unusual cap to a simmering controversy, four talk radio hosts at KSFO-AM themselves played the clips on Friday, which had, in some cases, drawn national attention for language considered racially insensitive, religiously intolerant or containing violent imagery. The broadcast contained the occasional carefully measured apology for language that “could have been put more elegantly,” as one host, Melanie Morgan, described her comment — “We’ve got a bull’s eye painted on her big wide laughing eyes” — about Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, who is from San Francisco. “But Ms. Morgan added that her words were obviously a political metaphor that had to be distorted by critics to appear violent.

Ms. Morgan said that the on-air talent had “been reissued guidelines from the company about violent rhetoric and we’ve reviewed those rules and we don’t believe that we have crossed any single line.” But the hosts were uniformly defiant against the bloggers, who were called “crackpots with keyboards” and accused of using “guerrilla tactics.”

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In an interview, Spocko, who described himself as being in his “late 40s and a communications professional,” said he was appalled by what he heard on KSFO. Among the advertisers Spocko contacted, and who have been reported in The San Francisco Chronicle to have stopped advertising at KSFO were Bank of America, MasterCard and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.