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  • Rhode Island governor bans state employees from talk radio

    01/12/2011 5:58:09 AM PST · by Steve495 · 17 replies
    Radio Vice Online ^ | Jan. 12, 2011 | Steve McGough
    Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I.) will soon send out a directive that state employees may not call into or spend any time on talk radio during state time. Chafee doesn’t think state resources should be used for “ratings driven, for-profit programming.” NPR of course, will be exempt. But is this really a problem in Rhode Island? Has there been some sort of epidemic of state workers ignoring their responsibilities and showing up on talk radio? A very small percentage of listeners actually call into talk shows, and of those callers a minuscule number of them are state workers on...