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Last night's debate was broadcast on local cable news stations around the Bay State...
...Russ & Bo Show, a talk-radio program broadcast in the evening over WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, usually concerns itself with "women and beer," as one of the hosts, Russ Rollins, puts it. But on Sept. 25, the show addressed the subject of child abuse, commemorating the death exactly 14 years earlier of Ursula Sunshine Assaid. When she was five years old, Ursula was tortured and killed by her mother's boyfriend, Donald McDougall. The murder still causes bitterness in Orlando, and on the anniversary, the Russ & Bo Show devoted five hours to it. Between phone calls, Rollins graphically described...
...Barr, McDougall and 200 other inmates were in the prison yard after dinner, when Barr took the steel post used in a game of horseshoes and beat McDougall to death with it. Prison officials say they had put McDougall under protective custody on the night of the Russ & Bo broadcast because inmates who had been listening told them that a caller had offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who killed McDougall. After five days in custody, McDougall insisted on being released. That evening he was murdered...
...talk radio play a role in McDougall's death? The station says there was no mention of a bounty on the broadcast, but it will not release a tape. Whether or not a reward was offered, the show was highly charged and emotional, and it is certain that Barr was listening. His attorney, Rex Dimmig, said, "Barr advised me that he did in fact listen to at least portions of the radio show. It was on the radio in the dorm that he was in. There was conversation among the inmates about the radio show...
RICHARD ZOGLIN primed himself for writing this week's cover story by immersing himself in news media: tabloids, broadsheets, news radio, talk radio, broadcast TV, cable TV, the Internet. Then, last Monday, he tried an experiment: from 7 a.m. until after midnight he did nothing but watch, read and listen to news, everywhere he could find it, about the presidential debate. "It was mind boggling. By the end of the day, my head was spinning," says Zoglin, a veteran press and TV critic whose 10 previous TIME cover subjects include David Letterman, Diane Sawyer and Bill Cosby. He also wrote...