Word: outspokenness
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...text messaging to gather information, form virtual communities, exchange and spread ideas, or just vent. Instead, it's radio?particularly talk radio?that is proving the channel of choice, not least because all you need is a simple transistor radio and a phone. A new generation of outspoken radio-show hosts are not only airing their own contrarian views but are allowing we, the people, to speak out. Asia's talk-radio programs are giving societies reared on authoritarian regimes and schooled more in discipline than dissent a chance to participate in political and social dialogue with newfound confidence. After...
...Other talk-radio hosts have faced similar threats?and more?for their outspoken ways. In the mid-'80s, Jun Pala, a firebrand radio host in the southern Philippine city of Davao had his program interrupted when an assailant shot him in the recording booth. The gunman was believed to be a communist insurgent, angry at Pala's vocal anticommunist stance. This year, Pala was shot at again, this time by men in police uniforms. Although Pala escaped unscathed, two of his bodyguards were seriously injured. A fellow Filipino radio broadcaster wasn't so lucky. The same day Pala was attacked...
...part of the Bush administration's calculus?is its well-known penchant for message discipline. The success of cabinet members, it sometimes seems, is judged by how well they broadcast policies received whole from the White House, rather than by their advice and guidance in creating them. When the outspoken and off-message Paul O'Neill was fired from his post as Treasury Secretary last year, it didn't take a political scientist to predict the qualities that his successor would have: consistency and loyalty. At look at the candidates...
...They’ve been very outspoken in response to criticism,” Gilligan says. “I like to work in a place where I feel that sort of support. I like now being back on the edge...
When Summers began involving himself in schools’ affairs last year, he was seen as aggressive, outspoken and relentless—and some say this earned him the respect of faculty...