Dole Aide Apologizes for KCRW-FM Remark
Walt Riker, press secretary to Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) apologized Sunday for having called Santa Monica’s KCRW-FM (89.9), a “dwarf radio station” last week in response to protests from station officials and listeners about the hold that Dole’s office has put on funding bill for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
“I was trying to make the point that the recession and the budget dwarfed the issue of public broadcasting, but it came out wrong,” Riker said.
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