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I quit my job at Cumulus Media because I won’t be a party to hate speech

I was a chief engineer for Cumulus Media until a couple of months ago when the company decided to begin airing Matt Walsh. I took my issue with this change all the way to the CEO (Mary Berner) for two months after I got the memo about the change. I was literally the person whose job it was to program the satellite receiver and automation system to make the program air on my local “news/talk” station. I finally resigned when they made it clear that hate propaganda makes too much money and they weren't giving it up. The first day Matt Walsh aired, within the first 15 minutes he stated: “I will find many more ways to upset you in 2023. I guarantee no question about it. Except that if I could just clarify one thing. I am not going to move on from or forget what you call my…


I was a chief engineer for Cumulus Media until a couple of months ago when the company decided to begin airing Matt Walsh. I took my issue with this change all the way to the CEO (Mary Berner) for two months after I got the memo about the change. I was literally the person whose job it was to program the satellite receiver and automation system to make the program air on my local “news/talk” station.

I finally resigned when they made it clear that hate propaganda makes too much money and they weren't giving it up. The first day Matt Walsh aired, within the first 15 minutes he stated:

“I will find many more ways to upset you in 2023. I guarantee no question about it. Except that if I could just clarify one thing. I am not going to move on from or forget what you call my anti trans hysteria quote unquote, until until the trans movement has been totally and completely destroyed. That much I can promise you. I want it to be completely laying in ash and ruin. That's what I want.”

Over a number of weeks leading up to the show airing, I showed them many other instances where Matt Walsh has incited violence against trans people. They don't care. Ironically, Mary Berner apparently has a child who is trans. Money > Family apparently.

There were also transphobic posts left by employees who happened to be conservative talk show hosts that were left in the “DEI Safe Space” company forum, including comments disparaging me as a trans person personally, and they were left to stand, not deleted and no disciplinary action was taken.

You can find a list of local Cumulus Media stations here: https://www.cumulusmedia.com/listen/station-finder/

If you listen to terrestrial radio, their stations are easily identifiable at the top of the hour after the legal ID, as most include “A Cumulus Media Station” after the ID.

Let their advertisers know you will not spend money with them until they stop buying on Cumulus Media stations. We need to hit these hate-propaganda spreading media companies where it hurts.

You should also know that Cumulus Media owns Westwood One, which is a media distribution company that syndicates Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro and many other hate-artists.

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