On the January 11 broadcast of San Franciscio radio station KSFO's Morning Show, co-host Melanie Morgan lashed out over the controversy surrounding Spocko, a Bay Area-based blogger who last year attempted to spotlight the racist and violent rhetoric common to Morgan and other KSFO hosts. Spocko highlighted examples of the hosts' inflammatory remarks on his weblog and in letters to various KSFO advertisers. But as numerous blogs have noted and as Media Matters for America documented, after several major sponsors reportedly pulled their ads from the station, ABC, Inc., which owns KSFO, apparently issued a cease-and-desist letter in December that ultimately led Spocko's Internet hosting service to shut down his blog. Morgan confirmed that "a couple of folks [advertisers] ... have cancelled on us, but we've had other new advertisers coming online."
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