Alaska School DJ Off Air for Reagan Remark
.c The Associated Press
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - A disc jockey at a university radio station who turned a Sunday radio show into a ``celebration'' that Ronald Reagan ``was finally dead'' has been suspended.
The disc jockey, a University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate who goes by the call name ``Spider Bui,'' said his show was a reaction to the media's positive portrayal of Reagan after his death Saturday. Managers at KSUA-FM said the show was in poor taste and was put on without permission.
Neither the student nor station staff would reveal the student's real name.
No tape of the show was available. According to the disc jockey, he berated Reagan for his foreign policy in Latin America, Iraq and Afghanistan, and for what the student called a ``homophobic'' response to the AIDS epidemic.
``I said that I was sick of all of the media that was glorifying Reagan and rewriting history that was pretty despicable,'' he said. ``Basically, what the gist of the show was, it was a celebration that Ronald Reagan was dead, was finally dead.''
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