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LONDON, Ontario, December 20, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A radio station owned by Canadian media giant Corus Entertainment told a popular radio host he can’t speak at the annual March for Life banquet because it would be “too divisive and polarizing” and not “on brand for the station,” LifeSiteNews has learned.
Andrew Lawton told Campaign Life Coalition in an email he was declining an invitation to be keynote speaker at the May 2018 March for Life’s Rose Dinner.
Lawton turned down the offer because his employer, Global Radio 980 CFPL, “has decided it would be ‘too divisive and polarizing’ for me to speak at a pro-life event, and not ‘on brand for the station’,” he wrote in the email obtained by LifeSiteNews.
Global Radio 980 CFPL is owned by Toronto-based media conglomerate Corus Entertainment, which acquired Global Television Network and affiliated radio stations when it bought Shaw Media in early 2016.
LifeSiteNews contacted Global Radio 980 CFPL program director Trudy Shaw, but did not hear back by deadline.
LifeSiteNews also contacted Corus Entertainment, and spoke to the assistant to Shaw’s manager Ward Smith, but did not hear back from Smith by deadline.
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