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oberliner

(58,724 posts) Mon Aug 6, 2018, 02:51 PM Aug 2018

Masked man enters radio station studio and shoots DJ in Wisconsin

Source: CNN

A man wearing a mask and hood entered a Wisconsin radio station early Sunday morning and opened fire on three disc jockeys in the broadcast studio, the station said.

WORT FM, a radio station based in Madison, said in a statement that witnesses said five gunshots were fired, injuring one DJ in the buttocks and shattering the glass between studios.

The injured DJ was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and later discharged, WORT said. No major injuries were reported and no arrest had been made in the case.

Madison Police responded to the shooting at 3:12 a.m. local time and found one person injured, according to a police incident report. Police said it appeared the shooting was not random and there was no risk to the general public.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/06/us/radio-station-shooting-wort/index.html

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Masked man enters radio station studio and shoots DJ in Wisconsin (Original Post) oberliner Aug 2018 OP

"no risk to the general public"? Personal? Political? Didn't like the playlist at 3 am? nt Snellius Aug 2018 #1

Police: Shooting at Madison Radio Station Does Not Appear to be Random oberliner Aug 2018 #3

Maybe ex-worker went postal? Snellius Aug 2018 #4

Hopefully they catch the perpetrator soon oberliner Aug 2018 #5

Apparently personal muriel_volestrangler Aug 2018 #9

Maybe heaven05 Aug 2018 #2

This is a non commercial community radio station LiberalArkie Aug 2018 #6

Part of Pacfica? Pacifica is outspokenly left. Shit! "Enemy of the People" attack? Snellius Aug 2018 #7

I doubt the one in the story is, but just about all the community radio LiberalArkie Aug 2018 #11

Wikipedia on WORT: "affiliate of the Pacifica network" Snellius Aug 2018 #12

After what happened years ago with Alan Berg BumRushDaShow Aug 2018 #8

. ret5hd Aug 2018 #10

LOL. You beat me to it! GulfCoast66 Aug 2018 #13

Thankfully, Cold War Spook Aug 2018 #14

Snellius

(6,881 posts)

1. "no risk to the general public"? Personal? Political? Didn't like the playlist at 3 am? nt

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 02:57 PM

Aug 2018

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

3. Police: Shooting at Madison Radio Station Does Not Appear to be Random

Reply to Snellius (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 02:59 PM

Aug 2018

Police said Sunday a shooting inside a community radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, doesn't appear to be random.

https://kstp.com/news/police-shooting-madison-wisconsin-radio-station-does-not-appear-random/5019311/

Snellius

(6,881 posts)

4. Maybe ex-worker went postal?

Reply to oberliner (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 03:08 PM

Aug 2018

But why ski mask and hood? Isn't that the point of going postal for revenge?

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

5. Hopefully they catch the perpetrator soon

Reply to Snellius (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 03:10 PM

Aug 2018

And we will theoretically learn more about what went down.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,336 posts)

9. Apparently personal

Reply to Snellius (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 03:47 PM

Aug 2018

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A shooting that wounded a disc jockey at a Wisconsin radio station appears to have been a targeted attack against a specific individual, police said Monday.

Sunday’s shooting at WORT-FM in Madison wasn’t a random attack or an act of violence targeting the media, according to police spokesman David Dexheimer.

http://ktar.com/story/2166826/police-look-for-suspect-in-radio-station-shooting/

MADISON - A shooting at a Madison radio station was not politically motivated or an attack on the media, police said.
...
Madison Police Department says it is confident it was not an act of violence committed against the media and has nothing to do with the "national dialogue on media."

"It's an unfortunate location for that to have happened," said Officer David Dexheimer. "I think it’s more coincidental at this point."
...
WORT's news director Molly Stentz said Monday that aside from prank calls, the radio station had not received any violent threats prior to the shooting.

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/06/madison-police-say-shooting-local-radio-station-not-attack-media/915644002/

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

2. Maybe

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 02:58 PM

Aug 2018

trumps actual war has started? Unhinged potus and his unhinged deplorables? This shit is getting real.

LiberalArkie

(15,722 posts)

6. This is a non commercial community radio station

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 03:14 PM

Aug 2018

Look up KPFT. on wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFT

And our community radio KABF. http://www.kabf.org/?page_id=170

Community radio is threatened all the time. KPFT has the distinction of being blown up twice.

Community radio stations usually have a interesting history

Snellius

(6,881 posts)

7. Part of Pacfica? Pacifica is outspokenly left. Shit! "Enemy of the People" attack?

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #6)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 03:22 PM

Aug 2018

This may be a big story.

LiberalArkie

(15,722 posts)

11. I doubt the one in the story is, but just about all the community radio

Reply to Snellius (Reply #7)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 05:20 PM

Aug 2018

stations that I have heard lean pretty far to the left, even our KABF being started with the help of ACORN.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)

12. Wikipedia on WORT: "affiliate of the Pacifica network"

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #11)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 06:04 PM

Aug 2018

WORT is an affiliate of the Pacifica network, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), and the Public Radio Satellite System, which is how it broadcasts programs like the BBC, supplied in the U.S. by American Public Media. The station is also a member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WORT

But sounds like just an alternative/folksy music station.
Pacifica in the 60s and 70s in California, where I'm from, was about as radical as you could get on public media in those days.