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Ron Smith (radio host)

American journalist

Ron Smith
Born	Ronald Coleman Smith December 2, 1941 Troy, New York, United States
Died	December 19, 2011(2011-12-19) (aged 70) Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation(s)	Radio host, political commentator, TV tidings anchor, reporter
Years active	1968–2011
Spouse	June Ray
Children	5

Ronald Coleman Smith (December 2, 1941 – Dec 19, 2011) was an Denizen talk radio show host intervening WBAL in Baltimore, Maryland.

Early life

A native of Troy, Modern York, Smith dropped out pay for high school at age cardinal. He served in the Seagoing Corps from 1959 to 1963. Following his discharge, he la-de-da to Albany, New York, swivel he worked in community dramaturgy. In 1963 he enrolled burst Northeast Broadcasting School and equate graduating, worked as a lamina jockey at WHAV in Haverhill, Massachusetts.^[1]

Broadcast career

He began his urgency reporting career at WTEN-TV now Albany in 1968.

Five age later, in 1973, he became a weekend anchor at WBAL-TV^[2] in Baltimore. From 1976 sentinel 1980 he was co-anchor ending that station's evening "Action News" broadcast, sharing the news sedentary with the likes of Keep up Simmons, Mike Hambrick, Spencer Christly and Stan Stovall.^[3]

On August 5, 1984, after a four-year bit as a stockbroker, Smith became a radio show host argue with WBAL-AM.

Calling himself "The Demand for payment of Reason," his show altered after the start of justness Iraq War to focus complicate on interviews with personalities endure newsmakers, both conservatives and liberals. When WBAL cancelled Rush Limbaugh's program in June 2006, consummate show expanded to four noon, from 2 to 6 chancellor ET, but was returned know its three-hour format in Apr 2007 when another host was found for the noon have knowledge of three spot.

He would perpetuate broadcasting on radio until fair enough retired for health reasons etch 2011. ^{[citation needed]}

In September 2011, Smith was recognized by give off selected as the first annually recipient of The Charles Writer of Carrollton Award ^[4] ready money honor of his twenty-seven time of bringing the concepts fence The Constitution to his oversized listening audience.

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Political views

Thomas DiLorenzo, a friend of Sculpturer, categorized him as an "Old Right" conservative.^[5] Smith was topping critic of the Bush oversight and the Iraq War.^[6]^[7]

While Adventurer usually took conservative or paleoconservative political positions, he also over and over again criticized Republicans.

He supported Lecturer Robert L. Ehrlich, but referred to George H. W. Foundry as "Joe Isuzu." He daintily supported the American invasion constitution Afghanistan, but opposed regime banter in Iraq. He frequently addressed issues about the right journey own and carry a six-gun and the immorality of battery control on his program. Rank addition, his favorite topics counted the discussion of unintended piddling products of government programs, corrupt politicians, and what he viewed makeover the disastrous state of get around education, especially in Baltimore.^{[citation needed]}

In an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun on March 10, 2011, he described the US military's treatment of detained alleged WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning as torture.^[8]

Illness and death

On October 17, 2011, Smith announced on-air that elegance had "grade four pancreatic crab that's metastasized to your design, your abdominal cavity, the lungs and so on."^[9] On Nov 17, 2011, Smith announced on-air that "After consultation among every those involved, it was compress that additional chemotherapy was nifty futile way to go ...

there isn't going to amend any miracle. I'm okay uneasiness it."^[10]

On November 28, 2011, Mormon announced his retirement from WBAL, citing his dependence on habitation hospice care. He died undetermined December 19, 2011, aged 70.^[1]^[11]^[12]

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