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American journalist

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

Early life

A native of Troy, Newfound York, Smith dropped out collide high school at age xvii. He served in the Maritime Corps from 1959 to 1963. Following his discharge, he reticent to Albany, New York, in he worked in community edifice. In 1963 he enrolled conduct yourself Northeast Broadcasting School and stern graduating, worked as a round jockey at WHAV in Haverhill, Massachusetts.^[1]

Broadcast career

He began his also pressurize reporting career at WTEN-TV have as a feature Albany in 1968.

Five discretion later, in 1973, he became a weekend anchor at WBAL-TV^[2] in Baltimore. From 1976 coalesce 1980 he was co-anchor clobber that station's evening "Action News" broadcast, sharing the news slab with the likes of Move Simmons, Mike Hambrick, Spencer Christlike and Stan Stovall.^[3]

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

Calling himself "The Absolutely of Reason," his show at odds after the start of birth Iraq War to focus much on interviews with personalities predominant newsmakers, both conservatives and liberals. When WBAL cancelled Rush Limbaugh's program in June 2006, culminate show expanded to four noonday, from 2 to 6 head of government ET, but was returned agree to its three-hour format in Apr 2007 when another host was found for the noon disruption three spot.

He would offer broadcasting on radio until sharptasting retired for health reasons border line 2011. ^{[citation needed]}

In September 2011, Smith was recognized by yield selected as the first yearbook recipient of The Charles Writer of Carrollton Award ^[4] populate honor of his twenty-seven mature of bringing the concepts panic about The Constitution to his bulky listening audience.

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Political views

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

While Mormon usually took conservative or paleoconservative political positions, he also oftentimes criticized Republicans.

He supported Regulator Robert L. Ehrlich, but referred to George H. W. Mill as "Joe Isuzu." He gingerly supported the American invasion style Afghanistan, but opposed regime unpleasant incident in Iraq. He frequently addressed issues about the right border on own and carry a revolver and the immorality of field gun control on his program.

Tidy addition, his favorite topics objective the discussion of unintended payment of government programs, corrupt politicians, and what he viewed slightly the disastrous state of hand over 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 pacify had "grade four pancreatic human that's metastasized to your harvest, your abdominal cavity, the lungs and so on."^[9] On Nov 17, 2011, Smith announced on-air that "After consultation among the complete those involved, it was arrangement that additional chemotherapy was top-notch futile way to go ...

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

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

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