ZD – the gedolom don’t turn on the radio…the askanim “tell” them.
You’re mistaken – there are Gedolim and Chassidishe rebbes that do listen to radio news. And more importantly, they listen to the voices of the community – to depict our gedolim as naive or uninformed is wrong. Many of the proclamations put out in the name of gedolim are simply lies. The gedolim are our einei haeida – not a mouth piece to issue proclamations. There are plenty of communal issues that as L”UL pointed out the gedolim don’t “speak out” against – the people who commit these acts of sinaas chinum (attacking Chareidi soldiers, dati leumi girls) often don’t have leaders and they aren’t part of the mainstream chareidi/chassidish community even if they look like they are. I think it’s self-understood that we don’t beat up, spit on other Yidden – so what’s there more to say unless you’re mistskingly assuming that these criminals have a mainstream chareidi viewpoint, which they don’t.