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Stern And The FCC

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Froderik:
Antbody been paying attention to this? It's coming down to Howard vs. the Christian Right. They're lobbying the FCC to try to get him canceled. A bunch of old ladies and idiots stuffing envelopes. Same old moral majority kind of crap.  :evil:

Cayo Hueso:
yeah, even Rush is coming to Howard's defense on this one.  I don't think Howard's even all that funny anymore, but COME ON....if you don't like what he's saying CHANGE THE FUCKING CHANNEL!!  When will people get that free speech means free for EVERYONE, not just the people who promote the religious right agenda?  STOP TELLING ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE, WHAT TO LISTEN TO, WHAT I CAN OR CANNOT PUT INTO MY BODY, WHAT TO WATCH, WHAT TO READ..ETC. ETC. ETC.
You can lead a camel to water but you can't make it stink (any more than it already does)
-- Job

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Cayo Hueso:
I was driving out to pick up my daughter tonight, listening to the radio.  It was a beautiful night.  I was headed out to the beach, watched the moonrise, music was great...all was right with the world for a few short moments.  Pink Floyd's "Money" was playing on 107.3 (Tampa Bay).  I was singing along with it, then when it gets to: 'Money, it's a hit.  Don't give me that do good good bullshit'....they bleeped out shit.  :eek:  I couldn't believe it.  12:30 in the morning on a Friday night (yes, I see the contradiction in terms), they've NEVER bleeped out anything until now that I know of and all of a sudden shit is taken out of the song.  Have we really come to this point???  I just think it's stupid beyond belief.  What the hell is happening to the world?

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Antigen:
CC has long been showing signs of dementia. They're the ones who pulled the Dixie Chix and a long list of songs off their playlists when Dübya decided to start promoting war.

So now, we've got Tommy Chong in a cage and radio ppl all over the country shaking in thier boots while Kenny Boy, John Poindexter and Henry Kissenger dine out on their fame. I can only hope that maybe this will wake some people up to the nature and character of the people we've got running the show.




Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its
best state is but a necessary evil ---in its worst state an
intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same
miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without
government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we
furnish the means by which we suffer!


Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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RTP2003:
Clear Channel has sucked for a long time now. They not only are kissing the asses of the religious right, etc. with their current round of censorship, but for years now have been manipulating artists to play at venues they have a major stake in, and if the artists refuse and play another venue, Clear Channel will punish them with reduced or no airplay.  Combine these practices with the fact that they are the main perps behind the nationwide homogenization and generification of radio stations nationwide, and you will see why I am so disgusted with Clear Channel.  Radio used to have a local or regional flavor, independent programming directors, and DJs who were knowledgeable about music.  No more.
Deregulation in the 80s started the trend, and Clear Channel carried it out to its logical conclusion.  Corporate radio sucks.  You have essentially the same stations in every market in the country. I remember Rock and Roll radio, before playlists became so rigid and bland, repetitive and boring.  Clear Channel and their ilk have destroyed what was once a fine American institution.  RIP Rock and Roll radio.

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