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Shock Jocks and Conservatives 'Fear' FCC Crackdown 4/20/2004 No longer will Americans tolerate media's race to the bottom when it comes to indecency on the people's airwaves. Imagine someone pollutes your water and air and says, "If you don't like it, just stop drinking and breathing." Insolent radio shock jocks and TV programmers who pollute our public airwaves, violate the public trust and dismiss our public interest, tell us to "just turn the dial." Worse yet, those who've caused their broadcasters to be fined numerous times by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for indecency violations are whining about not knowing what indecency means. Regrettably, some conservative talk radio hosts and political pundits who should know better are giving cover to shock jocks Howard Stern, Erich "Mancow" Muller and others who are feigning ignorance about what's indecent.
They're called "public airwaves" because they belong to the public. No one has a right to a radio or television broadcast license-a license is a privilege held in trust for the public interest. No one has a right to come into our homes via the public airwaves and behave like a pig in our parlor. [more ...]
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