Friday, March 26, 2004
INDECENCY ISSUE BECOMING INDECENT
I've expressed my view before on the new focus on indecency on the airwaves. I know a lot of people may not understand completely my support for Howard Stern and the phoney issue that the FCC must protect the public airwaves. A lot of people have agreed with my stand and said to me their alternative is to turn on their XM satellite radio or watch more cable and satellite TV. I say to them mostly the same thing I'm about to tell you...a simple rhetorical question:
Who do you think licenses satellite bandwidth and regulates their use?
Sure enough, I open my browser today and find the following...
FCC Adopts New Rules for Satellite TV
The story is about the FCC beginning regulations on political and children's programming and some of the rules about advertising...but why stop there? I'm telling you the old way of thinking that the government can't regulate what you pay for in a subscriber-based service like satellite radio and TV are over. Point proven.
And how long do you think it'll be before "free papers" are regulated? The chief complaint about radio and over-the-air television is that a child or someone under age could come across something that might be indecent. As it happens, I was reviewing a copy of the Charleston City Paper (Girl Talk at the bottom of the page) for show material and I came across a story about anal sex. Of course, I read it...but then got to thinking...
Stay tuned...
I've expressed my view before on the new focus on indecency on the airwaves. I know a lot of people may not understand completely my support for Howard Stern and the phoney issue that the FCC must protect the public airwaves. A lot of people have agreed with my stand and said to me their alternative is to turn on their XM satellite radio or watch more cable and satellite TV. I say to them mostly the same thing I'm about to tell you...a simple rhetorical question:
Who do you think licenses satellite bandwidth and regulates their use?
Sure enough, I open my browser today and find the following...
FCC Adopts New Rules for Satellite TV
The story is about the FCC beginning regulations on political and children's programming and some of the rules about advertising...but why stop there? I'm telling you the old way of thinking that the government can't regulate what you pay for in a subscriber-based service like satellite radio and TV are over. Point proven.
And how long do you think it'll be before "free papers" are regulated? The chief complaint about radio and over-the-air television is that a child or someone under age could come across something that might be indecent. As it happens, I was reviewing a copy of the Charleston City Paper (Girl Talk at the bottom of the page) for show material and I came across a story about anal sex. Of course, I read it...but then got to thinking...
Stay tuned...
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