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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally posted by bender
If I stop and take a look at a global pic. here, I notice that almost every country has a state run media station eg: the BBC the US who is the largest exporter of media has no national tv or radio station. Radio Free Europe isn't the exclusive domain of the US, so keeping with the BBC they have a responsibility to the people of the nation of fair reporting and a standard of what it broadcasts. This standard seems to be of a higher level then that of other stations, and has to be kept that way.
The US has no such thing so if one broadcaster shows a naked girl then the door is open for the rest to do so, and the same applies to the ads that they run.
If they show an ad that has a hidden msg, and they know it then the door is open for the next guy to drop his standards and so it goes.
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The US does have something to monitor the airwaves, the FCC.
The FCC regularly monitors broadcasts for content. Howard Stern would get fined regularly in the 90's.
Not only do they check the normal commnications channels, but also all radio frequencies including pirate radio stations. It may not happen immediately but they will eventually find someone who transmits regularly.
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