First Clear Channel is about money, period, and they lost a ton of it here...
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Stern's suspension was the second time in two days that Clear Channel has acted against a disc jockey. The company on Tuesday fired the DJ known as "Bubba the Love Sponge," whose show drew a record fine of $755,000 from the Federal Communications Commission. The program aired in four Florida cities and included graphic discussions about sex and drugs "designed to pander to, titillate and shock listeners," the FCC said.
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My contention is where do you draw the line?
One of my favorite Simpson's line goes something like this.
'Fox became a hardcore porn channel so gradually, I hardily noticed'.
So where do you draw said proverbial line? Hard core sex? Talking about hard core sex? Racism? Should there even be a line?
Mind you I am as worried about free speech as anyone, I know Liberals hate free speech unless it agrees with them, I've seen their reactions to it, and they have already tried to take down Limbaugh, Hannity and the like under the guise of 'fairness' in the media. But saying 'Howard Stern is a shock jock, his job is to shock, so shocking is ok' doesn't cut it.
The airwaves are 'publicly' owned and hence we have this issue. Perhaps there should be no standards at all, I am all for quality porn.