Posted on 02/06/2005 3:00:42 PM PST by Willie Green
Somehow, this doesn't come as a surprise.
Free-thinkers - unless they're not on The Agenda.
Good for the FCC to seek out and destroy the Left Wing Pirate radio stations.
Knoxville First Amendment Radio, or KFAR (pronounced "kay-far"), was an unapologetic voice of unlicensed "pirate radio" activism, freewheeling conversation, alternative news like "Democracy Now!" and "Free Speech Radio News" and music since 2001.
But Federal Communications Commission agents and U.S. marshals emptied the station's graffiti-decorated trailer - a former crack house on a hilltop near the University of Tennessee - of radio gear Sept. 14. A poster of Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary, remains on a control room wall.
All ye who suppose that the First Amendment is applicable to broadcasting, take note.And journalism which does not have First Amendment protection is inherently elitist and illegitimate.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
Hope you are just as jubilant when right wing stations are shut down.
The Constitution does not provide for a levy on free speech, even though the feds have somehow turned this into yet another tax base.
Wise up. An unlicensed radio station, be it left OR right wing, has no business broadcasting. And it isn't like KFAR was raided by storm troopers or something, they were warned multiple times about the illegal nature of their broadcasting operation. They chose to thumb their nose at the law, and they were shut down and rightly so. And I haven't even touched the public safety issue of unlicensed radio (or TV) broadcasting.
>Hope you are just as jubilant when right wing stations are shut down.
There are right wing stations? There are the some extremist nut cases who broadcast on short wave--these guys are hardly mainstream conservatives--but who is spreading the word on FM? All the "community" stations I've heard and heard of strictly program Berkeley-Maoist propaganda.
There are pirate, or I should say, unlicensed stations here in Boston...but they are on the extended (1600-1700) AM band, run by Caribs and mostly music. You won't hear them out in Framingham.
And journalism which does not have First Amendment protection is inherently elitist and illegitimate.
No matter how much you pay for the property, you do not own that property unless you have gotten deed for it from the Government.
And no matter how much you have paid for the equipment you do not own a radio stations unless you have a governmetn issued license for that radio station.
If you don't have an automobile license you can't even drive around shouting out the car window.
Try going to a public place with a bull horn and start making your freedom of speech rant. You're free speech is disturbing the peace.
You do not and have never had a constitutional right to all methods of speech delivery. In fact you can't even print a newspaper and put them in peoples mail boxes unless you buy the postage and have the post office deliver your papers.
You can't use radio bandwith you do not have authority to use, and you can't use mail boxes to deliver your newspaper. If you want to reach people using radio waves you have to get a license. If you want to reach people using a newspaper and their mail boxes you have to buy the stamps and have the government deliver the message.
Using illegal methods of delivery is not free speech. It is criminal theft of property.
This method was popularly used by college radio stations and people highly versed in radio technology. I know this because I got my "start" in radio announcing at the age of 16, having known one of these "geeks"; later, I worked at a college radio station which employed this technology, before going into commercial broadcasting.
I haven't kept track of this and was just wondering whether this is still done. Anyone know?
Can we get a translator on isle 7?
He came on at midnight right after a black gospel program and began each show with a commercial for 8x10 color autographed pictures of Jesus Christ
Why? Who owns air? Tell me why this is not just another levy by the government to collect tax on something it doesn't own, like the shed in your back yard.
'Tis called 'carrier current' and it's still a viable method of small-area AM broadcasting. Doesn't pass through transformers though, so you WILL have a rather limited area unless you have several transmitters.
BTTT
"Using illegal methods of delivery is not free speech. It is criminal theft of property"
Well, I don't know about theft, but it's not a good idea to let unlicensed stations operate unmolested, because then you'll soon have chaos.
That said, LPFM is a great idea, as "conventional" FM stations (combined into large companies and greatly automated) do not provide the value to their respective communities as was originally intended.
The NAB is a little too cartel-like in their effective opposition to LPFM......but they have a lot of experience greasing the political machine.
I went XM 6 months ago and hardly ever touch the FM dial anymore, still, there is no way local stations operated at low power could hurt the communities they serve.
The FCC will eventually figure out how to make it happen despite the bought politicians that are preventing it now.
Finally, a sane person. I thought I was alone.
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