It already IS banned by law, and has been since the earliest days of radio. The people you so smugly sneer at are merely following the established procedures to have the law enforced. Their actions are no different from when someone calls 911 when they see a murder taking place.
It already IS banned by law, and has been since the earliest days of radio. The people you so smugly sneer at are merely following the established procedures to have the law enforced. Their actions are no different from when someone calls 911 when they see a murder taking place.Have you ever listened to the show? They don't use the "F-word", for example, instead saying "the F-word", literally. Trust me, the station and the syndication company have lawyers that review the letter of the law. They skirt it the way Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh do.
By the way, did you know that Rush Limbaugh defends Howard Stern's right to broadcast what he does? Ever wonder why? Part of it is principle to be sure, but part is knowing that if the moralizers ever take down Stern, he'll be targetted next.
By the way, the laws haven't been the same "since the earliest days of radio". They were greatly loosened in the early 80s. I'd say they were "liberalized", but it doesn't seem like the right word to use when the driving force behind it was Ronald Reagan's FCC appointees.
The gun grabbers, PC nuts, WoD freaks, the Prohibitionists of the early 20th century, and the censorship zealots of the late 19th all "followed the established procedures". That doesn't mean their causes were right or they shouldn't have been (or be) opposed as cranks.
-Eric