"The public airwaves are an extension of the commons"
You are right...
If you don't like it, change the station? BS.
If we took that attitude, then ANYTHING in public would be OK.
If you drive down the highway and saw a billboard of
nude hookers, do you say " Gee, just don't look" ?
If two people are having sex in the park, just don't look?
I am all for private subscription to whatever turns one on, but not on the public airwaves, anymore then on a public road or park.
I think many Stern fans are going to be very angry about being forced to pay. Stern will learn something very important about the elasticity of demand. LOL
You are exactly right. I'm the mother of 4 daughters and 1 son and it seems like everywhere I turn, somebody is trying to teach them something that is inappropriate for their ages. I can't even go into a book store without some kind of sex book right on the shelf at their eye level. Alot of people want their kids to grow up really fast and let them watch inappropriate movies, tv shows and the like but I'm not one of them. My husband and I were at a restaurant recently with our children and there was a movie on the big tv that they had on. It got very raunchy, my 9 year old daughter notices it and says, "hey mom, what are they doing on the tv?" I had to hide her eyes and ask the waiter to turn the channel. This was a family, home cooking type restaurant. What happened to my rights as a mother, not to have my children subjected to smut at a family restaurant?