The Workermonkey

Thursday, February 26, 2004

These people are getting out of control. 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/26/2004 11:59:00 AM

Does anyone here listen to Howard stern? Today clear channel has announced that it will stop broadcasting Sterns show on all of its radio stations. The show was still broadcast today from all other channels, including our own WCCC 106.9, but he’s been taken off the air all around the country. The reasons sited were for inappropriate and vulgar language. Read this article on it from CNN. These people need to be stopped. This nazi like control over the media and what’s deemed appropriate and what’s not is disgusting. Today on my way to work I listened to Bax and O’Brien on Rock 102.1 and they had also been told to clean it up or they would be canned. Their show is in no way vulgar or obscene. Although I don't like him myself, (mostly because he's a retard) Bubba the Love Sponge was fired yesterday by clear channel for "making inappropriate comments". Where do they draw the line? When does this stop? Unless people start tuning off their radios and stop buying the products associated with the stations there is no better form of protest. These people need to be hit where it hurts them the most. Their wallets. We as a society also need to make sure we don't let these things become problems in the first place.
This whole controversy started with Janet Jackson at the superbowl. A boob. One fucking boob caused all this. It wasn't even a whole boob, and there was no nipple involved, that too had been covered up. Then the FCC and congress decided that this was too obscene for we the people to experience. This fucking thing actually made it to congress and representatives from CBS, MTV, Viacom, Clear Channel and any other company associated with the parent company were called before the government and scolded like a bunch of children. Now that the government has put the fear of god into them they come down on everyone, issuing statements that any on-air personalities who cross the line will be fired and so will the general managers of the stations they work for. This is not freedom of expression; this is not freedom of the press. This in no way betters our society.
The point of government is not to tell us what is right or wrong. They have no business interfering in our everyday lives. When the FCC starts over regulating what we are allowed to see and hear in the media, we've lost. This will no longer become a free society. This will be presidents bush's communist America. The scary thing is that people are willing to sit back and let it happen. People rationally sit in their big offices and make these decisions.
Doesn't our government have anything better to do than scold our broadcasters over a partially exposed nipple? There is more sex and skin in any one of the victoria's secret commercials. These are allowed to continue but an accidental nipple slip (although still covered) has brought our country to its knees. If something of this magnitude doesn't at least get under your skin than I feel sorry for you. You’ve lost you soul and have simply bent over and taken a giant one up the ass. We are not mindless drones simply put on this planet to serve our government and pay taxes. And until we the people stand up for our rights this country will be lost to giant CEO's and wayward members of our government. STOP VOTING FOR THESE PEOPLE! Until we change the people who make these decisions we are all screwed and this will not end.

I beg you. Don't vote Bush.

Janet Jackson should be the one scolded for her actions. Not the broadcasting media. Or the American people.

Thank you and goodnight.

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