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Originally posted by Rudey
Perhaps you'd like to answer my questions at some point as well...if you get the chance. Can you define indecency? Can they? They haven't yet.
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No, I wouldn't like to answer your questions, because I'm not entitled to. I am neither a Member of Congress nor do I sit on, or work for, the FCC.
I don't pretend to be a member of the Moralty Police, but I can define indecency for myself, and frankly, Stern crosses that line. But, I would not propose to define it for you or anyone else. On the other hand, I guess Congress feels that they have that right and authority. If they haven't defined it yet, it's obvious that they are in the process.
I was taught, though, that the use, for profit or not, of the "public's airwaves" was a privilege granted by the government to broadcast in the public's "interest, convenience and necessity," to borrow words from the original "Act." I have spent a long career trying to live up to those directions. I personally don't believe that soft porn is part of any of those definitions. It has saddened me that some members of my profession have not chosen to operate to those standards.
My comments to now have been purely to point out a broadcast management point of view as I see it in this particular case. The only reason I do that is that I
have been in that business and feel I have the background and some perspective on how those decisions are made.
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