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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
The description of the tape here looks bad, but I wonder, if everybody there heard it, really why should the DJs be more responsible for stopping the participants than the participants themselves, in a criminal sense, at least?
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Well, here's one thing to consider from a professional broadcaster.
On air radio stations are licensed by the Federal Government to operate in the public's best interest.
As I said early in the thread, it isn't likely that the FCC's mandate would specifically cover something like manslaughter, but the licensee of the station should be operating in the public's "interest, convenience and necessity," to quote the original Communications Act.
It is not in the public interest to run a contest that endgangers lives.
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