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02-27-2004, 03:36 AM
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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
Now, this isn't a very well-investigated statement on my part, but everything I've read and heard about Clear Channel entertainment leads me to think it's an evil, evil, evil, censoring place.
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If I remember right Clear Channel banned songs from their stations and airwaves after September 11th. Anything with fire, bomb, and so on. I am sorry hearing some funk "You dropped the bomb on me" or the Doors "come on baby light my fire" would have not made me think of terrorist attacks. CNN 24/7 was worse. Sadly they owned all the radio stations in Anchorage so we had options of NPR, and the College station.
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02-27-2004, 10:05 AM
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Howard talked about how they talked to one of the people who wrote a complaint against him. The old man was on a fixed income and paid $0.50 for each complaint letter.
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02-27-2004, 11:26 AM
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Originally posted by aurora_borealis
If I remember right Clear Channel banned songs from their stations and airwaves after September 11th. Anything with fire, bomb, and so on. I am sorry hearing some funk "You dropped the bomb on me" or the Doors "come on baby light my fire" would have not made me think of terrorist attacks. CNN 24/7 was worse. Sadly they owned all the radio stations in Anchorage so we had options of NPR, and the College station.
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Actually, no. http://www.snopes.com/rumors/radio.htm
Not that Clear Channel isn't the devil, but I hate untrue urban legends even worse than I hate Clear Channel.
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02-27-2004, 03:11 PM
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Actually, no. http://www.snopes.com/rumors/radio.htm
Not that Clear Channel isn't the devil, but I hate untrue urban legends even worse than I hate Clear Channel.
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There was an article in the Anchorage Daily News, I will have to find it for you. Though I am cheap and will have to use the library since I won't pay for it through them. If I hadn't read it with my own eyes I wouldn't have mentioned it.
ETA: Here is the information without having to pay the article fee:
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Searched for: clear channel AND section(all) AND date(1/1/2001 to 12/31/2001) Returned: 10 displays of 40 matches
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Local DJs change their tunes
Author: Jeff St. John
Anchorage Daily News
Staff
Date: September 20, 2001
Publication: Anchorage Daily News (AK)
Page: B1
Word count: 694
You're not likely to hear songs like Talking Heads' ''Burning Down the House'' or the Gap Band's ''You Dropped the Bomb on Me'' on Anchorage radio stations any time soon. But you can expect to hear plenty of versions of ''The Star-Spangled Banner.''
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, radio stations in Anchorage, and across the country have chosen not to play songs whose titles or lyrical content could [Read article (fee)]
You can find it at www.adn.com
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02-27-2004, 03:34 PM
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Now Hold On...
It is CC choice to air whatever they want... They do not HAVE to air anything... If they choose to not air this guy, they do not have to. That is THEIR right of free speech...
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02-27-2004, 04:20 PM
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Re: Now Hold On...
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It is CC choice to air whatever they want... They do not HAVE to air anything... If they choose to not air this guy, they do not have to. That is THEIR right of free speech...
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No it is not their right when they are one of the few companies with such a monopolistic hold.
In that situation the market can't function and they won't go out of business for "THEIR right of free speech."
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--I'm on a roll with this arbitrage deal
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02-27-2004, 04:23 PM
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The point is that CC did not outright BAN the songs - as in the stations would have been punished by CC headquarters if they aired them - simply made a list of songs they found questionable. I thought that was ghey (tm AXJules), but there's a diff between a ban & advising.
It IS CC's choice to air whatever they want, no one is questioning that (except for Rudey.  Stern is still heard on the Infinity Broadcasting stations). I just don't believe that they are doing this because they are afraid of little children hearing Howard talk about three-ways. They care about money and publicity, not content.
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04-09-2004, 01:54 AM
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I'm going to see how this effects me. There is a very good chance now that I will be voting Democrat. Very few Democrats supported him either but this happened on the watch of a Republican.
I don't care about Iraq. I want the place bombed to the point of no return.
I don't care that much abotu how people are losing their IT jobs oversees because that doesn't affect me.
But damned am I when you take away what I wake up to in the mornings and say nothing. Has anyone heard the other idiots on the air like Mad Cow? What a bunch of horse crap. Nobody is funny like Howard.
And if this keeps up, my citizenship will be given away and I will live in Tijuana because they probably wouldn't care if they played Howard Stern.
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04-09-2004, 04:25 PM
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So Howard Stern can now be added to the list of "problems" we have in America: people who love each other wanting to get married, and an overgrown frat-boy shooting off his mouth.
I'm glad to know that these are problems rather than all the homeless people and drug addicts.
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04-09-2004, 04:50 PM
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The Howard Stern Show is still on. Its only off of the 6 markets that were carried by Clear Channel stations.
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04-09-2004, 04:56 PM
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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
The Howard Stern Show is still on. Its only off of the 6 markets that were carried by Clear Channel stations.
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I've been emailing politicians all day. Howard doesn't think it matters if we organize because we're not like those religious nutcases who make this our lives, but I bet we can make our voices heard.
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04-09-2004, 05:35 PM
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Don't much like Howard. Doesn't really affect me if Infinity drops him, too.
However, writing to Clear Channel won't help. They have made a business decision, not a moral or legal one. They were fined a whole bunch of money due to his shows.
Fact is that indecency on the airwaves is against the law. Has been since The Communications Act of 1934. It's just that nobody every really enforced it.
Rudey has the only answer that may change anything, and that is to try to get Congress to change the law. Even the FCC can't do that, because they are an enforcement body, not a legislative one.
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04-09-2004, 05:53 PM
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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
So Howard Stern can now be added to the list of "problems" we have in America: people who love each other wanting to get married, and an overgrown frat-boy shooting off his mouth.
I'm glad to know that these are problems rather than all the homeless people and drug addicts.
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lol! Yes, I long for a time when we can focus our efforts on what really matters, like tackling resistant TB (which I find much scarier than war).
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04-09-2004, 06:13 PM
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Don't much like Howard. Doesn't really affect me if Infinity drops him, too.
However, writing to Clear Channel won't help. They have made a business decision, not a moral or legal one. They were fined a whole bunch of money due to his shows.
Fact is that indecency on the airwaves is against the law. Has been since The Communications Act of 1934. It's just that nobody every really enforced it.
Rudey has the only answer that may change anything, and that is to try to get Congress to change the law. Even the FCC can't do that, because they are an enforcement body, not a legislative one.
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Enforcement sets a precedent. Also nobody is able to define what being indecent is. Some of you have said my posts are indecent and can't say why. Is sex indecent? Is calling someone gay indecent? The radio shows where the religious nut jobs attack everyone aren't indecent? Cut me a break this 2 bit scum powell is going after our free speech.
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