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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: Howard Stern
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:56:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.235621.24290@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <92358.142002FDMWINK@UCF1VM.BITNET> <1992Dec28.131124.12759@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Dec28.131124.12759@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> edp@bsdbld.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil) writes:
- >In article <92358.142002FDMWINK@UCF1VM.BITNET>, FDMWINK@UCF1VM.BITNET writes:
- >
- >>And equal access is the key. Since the electromagnetic spectrum can only
- >>(given the current technology) be cut into so many piece, the Federal
- >>government has asserted its _responsibility_ to regulate the "air waves" as
- >>a public trust.
- >
- >The electromagnetic spectrum in my region of the country is nowhere near
- >full; there's room for plenty more broadcasters. Is it full in the area
- >where the complaint against Stern was made? Is it full (in the
- >frequencies assigned to commercial radio and television) anywhere in the
- >country? If the spectrum was not full, then the government cannot claim
- >that any person's ability to speak was limited by the availability of
- >bandwidth, and the argument that the government has to arbitrate who can
- >speak and/or what they can say is bogus.
-
- This is true. As a caveat, however, I must add that the purpose of the
- FCC was to prevent interference between stations, so that even if the
- airwaves were not "full", the idea was that someone could still interfere
- with other signals.
- >
- >>I would appreciate some examples of the "ideas" that Howard is
- >>being prevented from discussing "on the air." IMNSHO Howard's basic
- >>problem is a lack of an adequate vocabulary.
- >
- >The objected-to statements were posted here; check your newsreader. I
- >saw no words that would be labeled obscene; it was the ideas that were
- >penalized. (I think "masturbated" was the worst word used.)
-
- And due to this, I can only conclude that some people with all too much
- free time sit around their radios and plan to be "offended". Which is
- quite the fad, nowadays. Sometimes I think the world is populated by
- people who didn't get nearly enough parental discipline early in life,
- and not nearly enough work to do later.
-
- GM("Whose Smile is an Insufficient Umbrella")S
-