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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: Re: Howard Stern
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:58:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.155808.22825@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <01GSW3HOEK82ADDCB5@ccfvx3.draper.com> <1hqmfnINNg8s@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1hqmfnINNg8s@gap.caltech.edu> vance@cco.caltech.edu (Vance R. Haemmerle) writes:
- >In article <01GSW3HOEK82ADDCB5@ccfvx3.draper.com> skh4161@mvs.draper.com (Kjeld Hvatum) writes:
- >>
- >>In general, the traditional broadcast spectrum is full. It may be
- >>"fuller" in your part of the country than you think.
- [....]
- >
- >In Los Angeles there is a Channel 4 (NBC) and Channel 5 (Ind.). The
- >break between low VHF and high VHF is between 6 and 7. So they are
- >in adjacent 6MHz bands and I don't remember any interference problems.
- >(I don't live there now). I think this was a problem with earlier
- [....]
-
- This is all entirely irrelevant.
-
- Firstly, The bandwidth, for whatever reason, is a limited
- resource to some extent, even if the reason is that two stations
- can interfere with one another, even if that interference is
- deliberate, and the FCC is supposed to make sure that doesn't happen.
-
- Secondly, even if it is a limited resource, some of us have taken
- issue with 1) the complete irrelevance of limitations of resources
- to censorship, and 2) the rights of the FCC to censor anybody.
-
- If a body of people exists that seems to want some numbskull on
- the air sufficient to support his being there, then it is hard
- to imagine the FCC having the right to say they should not
- have him there. Unless they can prove that his presence is
- somehow injuring someone or denying their rights, they should
- put a cork in it. Unless of course they are acting out the
- wishes of some special-interest group with entirely too much
- free time on their hands.
-
- Certainly a more dangerous source of "ideas" would be someone
- who could make them sound more intelligent and plausible than
- Howard Stern does. But perhaps I overestimate the listening
- public.
-
- In any case, I personally don't care to have the government
- screening what I can hear. And in the case of Stern, it
- becomes an open spigot to hear a reflection of the kind of
- dim-witted half-baked knee-jerk thoughts that pass for
- "ideas" of the general public. Summarize it under "Forewarned
- is forearmed."
-
- GMS
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