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Boing Boing: "The FCC's war on dirty words is having a chilling effect -- even WBAI Pacifica, the radical radio station in NYC, is scared of airing Allen Ginsberg's magnificent poem, Howl."
This radio station has a lot of interesting and controversial programming, while remaining open to the community. I got to see one of the people who has a show on this station speak a few years ago on the topic of censorship; it was interesting. If my memory is correct, they aired George Carlin's routine in blatant defiance of the FCC and were hit with heavy fines. Now, they continue to push the line, but the FCC has not yet officially said what can and cannot be said (This speaker suggested that listing "you cannot say this" presents a first amendment issue, and I agree with this). Howl being Howl, though, has too much fowl language to risk it; the station doesn't have the money to pay that many fines.
This radio station has a lot of interesting and controversial programming, while remaining open to the community. I got to see one of the people who has a show on this station speak a few years ago on the topic of censorship; it was interesting. If my memory is correct, they aired George Carlin's routine in blatant defiance of the FCC and were hit with heavy fines. Now, they continue to push the line, but the FCC has not yet officially said what can and cannot be said (This speaker suggested that listing "you cannot say this" presents a first amendment issue, and I agree with this). Howl being Howl, though, has too much fowl language to risk it; the station doesn't have the money to pay that many fines.
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