Re: [dvd-discuss] ClearChannel Plays It Safe

[Bryan Taylor <bryan_w_taylor(at)yahoo.com>]

--- Dean Sanchez <DSanchez@fcci-group.com> wrote:
> The fallout continues.  It's hard enough to fight government censorship
> and threats to civil liberties, but what can we do when a company
> controls a public media (it owns over 1,200 radio stations) and
> exercises it's own brand of censorship?   And where will it stop?  When
> a company this size has quasi-governmental power over the public
> airwaves, how do you ensure the public's stake?

Radio stations and companies who own them exercise their free speech rights
when the choose what will be played. There is no "public stake" in controlling
what a private company communicates. There are no "public airwaves" in the AM
or FM band, but this is the fault of the FCC, not the radio companies. The real
crime with radio is the FCC restrictions on AM/FM stations that effectively
eliminate small scale competition. 

I don't listen to radio for music. It's all repetative drivel anyway. Radio is
very out of style these days. The radio stations pay the studios for song
playlists and consciously manipulate their listeners. It's their right to do
it, and it's might right to say that their listeners are sheep.



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