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Finneran swears again

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rike101

Anyone hear the "bullshit" word come out over the air from Finneran again this morning? Class act, that guy. I guess the DiMasi story hit too close to home, and he lost his cool.
Hear him mention how DiMasi and his family are "suffering" because of this? Sickening.
 
rike101 said:
Anyone hear the "bullshit" word come out over the air from Finneran again this morning? Class act, that guy. I guess the DiMasi story hit too close to home, and he lost his cool.
Hear him mention how DiMasi and his family are "suffering" because of this? Sickening.
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Big surprise, he lost his cool while defending a corrupt pol. Anyone notice a trend developing? Not the swearing mind you, his defending of and pity on a discgraced politician
 
Tommy called in --from car-- to LeVeille's program last week after Steve posed a question.

$$$ Diprete, Cianci, Celona, and Sal. Italians on a roll of late... to the Big House.
 
So in the tradition of Blute and Finneran how long before Sal gets a show on WRKO? :mad:
 
It's the first interesting thing on that show in 6 months.
 
NECN had to indef. suspend Debbie DiMasi's book talk show (she and Mrs. Jay Cashman pay NECN
to air it) because they're covering the Sal DiMasi controversy and it could be seen as a conflict
of interest.
 
Why is bullshit a banned word? I don't get some of the rules of what you can and can't say especially when there is no written protocol
 
Back before you were born Travis, there was this big to do about George Carlins "seven words you can't say" and a Pacifica radio station that played the bit uncensored. It went all the way to the U.S. Supreme court.

FCC v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION, 438 U.S. 726 (1978)
438 U.S. 726

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 77-528.

Argued April 18, 19, 1978
Decided July 3, 1978

That's why you can't say bullshit on the radio. In recent years, because of "shock jocks" such as Howard, O&A, et al, being lazy, and going for the easiest laugh ( they never heard of "be profound, not profane") the FCC laid out a whole list of things you couldn't say or even reference on the radio, and post Janet Jackson, the fines for pushing the envelope got pushed from about 3 grand to almost 40 grand and then ten times that.

When your company stock is about to be delisted, and money is tight, the last thing you want as a broadcaster is a N.A.L. from the F.C.C. looking for a 6 figure fine. It isn't worth loosing your job, for cause, or costing the company mega bucks for not being a cunning linguist.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Back before you were born Travis, there was this big to do about George Carlins "seven words you can't say" and a Pacifica radio station that played the bit uncensored. It went all the way to the U.S. Supreme court.

FCC v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION, 438 U.S. 726 (1978)
438 U.S. 726

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 77-528.

Argued April 18, 19, 1978
Decided July 3, 1978

That's why you can't say bullshit on the radio. In recent years, because of "shock jocks" such as Howard, O&A, et al, being lazy, and going for the easiest laugh ( they never heard of "be profound, not profane") the FCC laid out a whole list of things you couldn't say or even reference on the radio, and post Janet Jackson, the fines for pushing the envelope got pushed from about 3 grand to almost 40 grand and then ten times that.

When your company stock is about to be delisted, and money is tight, the last thing you want as a broadcaster is a N.A.L. from the F.C.C. looking for a 6 figure fine. It isn't worth loosing your job, for cause, or costing the company mega bucks for not being a cunning linguist.
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Howard Stern is lazy? and it's losing, not loosing...You have no idea how often people use that incorrectly
 
This whole uproar over ONE expletive in an age where kindergarten age kids hear much WORSE from THEIR OWN PARENTS and PEOPLE AROUND THEM is bulls--t in the clearest possible definition.

And I'm assuming grown consenting, ADULTS listen to this guy's show. It's not like WRKO is Radio Disney exactly.

Sometimes, these self-appointed, self-righteous religious people "protecting the children" fail to realize the needle of their "moral compass" is pointed at their own asses......
 
I remember CBS was showing the movie "Network" and they allowed the B.S. word to go through;
essential to plot or scene. But I think "BJ And The Bear" still won the time slot that night.

Sat Night Live: got into hot water when Paul Shaffer played a medieval musician who kept saying a
certain word as "floggin'" --until he said it as...yup. And Charles Rocket, playing J.R. in a "Dallas: Who Shot JR"
spoof on that show, blurted out "I'd like to know who the f--- did it". Massive fallout. Keep in mind this was at 1 am (almost) Eastern time (safe harbor? back then?)

I guess it can depend on context; as the late Mr Carlin once put it, "you can prick your finger but don't (guess!)..." :)

Agreed with MRBIboredop; as much as we'd like to let fleeting expletives go through, this is why we have
the dump button, etc.
In the past before WMWM got its dump button, I had to pot down certain words on a couple blues tunes...

"Strokin'" by Clarence Carter (not exactly pure as it is): "My woman calls my name--Clarence Carter,
Clarence Carter, oooooooh s---t! Clarence Carter..."

"Little Village" by Sonny Boy Williamson has studio dialogue.
"What's the name of this tune?"
"Little Village. Uh, little village, mother f----r, little village!"
(Laughter) etc
 
raccoonradio said:
I remember CBS was showing the movie "Network" and they allowed the B.S. word to go through;
essential to plot or scene. But I think "BJ And The Bear" still won the time slot that night.

Sat Night Live: got into hot water when Paul Shaffer played a medieval musician who kept saying a
certain word as "floggin'" --until he said it as...yup. And Charles Rocket, playing J.R. in a "Dallas: Who Shot JR"
spoof on that show, blurted out "I'd like to know who the f--- did it". Massive fallout. Keep in mind this was at 1 am (almost) Eastern time (safe harbor? back then?)

I guess it can depend on context; as the late Mr Carlin once put it, "you can prick your finger but don't (guess!)..." :)

Agreed with MRBIboredop; as much as we'd like to let fleeting expletives go through, this is why we have
the dump button, etc.
In the past before WMWM got its dump button, I had to pot down certain words on a couple blues tunes...

"Strokin'" by Clarence Carter (not exactly pure as it is): "My woman calls my name--Clarence Carter,
Clarence Carter, oooooooh s---t! Clarence Carter..."

"Little Village" by Sonny Boy Williamson has studio dialogue.
"What's the name of this tune?"
"Little Village. Uh, little village, mother f----r, little village!"
(Laughter) etc
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There is a contemporary opera composer named John Adams, and he writes music for texts (technically called a "libretto") based on recent world history. His most recent opera dealth with the developmenht of the atomic bomb, and an earlier opera was based on the death of Leon Klinghoffer, a Jew who was thrown from the deck of the ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists. His most famous work though is called "Nixon in China", naturally about President Nixon's visit to that country in the 1970s. In the last act, Dick and Pat attend a dinner with the Chiinese leaders, and when a dance band starts playing, Dick says "let's show these ****s how to dance" only he speaks out the phrase. "Nixon in China" is still widely performed, there's an audio CD and a DVD, so any radio or TV station would have to get Mr. Adams' permission to delete the forbidden phraseology.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Back before you were born Travis, there was this big to do about George Carlins "seven words you can't say" and a Pacifica radio station that played the bit uncensored. It went all the way to the U.S. Supreme court.

FCC v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION, 438 U.S. 726 (1978)
438 U.S. 726

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 77-528.

Argued April 18, 19, 1978
Decided July 3, 1978

That's why you can't say bullshit on the radio. In recent years, because of "shock jocks" such as Howard, O&A, et al, being lazy, and going for the easiest laugh ( they never heard of "be profound, not profane") the FCC laid out a whole list of things you couldn't say or even reference on the radio, and post Janet Jackson, the fines for pushing the envelope got pushed from about 3 grand to almost 40 grand and then ten times that.
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Finding the legal citation is child's play. Actually READING the decision might have been a better idea for you, because there is no such "list." The FCC's position is and always has been that each case is decided on its own merits and in context...not quite the bright line broadcasters are looking for, but that's how it is.

MRBIboredop said:
When your company stock is about to be delisted, and money is tight, the last thing you want as a broadcaster is a N.A.L. from the F.C.C. looking for a 6 figure fine. It isn't worth loosing your job, for cause, or costing the company mega bucks for not being a cunning linguist.
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Uh, try to keep up, OK? Entercom is in no danger of being delisted. They got their stock prices well above the threshold for delisting long ago.
 
they are no longer in danger because the Fields family bought a bunch of stock themselves to get the price back up. For a while there they were in danger of getting a delisting letter.

As for the 7 words, and related bodily function descriptions, they may not be in writing, but most people steer clear of them for a reason
 
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