Hoe No!

[itburnswhenipee]

For years, Eliot Spitzer advanced his career and personal wealth on the backs of broadcasters.

He went on a self-righteous moral crusade for "family values" on the radio. He pushed for millions of dollars in fines against deejays who told a pee-pee joke on the air. He joined the FCC witch hunt to drive some of radio's best and brightest, including the legendary Howard Stern, off the airwaves. We were all bad people because we joked about a girl's boobies on the air.

Now the truth comes out. The moral crusader for "family radio" spent $80,000 on hookers over more than ten years, and was little more than a fake, hypocritical sleazeball.

It's called Poetic Justice.

 

[middlega]

Actually Spitzer's own personal failings do nothing to change the fact that garbage like Stern has no business on the air. Biggest pity is that more of the same ilk aren't gone.

 

[Windreader]

Actually Spitzer's own personal failings do nothing to change the fact that garbage like Stern has no business on the air. Biggest pity is that more of the same ilk aren't gone.

Nevertheless, it should be up to the marketplace to determine what is successful and what goes away... not self righteous jackasses like Spitzer, or James Dobson, etc.

 

[middlega]

Nevertheless, it should be up to the marketplace to determine what is successful and what goes away

Obviously we disagree on that point.

 

[smedge2006]

For years, Eliot Spitzer advanced his career and personal wealth on the backs of broadcasters.

He went on a self-righteous moral crusade for "family values" on the radio. He pushed for millions of dollars in fines against deejays who told a pee-pee joke on the air. He joined the FCC witch hunt to drive some of radio's best and brightest, including the legendary Howard Stern, off the airwaves. We were all bad people because we joked about a girl's boobies on the air.

Spitzer's target was payola, not indecency, an area over which he had no control as New York State Attorney General and which seems to be the only responsibility the FCC takes seriously. Are you really mad because some overconsolidated radio companies had to end their multi-million dollar game of extorting money out of bloated record companies? If Spitzer had been able to clean up payola ten years earlier, radio might have been playing music that was closer to changing tastes and might not have lost the next generation so thoroughly.

 

[SalesWeasel]

For years, Eliot Spitzer advanced his career and personal wealth on the backs of broadcasters.

He went on a self-righteous moral crusade for "family values" on the radio. He pushed for millions of dollars in fines against deejays who told a pee-pee joke on the air. He joined the FCC witch hunt to drive some of radio's best and brightest, including the legendary Howard Stern, off the airwaves. We were all bad people because we joked about a girl's boobies on the air.

Spitzer's target was payola, not indecency, an area over which he had no control as New York State Attorney General and which seems to be the only responsibility the FCC takes seriously. Are you really mad because some overconsolidated radio companies had to end their multi-million dollar game of extorting money out of bloated record companies? If Spitzer had been able to clean up payola ten years earlier, radio might have been playing music that was closer to changing tastes and might not have lost the next generation so thoroughly.

FTW

 

[ClarkKent]

I'm going to ask the obvious question...why is this on the Atlanta radio board?

And how will this affect Q100? (Sorry, had to. ;D )

 

[FloydB]

I'm going to ask the obvious question...why is this on the Atlanta radio board?

And how will this affect Q100? (Sorry, had to. ;D )

Ah, nostalgia!