Cosmic Debris
That's quite a production piece, DB, well-written and nicely put together. The present administration always has to have a scapegoat, so now it's radio, tv and "shock jocks."
Lest readers think I'm on an anti-Bush rant, the moderate in me believes that there has to be accountability. The airwaves ain't free (that may be an understatement, given the siege mentality these days.) In many ways, the major broadcasting companies have proven the airwaves ain't free because they've paid lots o' cash to lots of legislators so they could re-write the rules enabling the companies to buy the frequencies and spectrum real estate.
Even being altruistic, the airwaves aren't free... they belong (so it's said) to the public and as such, half the stuff that passes for entertainment in the last ten years on Stern, Mancow, Beck, Michael Savage and O+A really has no business being on the air. It's hard to justify "dreck as entertainment."
If I were a young man getting into the game today, I'd presume (by what I'd heard and read) that the easiest way to make a lot of money and a name for myself would be to collectively or singularly emulate the "bad boys." Be rude, lewd, crude, vulgar and break as many rules as possible and in ten years' time, I'd be working in a major market and maybe even have a morning drive syndication deal, pulling down $2 miilion a year for exorting listeners to simulate sexual congress in the vestibule of a church.
Yea, I'd be livin' the good life.
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