on the little warning signs
Feb. 26th, 2006 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serinde...which are, frankly, scarier than the big neon flashing ones. Because we're all getting accustomed to the fundamentalists' assaults on our rights, on what we may see and do--the abortion debates, the nekkid bQQbie debates, all that sort of thing, we see them coming; we mobilize, we write letters, we rant in LJ, the ACLU and the EFF and all their fellow-travelers weigh in; the battle isn't won, no, not by a long chalk, but the fight is there and we all see it.
And we never notice their Fifth Column silently stealing ground way in our backfield.
Like this morning, when 92.3, nee K-Rock, now Free FM, dropped the words "giving head" out of "Walk On The Wild Side".
I don't care for your new weekday talk format at all--I hate talk radio--but I've really loved your Free FM weekends; I keep my radio tuned to it almost constantly.
Until this morning, when I just heard you bleep the words "giving head" out of Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side".
What the hell, people? This is not Saudi Arabia. You are allowed to say that on radio. I'm embarrassed and disgusted that any American station with any claim to upholding the spirit of music would do such a thing, and it's only the more pathetic that you're calling yourself "Free FM". Until and unless I hear that you've decided to play songs in their entirety without editing them for the ears of six-year-olds, 92.3 is completely off my dial.
And we never notice their Fifth Column silently stealing ground way in our backfield.
Like this morning, when 92.3, nee K-Rock, now Free FM, dropped the words "giving head" out of "Walk On The Wild Side".
I don't care for your new weekday talk format at all--I hate talk radio--but I've really loved your Free FM weekends; I keep my radio tuned to it almost constantly.
Until this morning, when I just heard you bleep the words "giving head" out of Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side".
What the hell, people? This is not Saudi Arabia. You are allowed to say that on radio. I'm embarrassed and disgusted that any American station with any claim to upholding the spirit of music would do such a thing, and it's only the more pathetic that you're calling yourself "Free FM". Until and unless I hear that you've decided to play songs in their entirety without editing them for the ears of six-year-olds, 92.3 is completely off my dial.
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Date: 2006-02-26 04:48 pm (UTC)This shocks you...how?
and it further shocks you...how when you realize the weekend stuff isnt even broadcast from New york? Its just a automated feed from their center in California.
I hate to say it, but your email did not even register as a blip on the radar.
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Date: 2006-02-28 07:33 pm (UTC)And I don't care where it's an automated feed from. As I just followed up to The Other Dave, if the song was considered harmless for 1980s Ohio, it's by damn safe for 2000s NYC/California/anywhere in this country.
Yes, one letter does nothing. But consider the fact that the fundies have gotten as far as they have by mobilizing their foot soldiers to each send reams of complaint mail and calls to every corporation who isn't 100% sanitized. If theirs is the only viewpoint our logo overlords (thank you DD) hear, that's what they'll conform to.