1/28/2004
Shock jock shocked
Clear Channel fined $755,000 over Florida "Bubba the Love Sponge" broadcasts.
There are no good guys here.
First, there is a cynical radio monopoly so mendacious its executives can say things like this: "None of us defend or encourage indecent content - it's simply not part of our corporate culture."
This is too rich. Not part of their corporate culture? It's part of their corporate formula.
Then, there is the loathsome Bubba the Love Sponge Clem who shifts from vulgarian in-your-face sleazemaster to self-pitying victim. "Nobody gives me a fair shake," he says.
And there's the FCC, which has no trouble at all with consolidation of radio broadcasting into the hands of a few corporations and sees its real challenge as fighting "indecency." It wants Congress to increase the maximum fine for indecency from $27,500 per incident to $275,000.
There are no good guys here.
First, there is a cynical radio monopoly so mendacious its executives can say things like this: "None of us defend or encourage indecent content - it's simply not part of our corporate culture."
This is too rich. Not part of their corporate culture? It's part of their corporate formula.
Then, there is the loathsome Bubba the Love Sponge Clem who shifts from vulgarian in-your-face sleazemaster to self-pitying victim. "Nobody gives me a fair shake," he says.
And there's the FCC, which has no trouble at all with consolidation of radio broadcasting into the hands of a few corporations and sees its real challenge as fighting "indecency." It wants Congress to increase the maximum fine for indecency from $27,500 per incident to $275,000.
