Thursday, February 22, 2007

The NAB Flip-Flops On Indecency

SATELLITE RADIO COMMENTARY
Money, not outrage, fuels anti-merger fight
BY GLENN GARVIN, Feb 22, The Miami Herald

Watch out for winged pigs, rivers flowing upstream, Hillary Clinton kissing Rush Limbaugh and Britney Spears putting on underwear. Anything is possible now that the National Association of Broadcasters has discovered indecency on the airwaves.
Conveniently, it's somebody else's airwaves -- those inhabited by the two satellite radio companies that compete with the NAB's broadcast clients. The NAB has been shocked, shocked, to learn that the potty-mouth Howard Stern is talking about sex, poop and body parts on satellite radio, and says that's a good enough reason for the government to block the merger of XM and Sirius....read more: here