Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2002/04

From: jim & joyce <lande@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] obscenity
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:53:30 -0500

All this talk about obscenity and what jumps out in the next
post by CBA is "TONEHOLE" and I think, that's a new one on
me. And then I see that the the discussion is about
fingering. Oh my! Somebody should put something in the
headers to warn us.

Maturity is minding one's own manners and not other folk's.

I work at the FCC, of seven dirty word fame. I don't work
on that side of the house and don't know the rules.
However, around 1980, Pacifica asked the FCC if it would be
OK to air a reading that contained several choice phrases.
I don't recall the specifics, but one's that Pacifica's
chose then then coincide with my 16 yo son's current
lexicon. Somehow we discovered that the exerpts had been
sliced from Finnigan's Wake, which in fact the Supreme Court
had already ruled was not obscene. So, we were spared the
embarassment of contradicting our betters. Instead, we said
that we wouldn't censor anything but rather, if there was a
complaint, we would then determine if the rules had been
broken.

Unfortunately, we spent the rest of the 1980s making Howard
Stern rich and famous.

Some fights you can't win and cause more harm than good.

jim lande

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