Censorship gone wild..........

if you havent heard of opie and anthony ......dont fret. your one of many. they are a couple of sydicated shock jocks from nyc and are on free fm and xm sattelite radio in the mornings. think of them as howard stern light. of course the show on xm is a little racier than the one on free fm because the fcc doesnt control the sattelite radio airwaves....and they shouldnt. its just like cable tv. if i pay for it i should be able to see whatever i want. that was until this week.......

May 16, 2007 -- SHOCK jocks Opie & Anthony were suspended - with pay - from XM satellite radio yesterday for 30 days in a new wrinkle on the Condoleezza Rice "rape" controversy.
XM officials yanked the pair claiming the shock jocks had not taken the incident seriously. Last Friday, Hughes and Cumia apologized for their comments from last Wednesday's show during which a guest named "Homeless Charlie" told the deejays he wanted to have rough sex with Rice and First Lady Laura Bush.

is what was said horrible? yes, if it wasnt a comedy show but it is so it should be taken for what it was.....a bit. think their job is easy? you try entertaining people for 5 hours a day 5 days a week and see how easy it is. Opie & Anthony make a good point that radio doesnt have any parameters on content. wouldnt we take it differently to hear chris rock drop an n-bomb as opposed to mike wallace on 60 minutes? we should. ones a serious news show and the other is a comedy. we should handle whats said on family guy differently than if the same thing was said on the nightly news but alas radio is different. everyone is held to the same standards. its regoddamndiculous.

i'll bet this wouldnt have been a big deal if the guy refered to ......lets say......lindsay lohan and paris hilton instead of condy rice and laura bush. do you think xm did this with an eye toward their impending meger with sirius? isnt this why you pay for satelite radio so you can get it without censorship. this wasnt an fcc thing this was done strictly by xm. one school of thought is that xm is going to let them go to cut costs. xm has the most subscribers but they are losing ground to sirius rapidly. sirius has stern so they dont need opie and anthony and this is a good way for xm to purge some salary. regardless this is another stupid case of censorship. every radio has a control for just such things....its called an on/off switch.

this is shoes....over and out........