The Los Angeles City Council has passed a resolution condemning speech on radio that some may find “intolerable.”
According to the local CBS station in L.A., Councilmember Jan Perry “introduced legislation this week that would call upon media companies to ensure ‘on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs’ on radio and other broadcasts.”
The resolution, which the L.A. Times notes is only a “symbolic” move, passed 13-2.
“It’s exactly appropriate for this council to speak up against the vile things we hear on the airwaves,” Councilman Paul Krekorian told the Times. According to him, he doesn’t want to see free speech stifled, but rather is looking “to seek a greater consensus on what is appropriate speech and to reject what is not.” [Quote is referring to the Times' paraphrase -- it is not Krekorian's exact words]
Typical socialist/facist propaganda --- he doesn't want to stifle "free speech".....uh huh. ONLY the speech he doesn't like or agree with....its a good thing that Louis Farrakhan doesn't live in LA. Or Al Sharpton. And would that also apply to the mega million dollar music industry in LA that daily cuts CD's promoting the murder of women and police (and "nigga's" ---THEIR words, mind you)? And the movie industry that yearly produces movies based on the murder and beating of people based on their race and ideas? OH, what a slippery slope these small minded dictatorial goofballs try to negotiate, and how hilarious their rationale becomes as they mire themselves in in an ever increasingly convoluted logic....and I use "logic" in the most expansive and liberal of definitions.
ReplyDeleteWell done, 7:30!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the bill or even understand some of the first poster but, I think it is a good idea. I don't want to hear that crap on radio.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't want to see it all the time in movies or cd's. That's why I don't go to those movies and don't buy those types of cd's.
If one pays money to hear that crap that's one thing, but to be forced to hear it on radio or t.v. is not voluntary. Big difference there.
You dont like what you hear, change the channel.
ReplyDelete11:45 PM
ReplyDeleteThat may be true but some things should not be allowed on air to begin with. That's what this is about, not freedom of choice.
Common decency, common courtesy and other similar things have steadily declined in this country.
For reasons similar to yours about 'changing the channel'.
And society as a whole, not just the individuals, have suffered as a result.
Freedoms are a wonderful thing. Abuse of those freedoms is another animal altogether. And it has consequences, such as we have already experienced and probably will continue to experience, especially with the attitudes such as yours and others.
If you want to hear stuff like that, that's what cable and satellite radio is for. Not everyone should have to be exposed to that on public forums such as t.v. and radio.
It should be in a designated place where people would have to intentionally seek in order to hear. Not by just turning on a device.