XM Satellite radio shock jock back down
Some shock jocks are good, like Howard Stern. I have no gripe there, which is just as well as I am sure if I got in his line of fire I would end up divorced and picking colors for his wedding to my ex-wife. No, my mini rant is at lame-0's Anthony and Opie.
(I thought that was Oprah Winfrey at first billing!) They have plenty of rude factor in their show, so no lame-o-ness there, but now they are back in their seats after a 30-day suspension, their response was, business as usual. Doh. If that is the case, get ready for another suspension, and another and another, until the show is so neutered it ends up like TV's Opie show minus mega audience giveaways.
Maybe the next potential suspension will be brushed under the carpet in a welter of sincere apologism, but surely, if the shock jocks fell into a sexual assault routine again and apologised as shock jocks should respond - with disdain - XM would have no other option but to take them off air again. (Disdainful response, yes, because it is only radio, and if you don't like them, then turn them off.)
Anyway, however they spin it, it isn't business as usual at all at the Anthony and Opie Show.
In my humble opinion the main twist to this particular case is that more freedom of speech has disappeared into hyperspace!! As I said, censoring any radio is dumb, especially satellite radio but, the off button and commonsense self regulation on the part of the listener has been hijacked by knee jerk executive decisions. The independent, I mean partners (with Sirius) satellite radio company have taken shocking jocking into censorship territory after bowing so magnanimously to political, I mean merger correctness?
Instead of censoring, they could mute the transmission I guess. Silent shocking radio, that should bomb as well as Sirius share prices. Or do what the UK government did years ago and made the BBC etc substitute the Sinn Fein politicians' voices with an actor's voice, to somehow diminish the impact of the words!
And another thought. If these shock jocks already moved from terrestial to satellite for unacceptable behavior, where do they go next? Deep Space Radio? Thinking aloud, there are benefits to the new frontiers and, who knows how many gazillions of new listeners they could have? According to some science show I was watching, statistically there are 1 million lumps of rock with the same atmospheric conditions as our little earth, so there must be some alien political leaders out there who won't mind being violated on air.
Thanks to The Motley Fool for inspiring me this sticky Monday morning. They have a pretty neat beta site going on with lots of fun for wannabe stockpickers. Don't take any notice of me, though. I bought AAPL for $8.50 and sold at $20. Now they are $125 and still rising!
Anthony and Opie
(I thought that was Oprah Winfrey at first billing!) They have plenty of rude factor in their show, so no lame-o-ness there, but now they are back in their seats after a 30-day suspension, their response was, business as usual. Doh. If that is the case, get ready for another suspension, and another and another, until the show is so neutered it ends up like TV's Opie show minus mega audience giveaways.
Maybe the next potential suspension will be brushed under the carpet in a welter of sincere apologism, but surely, if the shock jocks fell into a sexual assault routine again and apologised as shock jocks should respond - with disdain - XM would have no other option but to take them off air again. (Disdainful response, yes, because it is only radio, and if you don't like them, then turn them off.)
Anyway, however they spin it, it isn't business as usual at all at the Anthony and Opie Show.
Shocking loss of freedom
In my humble opinion the main twist to this particular case is that more freedom of speech has disappeared into hyperspace!! As I said, censoring any radio is dumb, especially satellite radio but, the off button and commonsense self regulation on the part of the listener has been hijacked by knee jerk executive decisions. The independent, I mean partners (with Sirius) satellite radio company have taken shocking jocking into censorship territory after bowing so magnanimously to political, I mean merger correctness?
Instead of censoring, they could mute the transmission I guess. Silent shocking radio, that should bomb as well as Sirius share prices. Or do what the UK government did years ago and made the BBC etc substitute the Sinn Fein politicians' voices with an actor's voice, to somehow diminish the impact of the words!
And another thought. If these shock jocks already moved from terrestial to satellite for unacceptable behavior, where do they go next? Deep Space Radio? Thinking aloud, there are benefits to the new frontiers and, who knows how many gazillions of new listeners they could have? According to some science show I was watching, statistically there are 1 million lumps of rock with the same atmospheric conditions as our little earth, so there must be some alien political leaders out there who won't mind being violated on air.
Thanks to The Motley Fool for inspiring me this sticky Monday morning. They have a pretty neat beta site going on with lots of fun for wannabe stockpickers. Don't take any notice of me, though. I bought AAPL for $8.50 and sold at $20. Now they are $125 and still rising!
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