Stern Gets Suspended

[mburbank]

I'm not sure I even see this as a free speech issue.

CC is a private corporation, they can do what they want with their content.

They only owned six stations that ran stern so the impact is smll in any case.

HERE's the problem. The FCC under Michael Powell accepts huge amounts of free booty from big corps like CC. They are working hard to ease regulation so that huge Corps like CC can eat up more of the market and preesumably give Powell more lifestyle assistance. Huge Corps like CC and Powell become beholden to each other, mutual parasites. Powell can tell them what to do if they want to see him keep prssuring for deregulation.

Suppose CC owned say 4/5 of the radio stations. That's around what they own of major pwerformance venues right now, so it's a good figure. Then the government and not the market would be able to determine your access to Howard Stern. Or anyone else. And if you think that's limmited to poo-poo Kaa Kaa, I think you're wrong.