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This past week, WBAI, a public radio station in New York City, was so worried about the FCC’s recent trend of levying astronomically high fines on stations found in violation of obscenity rules that it decided to not air Allen Ginsberg’s epic Beat poem, “Howl.” Ironically, the impetus for the planned broadcast was that it was the 50th anniversary of a ruling that deemed the poem fit for the airwaves. On Oct. 3, 1957, the courts ruled that “Howl” contained...
...Right. A lot of people are resenting that. I did a number of radio call-in programs, and people are mad. They're getting mad at me, because their cell phone was going off at night. They say, I resent the fact that I'm on call 24/7 with the more-faster-now. What we should really understand is that if we looked in the mirror, you're going to find out very quickly who's making that choice. To say, 'well, it's my boss's fault...
ATTACK Not even 12-year-olds are off-limits. After seventh-grader Graeme Frost gave his Sept.29 Democratic radio address in support of the contentious State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill, conservative bloggers went after him and his family, claiming the Frosts send Graeme and his sister to fancy private schools, own a lavish house and are too wealthy to receive state health coverage...
...joined with the University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute to install a set of 42 dish antennas in Hat Creek, Calif. The so-called Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which was scheduled to go live on Oct. 11, does what conventional radio telescopes do. That is to say, it listens to the faint whisper of radio signals from celestial objects like quasars, which make up the collective voice of the universe. But the ATA can listen on a private line too--the one on which suspiciously regular pulses emanating from the vicinity of sunlike stars...
...short, just as the radio spot claimed, the Frosts are precisely the kind of people that the SCHIP program was intended to help...