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...Here?s what happened.? For the past six years, I?ve been doing autobiographical commentaries for KCRW in Los Angeles.?Widely regarded as L.A.?s most adventurous public radio station, KCRW is known for cutting-edge news coverage, arts coverage, and trend-setting music. When celebrities wish to discuss politics too thorny for primetime, they come to KCRW.? Israel/Palestine, Iraq, gay marriage - no one shrinks from hot-button issues.? It?s considered a bastion of free speech and independent thinking. Which was why I had no clue I?d be fired for the following segment from my show...
...Unfortunately the bleep - intended as a fleeting comic throwaway inspired by the famously blue-talking diva - did not happen.? My KCRW engineer - still employed at the station - forgot.? And this moment became what Ruth Seymour, my station manager, would describe to Reuters as my very own "Janet Jackson performance piece...
...brilliant," which is considered OK because, well, he was just saying it for emphasis and not talking about an act of, um, love. But my outburst was never supposed to make it on the air. It was not part of a lewd series.? The FCC never even contacted the station to complain. KCRW called my firing a "preemptive distancing." Although they later offered me my job back, and even promised a better time slot, I declined...
...While a policy of zero-tolerance regarding profanity was for my dismissal, this had not strictly been the station?s practice.? Case in point: A 2002 interview that Seymour did with Dennis Hopper regarding Andy Warhol.? While discussing the work of Helmut Newton, Hopper used the same strong obscenity I did, Ruth laughed, and it ran unbleeped...
...kerfuffle surrounding Howard Stern (Staff Ed, “Indecency on the Airwaves,” March 8). As Congress seeks to increase indecency penalties by a factor of 10 or more and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revs up to enforce indecency standards more stringently, radio station owners can hardly be blamed for taking action to avoid fines. In fact, independent radio stations are even more vulnerable to government pressure than huge conglomerates, as they are less able to afford FCC fines. The problem here is government overregulation of radio content, not underregulation of radio ownership. The government should...