Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's Capa award seemed especially ironic to Nachtwey, since the presentation came the day after the bombing of the Colombo bus station. Says he: "The recent news from Sri Lanka has underlined for me a sense of futility about effecting some kind of positive change in the world. But I believe journalists have to keep trying to shed some light on troubled areas...
...HELL trying to get into Moscow the week of May 1. Inter-Republic Highway 1 was backed up all the way from the Ukraine to Red Square with vehicles of all makes and models--squat black station wagons filled with screaming ice-cream besmeared Young Pioneers, squat black sedans driven by provincial head men, squat black vans with airbrushed scenes of the steppe at sunset painted under round tinted portals, and even a few squat black bicycles weaving their way through the stalled traffic...
...action that considerably broadens its definition of indecency on the airwaves, the FCC issued warnings to three radio licensees, among them WYSP- FM, the Philadelphia station that airs Stern's show, for broadcasting material that contained sexually explicit language. One of those stations, cited for broadcasting excerpts from a play describing homosexual practices, was referred to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution for obscenity. In a move that will undoubtedly affect -- and restrict -- the sexual content of what broadcasters say, the FCC suggested it will henceforth take enforcement action against shows it deems to be "indecent...
...called seven-dirty-words policy, a standard first enunciated in 1976 in response to the broadcast of a monologue by Comedian George Carlin titled Filthy Words, in which he mocked the banning of certain sexually explicit terms. In its ruling that year against New York City station WBAI-FM, the FCC defined indecency as anything "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards," but the commission elected to move against only those stations that permitted one of the proscribed words to be uttered on the air at a time of day when children might be listening. Last week, however...
...Civil Liberties Union lawyer in Washington, D.C., noted that Stern's monologues may be rude, but they are not lewd and are "well within the bounds of protected bad taste" as guaranteed by the First Amendment. David Salniker, executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which operates one of the stations reprimanded by the FCC, argued that the agency is far too vague about where it is drawing the line. "Does this mean that Alice Walker can't read from The Color Purple anymore, as she has on our station, because the book deals with incest?" he asked...