Word: wbai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than "legally" obscene. The "uniquely pervasive presence" of broadcasting justifies such regulation, said Stevens, who tried to narrow the ruling to the facts of the case-an explicit comedy routine that could be heard by a child in the afternoon over New York's radio station WBAI-FM. Angrily dissenting, Brennan said that Stevens' rationale "could justify" banning Chaucer from the radio, as well as portions of the Watergate tapes and the Bible...
...WBAI, the New York station cited by the FCC case for airing the routine, sided with Carlin, saying that the decision unfairly placed radio and T.V. in a different category than print media as far as the First Amendment is concerned...
...Peter Bridge was cited for contempt and jailed for 20 days for refusing to go beyond a story about official corruption he wrote for the defunct Newark Evening News: Edwin Goodman served 44 hours of a 30-day sentence for refusing to hand over WBAI-FM tapes of a prison riot; William Farr has been in jail since Nov. 27 for refusing to disclose his source for a Los Angeles Times article about the Charles Manson murder trial...