Ha, life's weird. I just got back from a record buying
binge in Vancouver. I was pleasantly surprised to find a
large number of list-related emails awaiting me - traffic
seems to have slowed over the summer. Anyways, I
specifically remember passing up on a Vadim/Jones 12" in
one of the bins at Zuluu records. Now with all this talk,
I wish I had picked it up. Anyways, I managed to spend way
too much money on other things, which i'll maybe address in
another post.
Anyhow, since another listee posted a salon.com article
about 2-step, I thought I'd take the opportunity to post a
few links to other salon.com articles which are kind of on
point for this thread, rather than try to think too hard
and try and come up with my own thoughts on this tired
monday morning.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/13/eminem_fcc/index.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/letters/2001/06/14/fcc_eminem/index.html
A station in Colorado just got slapped with an FCC
complaint for playing an Eminem tune. Read about it in the
article, and read some reader responses. I think most of
us would agree that the real slim shady is a far more
worthy candidate of censure, but does it matter?
Ultimately, message should be left out of any free speech
argument. For speech to truly be free, we need to accept
all the crappy, racist, homophobic, sexist junk in addition
to positive messages such as Sarah Jones' (Mind you,
celebrating homophobic, sexist, violent junk such as Emenim
is something else altogether). Should we be trying to
sheild our tender ears from such obsenities? Which brings
me to:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/11/children/
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/06/11/heins/index.html
Both of which argue that censuring does society's children
more harm than good, as well as stating that links between
'indecent' images/sounds and actions are thin at best.
When I was a child, I wasn't allowed to watch violent shows
like the A-team, and my dad frowned upon Looneytoon
cartoons, as well (but i watched them anyways). Now, I
like to think I'm a peaceful, respectful adult, not
specifically because of the fact that my parents tried to
shield me from violence, but because of the way I was
brought up in general. While I don't question my dad's
right to try and censure my intake of certain messages (he
didn't manage to stop me from listening to Ice-T and Cube
back in the day, yet I don't plan on going out on a cop
killing rampage anytime soon), I _do_ question the right of
a government to micro-manage civil liberties in the same
manner. Sure the FCC (or the CRTC here in Canada) are just
doing their job, but it really shouldn't be their job to do
so in the first place.
*sigh* I'm rampling again...
--- "Joni ." <bigorangecat@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well Carl,
>
> While this is a very lengthy and well-written rebutal to
> make the case of
> "protect the children" and the FCC was just "doing it's
> job", you raise some
> other significant issues.
>
=====
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the Fat Beat Diet - Thursday evenings, 10:30-Midnight
CJSW 90.9FM (Calgary) - in real audio at:
http://www.cjsw.com
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