Shock jock Howard Stern distributed free sirius satellite radio sets to crowds in New York while chanting "Death to the FCC". He's got a valid point when he says that commercial radio and by extension the media is too tightly controlled by the government. The government has no business dictating public morality. If the public wants to listen to an aging asshole mouthing off like a sailor, its their choice. if u do not want to ....change the fucking channel.
The media going satellite is like Dems going to Canada after Kerry lost. Solves your problem, but leaves the mainstream at the hands of those you regard to be fucktards. I have a very Orwellian view of this issue. Already there are two americas: fox news america and new york times america. the two meet only if you read the times while watching fox news. Satellite and the blog world will only make this worse. The likes of Wonkette and Stern make news with their blogs and satellite radio. They cater to one section of the population. There will be others catering to the pinkos, the red states etc etc(wonder how pinko is communist and red states are conservative....which fucking moron came up with the nomenclature?) .
according to me a country is not a geographical entity. its a land that shares a common past and works towards a common future. in other words, its a country that tunes into the same 60 channels to get its news and form its views. there is a serious danger that multiple parts of this country will document history differently and consequently work towards totally different futures. just like ptv (pakistan) and doordarshan (india) view the same issues from angles 180 degrees apart, we will have various segments of this country viewing things they want to. ptv and doordarshan belong to different countries. fox and nytimes dont. at least for now that is.
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