Re: CENSORSHIP on WBZ RADIO

[Dib9@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-07-14 22:42:18 EDT, you write:

<< Now the larger argument is can a corporation or programmer silence a caller
or
 host on a certain topic? Sure. Is it right? No, >>

OK, maybe you got me on the dictionary definition.  I will state that
censorship is not something to worry about unless the government is involved.
If the editorial judgement by a radio station is cenorship then that came of
censorship happens all the time.

Who should decide what goes on the air on a radio station?  The station's
management or the person on the air?  Obviously management.  I work at WMGX
and if on Saturday I decided to play Garth Brooks instead of Sarah
McClaughlin, I would be pulled off the air ASAP.  Is that censorship?  The
Globe gets thousands of letters to the editor but only prints a few.  Is that
censorship?  Of course not and it's not censorship for a radio station to
decide to pull a caller off the air or refuse to let someone on the air.

On the same show on Sunday, I heard Lobel interupt a caller and say "We can't
do made up trades on the radio" and cut the guy off.  I guess it is OK if
Lobel does it and bad if Casey does it.

Dan Billings
Bowdoinham, ME

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