Re: Detroit Pirate Shutdown

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:11:18 -0400, mwaters@wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters) said:

>> Mike Hemeon wrote:
>> Well it appears that the way to go if you decide to become a pirate is open a
>> religious or foreign language station.

>         I guess you're suggesting the FCC is gentler with them -- because?

Because if you're an ethnic station you can get the lefties to defend
you, and if you're a religious station you can generate spurious
free-exercise-clause arguments in court and probably get some
right-wing congresscritter to stand up for you.

- -GAWollman

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