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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 35845" data-attributes="member: 99"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sara PA</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> He also had some generally tasteless, annoying satirical skits, but it seems like most who watched/listened for the politics went to the bathroom or took their showers when those were on. Most people seemed to just igore them. </p><p></div></div> </p><p></p><p>I have to qualify my response to this by admitting that I don't watch Don Imus, Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al. I just find them to be generally too aggressive for my taste and it upsets me. There's enough hatred in the world without my turning on the radio or tv to watch it on purpose. I'd rather look at something uplifting. I can get non-biased news reporting from NPR, and no one is ever going to comment on someone's body or color or race or sex or sexual orientation in a demeaning way. EVER.</p><p></p><p>As far as listening to what interests you and ignoring what offends you ("ignore" mind you, not "leave the room"), I think that is telling the people producing the programs that what offends you is just fine as long as it entertains someone else. And indeed, people have free choice to listen to what they want to hear, and not to what they don't want to hear. (Just as I get to have my opinion about it.) And more power to people if they can sit in the room and totally and objectively ignore the vicious garbage that spews from these people's petty minds and filthy mouths. What about everyone else in the room around them who can't filter it out because they are too young or they have never heard anyone speak with compassion for fellow man before?</p><p></p><p>If I find out that my Campbell's Tomato Soup is manufactured by a company that uses the profits from my tomato soup to launder money from the human s-e-x slave industry in Indonesia, I'm not going to buy that soup or anything else they make anymore, and I'm going to tell them and the whole world why. Extreme example? Yes. Substantially different? No.</p><p></p><p>I think that aggressively offensive people don't deserve a voice in our society, whether it's a rapper playing it up like he's a p-i-m-p, a fat white cat talking down the poorest people in our society that deserve a hand up out of their poverty, or an overly made-up pseudo-legal expert jumping to judgment as entertainment to keep a lie going because it makes her money.</p><p></p><p>So, Howard Stern went to pay only radio and got a huge bonus because he got millions of people to sign up for the programming. Bully for him. What a sad statement about our society.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 35845, member: 99"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sara PA</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> He also had some generally tasteless, annoying satirical skits, but it seems like most who watched/listened for the politics went to the bathroom or took their showers when those were on. Most people seemed to just igore them. </div></div> I have to qualify my response to this by admitting that I don't watch Don Imus, Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al. I just find them to be generally too aggressive for my taste and it upsets me. There's enough hatred in the world without my turning on the radio or tv to watch it on purpose. I'd rather look at something uplifting. I can get non-biased news reporting from NPR, and no one is ever going to comment on someone's body or color or race or sex or sexual orientation in a demeaning way. EVER. As far as listening to what interests you and ignoring what offends you ("ignore" mind you, not "leave the room"), I think that is telling the people producing the programs that what offends you is just fine as long as it entertains someone else. And indeed, people have free choice to listen to what they want to hear, and not to what they don't want to hear. (Just as I get to have my opinion about it.) And more power to people if they can sit in the room and totally and objectively ignore the vicious garbage that spews from these people's petty minds and filthy mouths. What about everyone else in the room around them who can't filter it out because they are too young or they have never heard anyone speak with compassion for fellow man before? If I find out that my Campbell's Tomato Soup is manufactured by a company that uses the profits from my tomato soup to launder money from the human s-e-x slave industry in Indonesia, I'm not going to buy that soup or anything else they make anymore, and I'm going to tell them and the whole world why. Extreme example? Yes. Substantially different? No. I think that aggressively offensive people don't deserve a voice in our society, whether it's a rapper playing it up like he's a p-i-m-p, a fat white cat talking down the poorest people in our society that deserve a hand up out of their poverty, or an overly made-up pseudo-legal expert jumping to judgment as entertainment to keep a lie going because it makes her money. So, Howard Stern went to pay only radio and got a huge bonus because he got millions of people to sign up for the programming. Bully for him. What a sad statement about our society. [/QUOTE]
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