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'Playing in the FM Band' Review: A Free-Form Radio Legend

The trailer for this documentary shows today’s New Yorkers saying they had never heard of Steve Post. The film itself tries to make a case that they ought to have. ....

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CNN The History of Comedy December 5, 2021 07:26:00

all of a sudden words are beautiful ingredients to a great me melody. a great way to start an orchestra. i got carlin records and i remember my dad listening to it with me. he was english major. anything with word play and language he was always into it. despite the language he would still let me hear it. united states supreme court has ruled that government can act against broadcasters who present offensive material. the 5-4 decision up held a government reprimand of a radio station that broadcast a record of george carlin. wbai played a cut from filthy words from earlier routine of seven words you can never say on television in the context of a program they were doing in the midafternoon about contemporary language and attitudes towards language. ....

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CNN The History of Comedy December 5, 2021 07:27:00

The fcc took issue based on a complaint from a listener in his automobile at the time with his son, and he claimed that it was indecent. claimed it was an invasion of his privacy and his son shouldn t be subjected to that. seven words you couldn t say on television didn t exist before george carlin. it instantly goes into the court record and fcc and everybody pretends that these are the actual words. he created the very battle that was fought against him. the federal communications commission said new york s wbai was wrong in playing the record. though the fcc imposed no punishment immediately and the supreme court agreed. i was raised in time when using bad language was associated with people of low intelligence. he helped break that. ....

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When Guards in New York City's Jails Lie About Use of Force


When Guards in New York City’s Jails Lie About Use of Force
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Six years ago, New York City agreed to hold correction officers at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex more accountable for misconduct, as part of a legal settlement with federal prosecutors after years of complaints about abuses by guards.
But an analysis of a newly released database of disciplinary records, while limited, shows that violence by guards continues to be a problem in the city’s jail system. The records suggest that attempts by guards to cover up excessive use of force or other infractions have been pervasive. ....

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Bob Fass, Pioneer of Underground Radio, Dies at 87


Bob Fass, Pioneer of Underground Radio, Dies at 87
His provocative “Radio Unnameable,” long a staple of the New York station WBAI, offered a home on the FM dial to everyone from Abbie Hoffman to Tiny Tim.
Bob Fass on the air at the New York FM station WBAI in 1972. “I’d put anyone on,” he once said, “because the idea was if you didn’t like what I was doing, three minutes later I’d be doing something else.”Credit.Donal F. Holway/The New York Times
April 25, 2021Updated 10:48 a.m. ET
Bob Fass, who for more than 50 years hosted an anarchic and influential radio show on New York’s countercultural FM station WBAI that mixed political conversation, avant-garde music, serendipitous encounters and outright agitation, died on Saturday in Monroe, N.C., where he lived in recent years. He was 87. ....

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