Howl Against Indecency

Frederic    off-topic    

Only in America: A judge decides a poem is not indecent in 1978. In 2004, a boob shows up on American TV and ruins a generation. In 2007, you can’t read Allen Ginsberg’s Howl on the radio without running the risk of being bankrupted:

Fifty years later, with draconian FCC fines for language infractions, you still can’t hear HOWL on the radio. That’s something to howl about. This October 3, WBAI and Pacifica Radio Network invite you to join our commemoration of Judge Horn’s ruling on behalf of free speech, by listening to a recording of the poet Allen Ginsberg, himself, reading the unadulterated HOWL.

If “Howl” is indecent, what is Jerry Springer? Rush Limbaugh? The Iraq war? Bush? Cheney?

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