How to End the Reign of Shock Jocks

HOW TO END THE REIGN OF SHOCK JOCKS
[SOURCE: Media is a Plural, AUTHOR: Rory Connor]
[Commentary] Other than the desire to shock listeners -- and thereby create controversy, grow audiences and sell advertising -- the current spate of repulsive shock-jock gibberish all share something else: a salary from CBS. Once peacock-proud of their self-styled “Tiffany” network -- so-called for its supposed devotion to quality -- the corporate heirs of William Paley traded public service for private profit long ago. But now no amount of filthy lucre can perfume away the stench wafting from the current trench of programming sewage being shoveled our way of late by such CBS on-air alleged ‘talent’ as Opie & Anthony, JV and Elvis, and Don “I-Man” Imus.
http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/05/15/the-imus-effect-cbs-shock-joc...

* Listeners shocked by XM hosts' suspension
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Jim Puzzanghera and Amy Kaufman]
Satellite radio bills itself as the Wild West of the airwaves, an uncensored outpost beyond the reach of federal regulators where expletives fly with impunity and the banter can get as raunchy as at a strip club. But the decision this week by XM Satellite Radio to suspend shock jocks Opie and Anthony for 30 days for crude sexual comments about First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II has listeners wondering whether there's a new sheriff in town. Some XM listeners were outraged — not at the comments but at XM's reaction.
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-shockradio17may17,1,5...
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