WP/AP: Radio Station Won't Cancel Keillor's Show

[DeepModem Mom]

Radio Station Won't Cancel Keillor's Show
By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 16, 2005


MINNEAPOLIS -- A public radio station in Kentucky has reversed its decision to cancel Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac" over concerns about offensive content, after what station officials said was an outpouring of support.

WUKY-FM, based in Lexington, canceled the show in early August. The daily spot runs a few minutes and features Keillor noting important milestones in writing history, after which he typically reads a poem.

Recent poems had included words such as "breast" and the phrase "get high." Another included suggestive sexual content, according to WUKY General Manager Tom Goddell.

He said there were no listener complaints, but station officials had worried about recent moves by the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on language it considered obscene.

"There's been something like $18 million in fines in the last year," Goddell told The Associated Press. "That's enough to get our attention."...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081600426.html

[Wickerman]

1. there's the fine - AND, he IS an infamous liberal

:eyes:

whole lot of nothing about nothing.

[nosmokes]

13. OFFS. the standards police are gonna be raiding KFC...

and poultry will now be sold in packages marked white meat and dark meat, no more of that breast and thigh business for you, ya freaky prevet.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. That is exactly what the fuckwads in charge want

they want low-budget small-minded public station administrations to fear something this silly.

[LisaM]

3. "The Night Before Christmas" has the word breast

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
gave the lustre of midday to objects below,
when, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.

So does "Trees", by Joyce Kilmer

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast


Is THAT what they're talking about?

[Gman]

4. He said "breast" on the radio and no one complained?

The fundies must have missed it.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Getiing high?

I'm sure Limbaugh will be all over that one.

[Daphne08]

6. I LOVE Garrison Keillor!

[deminks]

7. Well, I am glad they reversed their decision, but

this was some kind of pre-emptive censorship because of who he is. I can't count the number of times I have heard the word breast on the media in the last week. I have a feeling that the only suggestion was in this general manager chipmunk's mind.

[maxsolomon]

8. one time i was listening to writer's almanac during dinner

and the reception was bad, so i had to stop eating my chicken BREAST & GET HIGH up on the roof to adjust the antennae.

christ, the show should be cancelled for being BORING, not OBSCENE. get a grip, management!

[Gato Moteado]

9. unbelievable

why can't the white trash just be happy controlling all the radio media other than the one local station at the far left end of the dial where none of the rednecks dare venture anyways?

[demnan]

10. Yeah this guy is really controversial

Prarie Home Companion is really a filthy pornographic show too - that's why it's been on the radio without complaint for like 30 years.

I think maybe Gary threw in an anti-war poem or two and that pissed the freepers off.

[VegasWolf]

11. Whoa Now!! He said "breast" on RADIO. What is this damn country

coming to? The libruls are takin over.

[Up2Late]

12. I guess the local T.V. is going to have to censor the KFC commercials

No more talk about them thar' Chicken Breasts!

Yes, I'm sure "the Kids" are listening to Garrison for the odd mention of Brest and "Gettin' High." :eyes:

[lateo]

14. People stopped getting fined last year....

right before the election...