{"id":132,"date":"2002-08-22T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/?p=132"},"modified":"2002-08-22T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-23T04:21:00","slug":"i-guess-speech-isnt-that-free-in-the-us-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/2002\/08\/22\/i-guess-speech-isnt-that-free-in-the-us-anymore","title":{"rendered":"I guess speech isn’t that free in the US anymore -…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess speech isn’t that free in the US anymore – my favorite afternoon radio show “Opie & Anthony” has just been cancelled<\/a>. Doesn’t this “Catholic League<\/a>” have better things to do, like make sure that child-molesting priests get put behind bars? There’s even an article about this incident from as far as Manila<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The thing that really sucks about them being sacked is that they weren’t going against FCC<\/a> (the body that mandates radio and TV) rules… it’s not much worse than say, a regular Howard Stern show (although Opie and Anthony can really get raunchy sometimes). They were just singled out by this Catholic group because the listeners of their show were doing a sex stunt in St. Patrick’s cathedral. Granted, they have all rights to get angry for having\/simulating sex inside the church. As a Catholic, that act angers me as well (although you have to admit that it’s kinda funny). The problem is that O&A really didn’t put a gun to these people’s heads to do the deed, did they? So why single them out for punishment? At the most, they should have just been fined a few thousand dollars. Unfortunately, the heads of these stupid radio stations have balls of mush and would rather side with public opinion rather than free speech. After all, O&A is just plain entertainment. If you don’t want to listen to them, turn the damn radio off.<\/p>\n

Afternoon radio will never be the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess speech isn’t that free in the US anymore – my favorite afternoon radio show “Opie & Anthony” has just been cancelled. Doesn’t this “Catholic League” have better things to do, like make sure that child-molesting priests get put behind bars? There’s even an article about this incident from as far as Manila. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}