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You do realize that until recent years people who broadcast over the public airwaves were required to meet very strict decency standards, don't you? What's happening here is a correction of the slippery slope we've been on for the past 20 or so years.

This issue once again proves the ignorance our citizens have of the Constitution. The First Amendment protects the right of POLITICAL speech, or at least it did until the Supreme Court ruled that the Campaign Finance Reform law is constitutional. The First Amendment never gave everyone in the US the right to say every filthy thing on the public airwaves. Stations have licenses and they must meet the requirements to keep those licenses. Broadcasting is NOT a constitutional right. The companies who hold those licenses have every right to fire employees who do not comply with the license requirements. I saw the clip of Clear Channel's CEO testifying before Congress yesterday in which he said that as the company president and the father of a nine-year-old girl, he has the responsibility to monitor what goes out on Clear Channel stations. He is totally correct. If you disagree, don't listen to Clear Channel stations (Rush, Glenn Beck, Hannity etc). They won't miss you.

And what will come next is a return to liberal control, eventually. Your decency standards will become theirs, and what they consider indecent you shrug at, while what you consider indecent they laugh.

If you'd only realize you sow what you reap, you'd be for loosening the FCC controls entirely and letting the 'public airwaves' be sold off as private property already. Or do you really believe that practically GIVING this airspace away to major corporations is in the public interest? Wouldn't it be nice if you had one favorite radio station, the same FM radio station, that you could listen to as you drove coast to coast? Wouldn't it be great if you could see webcasts of your favorite TV shows? You'll never have either one as long as the FCC is 'controlling transmission.'

If you really think that the FCC and 'decency standards' are a positive overall, why not have a similar vetting board for on newspapers, magazines, and books? How about DVDs and computer programs? Surely these media are equally important to the decency of our nation?