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Time to end censorship of public airwaves
Posted Jan 18, 2012
Media Outlet:
Philadelphia Daily News
The FCC has intimidated National Public Radio, says Burton Caine, a professor at Temple's Beasley School of Law, in an opinion piece. NPR used to broadcast readings from Ulysses and bleeped sexual allusions. In response to objections of censorship, NPR banned the reading altogether. Freedom of speech is the most fundamental freedom. It is time for public radio, which receives free license to broadcast, to practice and protect that right not only for itself but, more importantly, for all, Caine wrote.