Thursday, February 02, 2006

A Non-Issue

Howard Stern is back in Canada. Fine. Who cares? I didn't care when he was introduced the first time, I didn't care when he got canned from Toronto radio, and I don't care that he's back again, this time on Sirius Canada.

One thing, though - Stern was never censored by the Canadian government. Rather, both Q107 and CHOM in Toronto and Montreal received massive amounts of listener complaints from his show, and both stations - independent of any government action - dropped him.

The one argument for a "censorship" angle would be that both stations had to monitor Stern's show to make sure it complied with Canadian broadcast standards, but so does every word uttered on Canadian radio and television, so Stern wasn't being singled out or anything.

Anyway, continue to love or hate him, as you were before this came back up again.

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