Friday, July 15, 2005
 
Poor Form, Peter
A radio station here in St. Louis suspends two morning personalities who had an on-air discussion of how to fight cops effectively. Yes, that's crass and abominable, but free speech and all that. The radio station has taken steps and public outcry should lead to outright firings and "you'll never work in this town again!"-esque corporate blacklisting. None of which is censorship because the government isn't involved.

This, on the other hand, is very, very bad:
    But O'Fallon sergeant Tom Otten is far from satisfied by the punishment. "What does a suspension do? It does nothing. That shows a horrible lack of character and moral judgment"[sic]

    If the deejays aren't fired, Otten vows to write and call his fellow officers to have them contact the KATZ advertisers, and urge them to remove their ads.
Law enforcement officials, even if acting unofficially, should not urge businesses to do anything other than obey the law. Because this police-urged boycott does lend itself to censorship.


- posted by Brian J. @ 7:41 AM
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