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Newsgroups: oh.general
Subject: Re: Email to the President: Converting listeners by radio
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From 'Victor Schneider, Ph. D.':
>I wonder if the FCC has any regulations banning AM and FM stations from
>telling their listeners to "keep their ears glued to this station" and
>explaining how "relaxing" their music is and how you just have to listen
>every day?  And, these are by far not the most extreme examples.
>
>This came to mind the other morning when I tuned in to WLW in Cincinatti
>on my magic AM radio and heard the talk station host making a really
>outrageous and amateurish hypnotic induction with the purpose of "making
>converts" to his radio station and who knows what else.

If you're worried about a talk show host pretending to play hypnotist, may I
suggest that there are more important things to worry about?

<rant>
Of course, if you happen to be from the Cincinnati area - and I suspect you
aren't, due to the crossposting; I suspect you're down in Texas - but if you
are in the Cincinnati area, it doesn't surprise me that you'd complain about
something as trivial as what looks like a stupid radio stunt, as an "abuse
of free speech". Intolerance is rampant in southwest Ohio (I went to school
in Dayton for two years and had the pleasure of dealing with some of it).
You'd better be white, heterosexual, practice some flavor of Christianity 
and not have any weird political views if you live down there, or you're not
likely to make many friends.
</rant>

>Well, if the FCC isn't interested in this

Get a life. And no, I doubt the FCC will be interested in this.


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