Arizona radio station removes child pornography announcement
Source: Associated Press
Paul Davenport, Associated Press
Updated 5:00 pm, Wednesday, May 10, 2017
PHOENIX (AP) An oldies country music radio station serving a rural Arizona area that aired a public service announcement for two years telling people how to hide potential evidence in child pornography cases has stopped doing so after advertisers received threats, the station's owner said Wednesday
KAVV-FM owner Paul Lotsof said in an interview that he does not like child pornography but created the announcement because he thinks Arizona's 10-year minimum sentence for each image of child porn is too harsh and costly for taxpayers.
"Nobody put me up to it, and nobody paid," he said. "My feeling is that these people don't deserve life in prison just because they have pictures of naked juveniles."
But recent public comment about the announcement was "99.9 percent" negative and some radio station advertisers received threats, he said. The signal of the radio station from the small southeastern Arizona city of Benson beams across a wide area that stretches toward the Mexico border.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Arizona-radio-station-removes-child-pornography-11136603.php
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)that were the subjects?
Or his wife?
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)That is just vile.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)What a fucked-up world we live in.
SeattleVet
(5,468 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)And note - Democrats keep ignoring "radio". So much of rural America only has "radio" (and low-powered AM to boot) to get current info - and much of it is filled up with the usual RW gasbag lineup.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)when visiting Memphis, TN years ago, dubbing their location as the "buckle of the Bible belt".
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)"Error-zona" strikes again.
Red and dumb (in many parts; does have Raul Grijalva and bright spots in Phoenix and Tucson).
The Deep South of the South West.
dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)Somebody check his computer.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Why else would he say that child porn laws are too harsh? If anything I don't think they're harsh enough.
Kali
(54,990 posts)he owns this station and it may be a first amendment thing, I don't know. it would be pretty stupid to have child porn and make those kind of announcements on the air.
SCANDAL!!!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I can't even imagine how this guy spends his spare time.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)to these children who lose their childhoods and self-respect.
the CAVE - that is the local station. he even has an antenna on our state lease. (horrible, I can't listen to it, though the guy is OK about going after the corrupt local city council)
The Mouth
(3,123 posts)I'm not against everyone and anyone being able to completely hide any and all info via encryption, but I'd bet cash this guy has a stash of sick stuff.
Edina
(22 posts)Who listens to this radio station that an ad like that would be on for 2 years in the first place?
Revolting. Probably a closet perv himself. Creep.