Clear Channel's version of moral values.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

Radio breast enlargement contest blasted
Women's groups urge supporters to file complaints

TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has come under fire from women's health advocates over a Christmas contest in which stations granted breast enlargement surgeries to women in four cities.

In the "Breast Christmas Ever" contest, 13 women were awarded the procedure after writing essays to the stations explaining why they wanted larger breasts. A Tampa station claimed to receive more than 91,000 entries.

Clear Channel said it had nothing to do with the contest and that it was a decision by local station managers to hold the promotion. The contest was aired on Clear Channel stations in Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Louis and Detroit.

The contest has drawn the ire of both the National Research Center for Women & Families and the National Organization for Women. NOW has urged its supporters to file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission against Clear Channel and its stations.

The controversy comes within months of Clear Channel paying a record $1.75 million fine to resolve indecency complaints against New York-based shock jock Howard Stern, Tampa radio personality "Bubba the Love Sponge" and others. The station formally agreed to "clean up its act," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in June.


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[LearnedHand]

1. But it's DIFFERENT when they do it!

:puke: Fuckin' hypocrites. :puke:

[davidinalameda]

2. and in other Clear Channel news

they just re-signed Michael "Savage" Weiner to a new contract

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. the FCC is unelected

we must take them down

[Maat]

4. This is just so Rethuglican/Conservative.

I grew up in a conservative household in, basically, the 60's and 70's. In all of my 46 years, nearly to a conservative, everyone I have met leads two lives. They have their public/societal facade ('George Bush, Our Leader,'), and they have their toddler/private/other side (e.g. my mother's boyfriend taking her to get a certain illegal procedure while he was publicly condemning such procedures).

I think, in the end, they just believe in 'strict father morality,' or a patriarchal society like the 50's, and that is just the bottom line. I have to tell them, 'No, I'm not going back to that kind of society. Don't want to be a Stepford wife. Live with it.' That is why they have to legislate their 'public side' morality.

In the end, it is about disrespecting women, children, gay and lesbian persons as a group, etc. I get so frustrated just thinking about it.

[zbdent]

5. Who needs Howard Stern for radio indecency?

These turds were doing it themselves - no Stern involvement.

AND YET ON A CLEAR CHANNEL STATION!

[liberal N proud]

6. Do as I say, not as I do n/t

[alexisfree]

7. what a fucking retards!!

:argh: