August 16, 2005

Speechless....uh....Poemless

Garrison Keillor's radio show was briefly taken off the air in Kentucky over concerns of "offensive content." Must have been pretty bad to get kicked off the air.

WUKY-FM, based in Lexington, canceled the show in early August. The daily spot runs a few minutes and features Keillor noting important milestones in writing history, after which he typically reads a poem.

Recent poems had included words such as "breast" and the phrase "get high." Another included suggestive sexual content, according to WUKY General Manager Tom Goddell.

He said there were no listener complaints, but station officials had worried about recent moves by the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on language it considered obscene.

"There's been something like $18 million in fines in the last year," Goddell told The Associated Press. "That's enough to get our attention."

Breast.

I don't know what to say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050816/ap_en_ot/people_keillor

Posted by mike at August 16, 2005 11:35 AM
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Speechless!

Posted by: Cam on August 17, 2005 08:15 PM
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