Radio Free America

August, 1987

What we are doing here today is to correct an altogether too narrow interpretation of decency.—FCC Chairman Dennis PatrickOn April 16, 1987, the Federal Communications Commission changed the rules of the game. Henceforth, when disc jockeys mention sex, even through innuendo, double-entendre or playful language, they risk censure by the FCC. They may no longer talk about sex with impunity, even if they avoid the famous seven dirty words banned in a 1976 FCC ruling (shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksuc...

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