One Man’s Campaign To Rid Radio of Smut Is Finally Paying Off

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

One Man’s Campaign To Rid Radio of Smut Is Finally Paying Off reports on a certain David Smith who clearly has too much time on his hands:

Starting in 1999, David Smith often began his days by setting a trap. His quarry: ‘Mancow’s Morning Madhouse,’ a Chicago drive-time radio show that Mr. Smith considered indecent.

At dawn, Mr. Smith, now 34 years old, would hit the record button on his boombox to document the broadcasts of Erich ‘Mancow’ Muller, who broadcasts his show to nine U.S. cities from Emmis Communications Corp.’s WKQK in Chicago. With the tape rolling, Mr. Smith hopped into a Saturn sedan so he could listen to the show while driving to work. When something struck him as offensive, he would make a note of it and later transcribe the day’s tape so he could fire off a detailed complaint to the Federal Communications Commission.

Perhaps I could recommend not listening to the show?

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