Public radio station in NYC won't air "Howl" for fear of the FCC
Public radio station in NYC won’t air “Howl” for fear of the FCC
The FCC’s war on dirty words is having a chilling effect — even WBAI Pacifica, the radical radio station in NYC, is scared of airing Allen Ginsberg’s magnificent poem, Howl.
“Why, 50 years later after a judge ruled that children could read this poem, people are afraid the courts will say…
What a bunch of cowards.