Letters: Sanitizing Radio

The FCC warning to radio stations about the use of offensive language and material on the air is an insult to the public (NATION, April 27). Americans should be allowed to decide on their own what is indecent. When they are , offended by what they hear, listeners can change the station or turn off the radio.

Mary Alice Wood

Quincy, Mass.

The stock response "If you don't like it, you don't have to listen" is a phony argument. No one has the right to foul the airways any more than he has a right to foul the streets. God bless...

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