I remember adults complaining about the music of my day. Doesn every generation of parents think their kids have gone too far?
Answer Yes, but we’re dealing with something especially vile today. As a case in point, you may remember the flap that occurred over the rap group 2 Live Crew and their album, As Nasty As They WannaWannaWanna Be. A Florida judge reviewed the filthy lyrics of this album, and, for the first time ever, a piece of “music” was declared to be obscene and illegal.107 Predictably, Phil Donahue (shortly before his show was canceled) and his cronies in the press threw their usual temper tantrums when the news broke. “Censorship!” they cried from the rooftops. Hundreds of newspaper editors and television commentators carried editorials and feature stories about the audacity of the judge who imposed his standard of morality on the rest of us. Dan Rather, on his show, “48 Hours,” made outlandish statements about our loss of freedoms in this era of oppression. And Geraldo Rivera risked getting his nose broken again by bringing 2 Live Crew and their critics face-to-face on his television show. What t
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