The RIP thread...

The lineup was pretty stellar:

Chick Corea
Kenny Garrett
Wallace Roney
Mike Stern
Marcus Miller
Brian Blade

Lucky to be there on that weekend.

Rush Limbaugh.

That's cheered me up no end.

good. fuck that guy.

There’s a long list of hate/keech that spewed from that prick’s mouth. Off you pop you horrible cunt.

“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”

Rush Limbaugh.

Of Covid?

fuck that guy

This.

Previously denied a link between smoking and lung cancer.
Also a prescription drug abuser/addict.

Hopefully they'll strip the corpse of that Medal of Freedom before stuffing a head of garlic in its mouth and giving it a midnight burial at a crossroads.

Interesting to read about the abolition of the 'Fairness Doctrine'. I've often wondered why that style of broadcasting was allowed:

At KRBK Limbaugh began to attract attention. In 1987, during the Ronald Reagan era, the Federal Communications Commission repealed the Fairness Doctrine, which had required users of the public airwaves to allow equal time if they broadcast political opinion. This opened the floodgates to the likes of Limbaugh, and in 1988 he moved to WABC in New York, which became the flagship for a 56-station network broadcast of his show, scheduled, unusually for talk, at midday. By 1990 he had five million listeners.

Lots of charming little anecdotes in here:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/17/rush-limbaugh-obituary

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I'm not sure what is being planned currently, haven't read up on that, but I do think that media reports not being balanced can cause positions to become more extreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

Most differences of opinion tend towards moderation, and it's usually only a comparatively small number of people who hold extreme opinions. That is, if you present the general contrasting opinions of the day in 'equitable' fashion, there is then less room for the sort of anger that a seemingly deeply unhappy little man like Rush Limbaugh appears to have felt. Expressing that anger allowed him to divide people, both those who felt similar things and those who reacted in disgust. People entrench themselves, fire their views in a scattergun fashion into an endless stalemate, and being in the trench don't particularly aim to look at the stars.

I may be wrong, and I'd like to do more reading on the impact of this change, but this is how it seems to me to be likely to have gone.

Ah, just saw you've edited your post.

Sorry - my comment didn't really make sense as he thrived when a law to give time to opposite opinions was repealed, not brought in.

I guess my point, either way, is that laws to moderate the broadcast of opinion really don't work (outside of the obvious inciting hatred, racism etc).

Probably. I can only go by what the few Internet sources I've looked at so far suggest, that the repeal of this doctrine was responsible for shockjockery.

Perhaps it just naturally coincided with a greater desire to manipulate public opinion in divisive fashion and maybe that would have happened in some way even with it in place, I don't know.

Amen. Fuck that guy. Hope he's in a very warm place.

God damn I'm going to sleep well tonight.

top ranked Deathlist 2021 candidate just been admitted to hospital (Prince Philip)

Very classy, Elton.

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U Roy

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I just read about King Daddy U Roy,
peace up legend
Burn your flame bright eternally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2vMyqLWteM

Ah man, original DJ. Rest in peace.

Original toaster . A sad loss

U-Roy another great gone but his music lives on

😔 Another great one. RIP.

Thanks for that. I haven’t heard that album before.
RIP
https://youtu.be/C9yhge8W6ac

Mark Morales

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Markie_Dee

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