4-8-13
In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, former FCC chairman Reed Hundt says its time the government put pressure on Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the name of his football team. "Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television," he wrote.
Hundt writes, "Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves. Almost all of us adults who grew up as Washington football fans used, without thinking, a name for the hometown team that is now clearly inappropriate." If broadcasters follow their own tradition, they will insist that Snyder no longer put them in the intolerable position of using a derogatory term to describe his team. So, too, should the FCC applaud broadcasters for pursuing the name change." Read Hundt's piece HERE
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