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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Wed May 10, 2017, 06:35 PM May 2017

Arizona radio station removes child pornography announcement

Source: Associated Press


Paul Davenport, Associated Press

Updated 5:00 pm, Wednesday, May 10, 2017


PHOENIX (AP) — An oldies country music radio station serving a rural Arizona area that aired a public service announcement for two years telling people how to hide potential evidence in child pornography cases has stopped doing so after advertisers received threats, the station's owner said Wednesday

KAVV-FM owner Paul Lotsof said in an interview that he does not like child pornography but created the announcement because he thinks Arizona's 10-year minimum sentence for each image of child porn is too harsh and costly for taxpayers.

"Nobody put me up to it, and nobody paid," he said. "My feeling is that these people don't deserve life in prison just because they have pictures of naked juveniles."

But recent public comment about the announcement was "99.9 percent" negative and some radio station advertisers received threats, he said. The signal of the radio station from the small southeastern Arizona city of Benson beams across a wide area that stretches toward the Mexico border.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Arizona-radio-station-removes-child-pornography-11136603.php

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Arizona radio station removes child pornography announcement (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2017 OP
Would he feel the same if it were his naked children guillaumeb May 2017 #1
Probably alfredo May 2017 #18
This guy is kidding - right?? Marie Marie May 2017 #2
Benson, Arizona Dave Starsky May 2017 #3
One of the best movies, ever! nt SeattleVet May 2017 #14
This ran for 2 years! BumRushDaShow May 2017 #4
Or Evangelical Christian Radio dbackjon May 2017 #11
Yup and I've heard it BumRushDaShow May 2017 #17
Explaining how to hide evidence of child pornography is not a Public Service Announcment... Thor_MN May 2017 #5
Oh, gawd not fooled May 2017 #6
Quick! dawn frenzy adams May 2017 #7
I'd be willing to bet this guy has a giant stash of it hidden somewhere. Initech May 2017 #8
could be - he is kind of a kook - BUT... Kali May 2017 #10
I would say "pretty stupid" pretty much covers it. Dave Starsky May 2017 #19
You're not alone. I was stunned seeing how short the sentences are, considering the damage done Judi Lynn May 2017 #13
OMG Kali May 2017 #9
Sick The Mouth May 2017 #12
Who Listens to this Station? Edina May 2017 #15
WOW I wonder how many needed the advice in the area lunasun May 2017 #16

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
4. This ran for 2 years!
Wed May 10, 2017, 07:06 PM
May 2017

And note - Democrats keep ignoring "radio". So much of rural America only has "radio" (and low-powered AM to boot) to get current info - and much of it is filled up with the usual RW gasbag lineup.

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
17. Yup and I've heard it
Thu May 11, 2017, 05:59 AM
May 2017

when visiting Memphis, TN years ago, dubbing their location as the "buckle of the Bible belt".

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
6. Oh, gawd
Wed May 10, 2017, 07:18 PM
May 2017

"Error-zona" strikes again.

Red and dumb (in many parts; does have Raul Grijalva and bright spots in Phoenix and Tucson).

The Deep South of the South West.

Initech

(100,079 posts)
8. I'd be willing to bet this guy has a giant stash of it hidden somewhere.
Wed May 10, 2017, 07:45 PM
May 2017

Why else would he say that child porn laws are too harsh? If anything I don't think they're harsh enough.

Kali

(55,009 posts)
10. could be - he is kind of a kook - BUT...
Wed May 10, 2017, 08:18 PM
May 2017

he owns this station and it may be a first amendment thing, I don't know. it would be pretty stupid to have child porn and make those kind of announcements on the air.

SCANDAL!!!

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
19. I would say "pretty stupid" pretty much covers it.
Thu May 11, 2017, 01:57 PM
May 2017

I can't even imagine how this guy spends his spare time.

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
13. You're not alone. I was stunned seeing how short the sentences are, considering the damage done
Wed May 10, 2017, 09:51 PM
May 2017

to these children who lose their childhoods and self-respect.

Kali

(55,009 posts)
9. OMG
Wed May 10, 2017, 08:13 PM
May 2017

the CAVE - that is the local station. he even has an antenna on our state lease. (horrible, I can't listen to it, though the guy is OK about going after the corrupt local city council)



The Mouth

(3,150 posts)
12. Sick
Wed May 10, 2017, 09:08 PM
May 2017

I'm not against everyone and anyone being able to completely hide any and all info via encryption, but I'd bet cash this guy has a stash of sick stuff.

Edina

(22 posts)
15. Who Listens to this Station?
Wed May 10, 2017, 10:54 PM
May 2017

Who listens to this radio station that an ad like that would be on for 2 years in the first place?
Revolting. Probably a closet perv himself. Creep.

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