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A shock jock is a slang term used to describe a type of radio broadcaster (sometimes a disk jockey) who attracts attention using humor that a significant portion of the listening audience may find offensive. The term is usually used pejoratively to describe evocative or irreverent broadcasters whose manners and on air behavior is offensive to the speaker.
Background
The idea of a performer or entertainer that breaks taboos or places their careers in the realm of the currently offensive is not a new one. Despite insistences of some decency activists, there are few eras of history in which there have not existed notoriously offensive performers (Benny Bell, Le Pétomane, Redd Foxx and Lenny Bruce for example). Shock jocks, as the current incarnation of this phenomenon, entered the American radio scene during the 1970s, and are still common into the 2000s.
Shock jocks may be informally identified by a number of common behaviors or conditions. Many such broadcasters revel in the fact (or belief) that a good portion of their listening audience consists of people who strongly dislike them; which of course, is an ironic but welcome boost to the broadcaster's ratings.
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Wondering when we gave all our moral authority to the shock jocks.
Gmanpalooba (Gerrit Reimers) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:12:17 -0000
Wondering when we gave all our moral authority to the shock jocks.
RT @tnr: The Beck Supremacy: How did right-wing shock jocks become so obsessed with thrillers? http://bit.ly/5aSmGG
ishtarmuz (dale west) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:47:15 -0000
RT @tnr: The Beck Supremacy: How did right-wing shock jocks become so obsessed with thrillers? http://bit.ly/5aSmGG
RT @tnr: The Beck Supremacy: How did right-wing shock jocks become so obsessed with thrillers? http://bit.ly/5aSmGG
Jaison96 (Jaison Simmons) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:32:39 -0000
RT @tnr: The Beck Supremacy: How did right-wing shock jocks become so obsessed with thrillers? http://bit.ly/5aSmGG
Q: What do Mean Bullies do when they become adults? A: Papparazzi -Shock Jocks -TV Show Host Extremist, etc.-Too Hot 4 me Not my cup of tea.
scirillobarnes (Sandy Cirillo Barnes) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:52:23 -0000
Q: What do Mean Bullies do when they become adults? A: Papparazzi -Shock Jocks -TV Show Host Extremist, etc.-Too Hot 4 me Not my cup of tea.
@arabwel I maintain they're just over-the-hill shock jocks. still glad Combi got to open for them tho.
_caustic_ (Matt Fanale/Caustic) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:22:19 -0000
@arabwel I maintain they're just over-the-hill shock jocks. still glad Combi got to open for them tho.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maxwell_Show Thank god the maxwell show is off the air! That guy gave shock jocks everywhere a bad name
drphilman (Phil Torres) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:36:59 -0000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maxwell_Show Thank god the maxwell show is off the air! That guy gave shock jocks everywhere a bad name
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