Shock jock
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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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 P?tomane, to name a few). Shock jocks, as the current incarnation of this phenomenon, entered the American radio scene during the 1980s, and are still common into the 2000s.
Radio: Radio is the wireless transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light.... Disk jockey: REDIRECT Disc jockey... Humor: REDIRECT Humour... Shock jock related Images and Photos (experimental) | ~ Table of Content ~
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