CHARLES NUSBAUM is the CEO and President of Old City web services, the website designer for the City of St. Augustine.
CHARLES NUSBAUM is an angry man who mocks and insults reformers on his radio program, which may have landed WFOY radio in hot water with the Federal Communications Commission -- CHARLES NUSBAUM allegedly used two of the "seven dirty words" on his radio program earlier this week in denouncing progressives and reformers who want to stop the pollution and waste by the City of St. Augustine.
Will CHARLES NUSBAUM cause WFOY to be fined by the Federal Communications Commission for indecency?
See below:
October 31, 2008
Ms. Kris Phillips
Owner, WFOY-AM
527 Lewis Point Road
St. Augustine, Florida 32086 via fax to 797-3446
Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. I am reliably informed that Mr. CHARLES NUSBAUM’s obscenity-laden radio broadcast on WFOY earlier this week:
(a) Repeatedly used two of the “seven dirty words” prohibited by FCC and the Supreme Court precedent;
(b) Slandered me and hurled pejoratives and accusations at me and others, holding us to obloquy, ridicule and defamation, in retaliation for protected activity under the environmental whistleblower laws, e.g., reporting environmental crimes by the City of St. Augustine to federal and state law enforcement authorities, including 40,000 cubic yards of solid waste illegally dumped in the Old City Reservoir, dumping treated sewage effluent from a leaking, shredded pipe in our saltwater marsh (with 120 feet of pipe missing). This is deeply offensive. NUSBAUM’s rantings are intended to chill protected activity under the First Amendment and environmental whistleblower laws.
2. CHARLES NUSBAUM wrote on the Plazabum.com website that this he does not pay for broadcast time. If this is true, I don’t reckon the revenue stream (zero) is worth it for WFOY, because NUSBAUM and WFOY could be sued for defamation every time Mr. NUSBAUM is on the air.
3. The First Amendment, in its majesty, protects CHARLES NUSBAUM’s right to free speech. But the First Amendment does not immunize NUSBAUM from being sued for defamation, fraud, blacklisting and other torts.
4. CHARLES NUSBAUM’s apparent outrage at my reporting environmental violations to federal and state authorities and accusing me of “costing the city and county money” is irrational, as was his mischaracterizing the nature of the pollution problems in our City. Having been a guest on your radio station several times, I know that you have higher standards.
5. CHARLES NUSBAUM’s hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment. Hate speech like NUSBAUM’s program does not belong on a family radio station.
6. May I suggest that you tape future NUSSBAUM broadcasts and consider sharing them with your FCC lawyer in Washington, D.C.?
7. By the way, when I tried to E-mail this message, it was twice returned with a message from your ISP, oldcity.com, stating inter alia, “SMTP; 554 Sorry, message looks like SPAM to me.” The message indicates that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is “oldcity.com” (of which CHARLES NUSBAUM is President and CEO).
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
ED SLAVIN
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
P.O. Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
904-471-7023
904-471-9918 (fax).
Sorehead Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything (SWINE) CHUCK NUSBAUM
(with a tip of the hat to cartoonist Al Capp, whose "Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything" (SWINE) was part of the vintage comic strip, "L'il Abner."
Mr. Slavin,
ReplyDeleteMr. Nusbaum needs to be taken off the air if what you say is true. Do you have a recording of the program? I don't know what those 7 words are, can you put them in your blog so we know what they are? I guess you need to leave some of the letters blank, but my husband and I would like to know so we can listen to that station and make sure they don't use them again.
If you don't have a recording of the show, can't Mr. Nusbaum sue you? Aren't you worried?
I don't know where the resorvoir that you mentioned is. I thought that the city dumped stuff into the borrow pits of of Holmes Blvd. Are they where the city gets it's water? Why do they allow houses and businesses, especially the junk yards so close to them? Shoulden't you do something about this too?
Mrs. E. Johnson