FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                               Contact:  Rick Chessen
May 18, 2000                                                (202) 418-2300
                                
Commissioner Gloria Tristani Objects to Dismissal of Indecency Complaint 
               Against "Don and Mike" Radio Show 
                                
     Washington, D.C.  

The Enforcement Bureau of the FCC has issued a letter dismissing an indecency complaint
filed by Flora Barton, Jose Armas and the National Latino Media Council arising out of an airing
of the "Don and Mike Show" on WJFK-FM.  Among other things, the complaint dealt with a
"Spanish lesson," in which the hosts instructed a woman to repeat graphic sexual terms. 

     Commissioner Gloria Tristani said, "My initial view is that this material is actionably
indecent, and that the Commission has failed to discharge its obligation to protect our children
from indecent material on the public airwaves.  Unfortunately, this is not an isolated instance.  The
Commission appears so averse to indecency cases, and has erected so many barriers to complaints
from members of the public, that indecency enforcement has become virtually non-existent.  It's
time for the Commission to begin taking indecency cases seriously again.  It's our duty to the law,
and, more importantly, our duty to our children."

     Copies of the Enforcement Bureau letter and Commissioner Tristani's Press Statement are
attached.