New distribution technologies let creators evade content norms authorities once enforced

Evidence

But the Super Bowl fiasco also marked one of the last times central authorities could enforce limits on content. In February 2004, when Rick Salomon showed up on Howard Stern’s radio show, the two men discussed lurid sexual preferences and Salomon boasted of bedding an underaged Drew Barrymore. Then a listener called in and used racial epithets. Clear Channel suspended Stern and later fired him. Sirius Satellite Radio stepped in to steal the shock jock with a $500 million deal. The saga proved that new forms of technology would always be there to let creators get away with evading norms—and this was just the beginning. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 151

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports Marx’s mechanism of internet-collapsed distribution destroying centralized gatekeeping — the very channel-leveling claim the reader wants to trace across the four periods. — connects to: Digital tools let ordinary users produce celebrity by bypassing corporate gatekeepers — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 76; The web enabled mass amateurization of creative work formerly reserved for professionals — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 905
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 151