Howard Stern

[Private420]

I was wondering what all of you thought about the recent FCC rules on indecency and obsenity. They are basically destroying freedom of speech in this country and are specifically targeting Howard Stern for his anti-Bush values. Does anyone else see this as serious evidence that Bush is essentially trying to take america back to 1950? Arent u all worried?

Check out howards website for facts on this issue: http://207.36.132.69/Home%20Page_fil...%20Reading.htm

[Subjugation]

ive been scared shitless ever since district attorneys started prosecuting regular criminals using the patriot act.

Jeb Bush in 2008? I wonder if it will ever end.

[uranium]

my mom and i were listening to howard on the way to school today and he was saying how if he is getting fined then oprah should because i guess they were talking about how to give oral sex on her show. he was going to play the sound clip of it on his show i dont know if he ever did i had to go to school but anyway he was saying how if he plays it they cant fine him or they would have to fine oprah and that they wouldnt do it to her and that if they didnt then it would throw out the whole case....

[THE ENFORCER]

ummm since radio programs are accessible by everyone (including children) i think the government has every right to decide what goes on air or what doesnt as long as they provide a framework(<--- important) if howard went on cable then the government doesnt have such a right to interefere with howard , i mean if there was a radio station that played porn noises would you protect that under freedom of speech for little children can hear it?

Btw im not bashing howard cause i think hes awesome and i loved his film.

[uranium]

you can easily turn the radio station and kids can also watch oprah.....

[THE ENFORCER]

you can easily turn the radio station and kids can also watch oprah.....

Whats wrong with oprah? about turning off the radio station its abit of a grey area because kids can still hear it in passing or the fact that kids dont have proper judgement they wont turn it off. But i suppose if howard stern plays his program between school hours (not during holidays) or extremely late at night i cant really see the problem with that, its the same with T.V only the MA and AV type programs come on late at night on public access.

[DoTheFandango]

Whats wrong with oprah? about turning off the radio station its abit of a grey area because kids can still hear it in passing or the fact that kids dont have proper judgement they wont turn it off. But i suppose if howard stern plays his program between school hours (not during holidays) or extremely late at night i cant really see the problem with that, its the same with T.V only the MA and AV type programs come on late at night on public access.

Oprah was talking about "Tossing Salads" some time last week.

And not Caeser...

[Jerome Scuggs]

sigh

[Liquid Blue]

I wouldn't be surprised if Opra started all the nonsesne involving Howard in the first place, seeing as how 70% of the soccer moms that are flipping out against him watch her show.

[Jerome Scuggs]

we should kill howards stern and oprah

[THE ENFORCER]

we should kill howards stern and oprah

I find it funny how you go from forum to forum posting one line comments that dont really add to the discussion.......

[THE ENFORCER]

Oprah was talking about "Tossing Salads" some time last week.
And not Caeser...

ah hah............................................... ..............

[bloodzombie]

Whats wrong with oprah? about turning off the radio station its abit of a grey area because kids can still hear it in passing or the fact that kids dont have proper judgement they wont turn it off. But i suppose if howard stern plays his program between school hours (not during holidays) or extremely late at night i cant really see the problem with that, its the same with T.V only the MA and AV type programs come on late at night on public access.

You're missing some major points here.

The FCC has discretion to fine people for indecency... They don't, however, have any guidelines for what is indecent, so essentially, they can just make it up. According to the consititution, the only things not allowed to be broadcast on the radio are the seven dirty words (the really bad ones, you can figure it out).

Howard stern has been a supporter of Bush and his war efforts ever since 9/11. a little while ago, howard decided that he didn't like anything else about bush, so he was going to support kerry in this election. a few days later Clear Channel removed howard from all of their stations (6 cities, 3 of which were major areas in swing states). Clear channel also fired another of their DJ's who was also anti-bush (keep in mind that no fines were imposed against howard at this time, clear channel just said that they wanted to clean up their act). They've got a guy named elliott in the morning who HAS fines pending from the FCC, but he hasn't been fired. elliott apparently isn't anti-bush.

Bush signed a law earlier in his term allowing large corporations to buy more radio stations. Clear channel gives a lot of money to bush's campaign.

Now they're working on a law where they can fine the artists directly, where previously they could only fine the stations for things that they let out onto their airwaves. so picture this... a broadcaster says the words "anal sex" in a context that the FCC finds offensive.. this broadcaster is on 50 stations nation-wide.. they want to be able to fine him PER STATION that it went out on, with a cap of 3 million dollars per day.

imagine that.. they can decide at any moment that something you said was indecent, and fine you 3 million dollars... and the president appoints the head of the FCC... (Bush appointed Colin Powell's son). There's something wrong here.

Also, they plan on going after cable tv and satelite radio next.

This isn't a howard stern issue... a lot of people just don't like howard so they say "who cares?"... if you live in the US, and you're not part of the fundamental religious right wing, you should care.

[bloodzombie]

this is what the oprah reference is all about:

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21346.htm

[Mattey]

I blame Janet Jackson's nipple.