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Howard Stern suspended from Clear Channel stations
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| 2-25-04
Posted on 02/25/2004 4:37:39 PM PST by Indy Pendance
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shock jock Howard Stern's show was yanked Wednesday from Clear Channel Communications Inc. radio stations after an incident on his show Tuesday, the first casualty of its zero tolerance policy on indecency.
"It was vulgar, offensive and insulting, not just to women and African Americans but to anyone with a sense of common decency," Clear Channel Radio Chief Executive John Hogan said in a statement.
"We will not air Howard Stern on Clear Channel stations until we are assured that his show will conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting," he said.
Clear Channel has about 1,200 stations in the United States though it was not immediately clear how many aired his show.
Stern's show is syndicated by a unit of Viacom Inc.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: Indy Pendance
ok what was the incident?
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:38:33 PM PST
by
isom35
To: Indy Pendance
And so it begins...
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:38:42 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
To: Indy Pendance
Man i wish i had bet on that one.
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:38:59 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(you win wars by making the other dumb SOB die for his country)
To: Indy Pendance
Sounds as though Pig Vomit is on the case.
BTW, what did he do?
To: Indy Pendance
This is ridiculous.
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:39:16 PM PST
by
RWR8189
(Its Morning in America Again!)
To: Indy Pendance
Good riddance.
Thanks to Janet Jackson's boob we are turning the tide of filth back on the perpetrators.
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:39:36 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: Indy Pendance
This post is offensive! Remove it! /sarcasm offie
To: Indy Pendance
I can hear the cries of CENSORSHIP now!
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:39:37 PM PST
by
ShandaLear
(There's no business like show business...with the exception of politics.)
To: Indy Pendance
I wonder if K Rock in NYC is clear channel. Don't they own everything now?
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:40:19 PM PST
by
Huck
(OK. I'm over it.)
To: All
His show is funny and entertaining, and if people can't get past that, they shouldn't ruin it for the rest of us.
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:41:14 PM PST
by
RWR8189
(Its Morning in America Again!)
To: Indy Pendance
I'm on Howard's side.
Not the censor's side.
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:41:40 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Old Sarge
"And so it begins..."
...the beginning of a return to some semblence of decency in America.
It's about time.
To: OldFriend
Good for them!
Everything he does is vulgar and offensive...
..but he gets away with it...
..until now!
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:42:30 PM PST
by
Guenevere
(..., .Press on toward the goal!)
To: Old Sarge
First they came for the lesbian strippers, but I wasn't a lesbian stripper . . .
To: Old Sarge
So who's next? Savage?
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:42:48 PM PST
by
GSWarrior
(If Debbie Schlussel wed John Stossel she'd be Debbie Schlussel-Stossel.)
To: Indy Pendance
Errr so what was the big deal here?
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:42:53 PM PST
by
Tempest
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">)
To: Indy Pendance
It must have been a HUGE boo-boo to yank Howard.
BA-BA BOOIE!
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:43:11 PM PST
by
JOE6PAK
("The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein)
To: Indy Pendance
Good for Clear Channel for sticking to the directive they made regarding content coming from their stations.
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:43:37 PM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay the MSA - smokers do!)
To: JOE6PAK
Stuttering John got out just in time...
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:43:57 PM PST
by
ambrose
("John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" - Lt. Col. Oliver North)
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