Shock Jock Stern Crosses Swords with FCC's Powell

yahoo.com ^ | October 26, 2004 | Jeremy Pelofsky

[atomicpossum]

Can somebody just flush Stern, please?

[beansox]

stern suffers from penus envy. always has.

[dead]

"It is apparent to most of us in broadcasting that your father got you your job," said Stern

Can't find anything to disagree with in that statement.

[Semper Paratus]

Good. Let the FCC take Stern flak instead of the President.

[Blessed]

Sterns and Owens - 2 tired old radio jocks who haven't had a fresh idea in 20 years.

[Reagan Man]

Is that anything like penis envy? ;^)

[beansox]

its real close to that...:)

[dead]

I have no idea who Owens is, but Stern, new ideas or not, currently has the highest ratings of his career.

[yoe]

Howard Stern crosses the line of impropriety in anyone's book, often enough that he is branded for bad taste. The FCC is just doing their job; they should do it more often as in the Sinclair Group's harassment from the left...in Stern’s case, freedom of speech carries with it responsibility and in Sinclair’s case threatened harm, be it financial or bodily, the FCC should have stepped in for Freedom of Speech and truth.

[Mister Baredog]

An obvious "dirty trick" by the radio station. Larry King did this to GHW Bush on a call in show when they put G Stephanopolis(he was working for Clintoon's election at the time) through as a caller, Bush was outrage and justifiably so, that was also a "dirty trick".

[Blessed]

No one ever said their is not a market for filth but that doesn't make it new or creative.In fact just the opposite.Ron Owens was one of the origional dumb liberals in talk radio in the late 60's.Moved to the West Coast in mid 70"s.( only place he could survive on radio)

[perfect stranger]

"It is apparent to most of us in broadcasting that your father got you your job," said Stern

It's not accurate to say it's actually true, but it's apparent.

Another Freeper said that moving to a subscription based network will be his downfall, simply because there is no envelope to push where he's going and that's all he does. He was fined far more in the 90's by the previous admin.

[AmishDude]

The two jousted for more than 10 minutes. The FCC chief initially resisted taking calls from audience listeners but relented and Stern pounced after getting word of the show.

BS, the producers called Stern. This is like when GHWBush was on Larry King and Dem operatives just happened to get on the line. Who was it, Stephanopolous?

[AmishDude]

Wow! I thought I was the only one with a 12-year memory.

[databoss]

His move to satellite is an act of self flushing!!!Good riddance...

[wireman]

If anyone here says Michael Powell didn't get his job because of his father, they're lying to themselves!

Let's be real here. Nepotism is alive and well in Washington D.C.

[Extremist]

Stern is like a soap opera. You can tune out for ten years and return to find some characters are new but the storyline is basically the same. He ran out of material many years ago. He survives because every year a new bunch of horny adolescents tune in just as the thirty somethings outgrow him. The material, however tired, is new to his "fluid" audience. BUT, I think he's getting too old to come off as cool to these young perverts much longer and will soon fade into oblivion where he belongs.

[perfect stranger]

This case is a fine call for it, but the younger Powell has a fine education as a lawyer and has been in various different places in our government for the last almost 20 years since he graduated in '85, and he has certainly earned much of his own merit.