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You took the words right out of my mouth. I think Howard Stern is repulsive too but the Catholic Church really needs to get their own house in order before they waste time going after washed-up shock-jocks doing shows on a dying television network that is rapidly becoming irrelevant. I'm not a Catholic basher but the practice of shuffling pedophiles around different parishes in the hopes that the problem would just "go away" is just inexcusable and reprehensible. The Catholic Church has zero moral authority until they clean the mess up (and the heads of a few cardinals and bishops roll).

Getting back to ABC and Howard, this is the act of a dying network. Nobody under the age of 35 bothers with network television anymore and the attempt to hire Howard Stern is a desperate gambit to bring some of that younger audience back into the fold. It remains to be seen whether it works or not but in a few years, the television networks are going to be indiscernible from other channels in the cable wasteland like MTV, A&E, and Nickelodeon.

I predict that in five years, there will be no more nightly network news broadcasts. Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw. FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC is where the vast majority of TV viewers go for their news today and the major networks will soon have no choice but to ditch their costly and unprofitable news shows and switch to syndicated programming instead - if they survive at all.