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| Morality in Media comments on FCC's Policy Statement on Broadcast Indecency |
| NEW YORK (9 April 2001) - The Federal Communications Commission issued a Policy Statement on Friday 6 April (FCC 01-90) on "Enforcement Policies Regarding Broadcast Indecency." Morality in Media president Robert Peters had the following comments:
"As Commissioner Gloria Tristani points out in her dissent, the problem with the broadcast indecency law is not the alleged vagueness of the indecency definition. The problem is 'lax enforcement.' "One reason enforcement is 'lax' is because the Commission refuses to lift a regulatory finger until a complainant provides the Commission with a tape or transcript of the offending program. Since listeners and viewers usually have no advance warning about indecent content, tapes or transcripts are usually unavailable.
"Thus, while the Commission monitors TV programming to ensure compliance with laws regulating children's programming, it refuses to monitor the programs of radio shock jocks which have generated hundreds of indecency complaints. At the FCC, too many breakfast commercials for kids are a serious matter - but nonstop vulgarity and sex talk for breakfast, lunch and dinner are not.
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| A farcical, toothless FCC -- Here's Stern's read on the FCC |
STERN ON FCC REMOVING FINES AGAINST HIM - FEBRUARY 7, 2001
Stern: I was just reading in the paper that the FCC did something about us, but I can't figure out what they did. I've got to go back and read that again. It looked like something good,
Robin: Are we still on the air?
Stern: But then it looked like something bad. I don't know. It looked like, I don't know, here, I'll read this to you. "FCC drops old Stern fines." Old Stern. Who you calling old, Mother F-er? 'The new FCC cleaned up some old business Monday (some old business) wiping a couple of years old Howard Stern indecency fines off the books.' That sounds good to me.
Robin: We had some more?
Stern: Who knows. 'In 1997 the FCC filed a $6,000 notice of apparent liability. The equivalent of a charge against WXRK - New York, over Stern's broadcast in October 1995 and March and June 1996.' ...
The case was never heard, although stations in New Orleans and Richmond were fined for the same broadcast. So the FCC Monday rescinded the WXRK order while adding that our decision today in no way condones the broadcasts of the material at issue.'
Robin: Nobody asked for your approval.
Stern: I don't have to give the approval, I think that's pretty .. 'At one time Stern had run up a tab of $1.7 million in notices of apparent liability which Infinity Broadcasting wiped out with a donation to the Commission in that precise amount.' You remember all that.
Robin: Yeah, but a donation.
Stern: Yeah, which was basically we paid it.
Robin: A donation.
Stern: Yeah. Semantics.
Robin: You'd never heard from us if you hadn't been fining us.
Stern: Yeah. Donation. A wink-wink deal. Yeah, who cares. What am I going to do. You gonna, they're sitting and fining me the country's doing all kinds of wacked out broadcasts and they're fining me. I love it. But, hey, this new FCC is saying 'hey wait a second, we're not'... Maybe they're doing what George Bush is saying.
Robin: I hope.
Stern: Yeah, maybe this George Bush ain't gonna be so bad.
Robin: Let him get the church involved with government just as long as he gets off our backs.
Stern: Yeah, get off my a-- and I'll love you to death. I'll talk you up all day and night and I'll make sure you win the next election. Gore won the last one, I'll make sure you win this one. |
| Decency is an enemy to Stern |
One reason ADA dedicates a fair portion of its efforts to writing letters to advertisers of the Howard Stern Show is because the FCC sadly doesn't fulfill its high appointed role of being the guardian of America's airwaves. The lawless ones of our age rejoice.
Many reading this web page are gleeful over unenforcement. More sexual images. Entertainment that touches their titillation buttons. It pleases them. The culture erodes. Sex becomes king. Faithfulness, decency, integrity - these mean little. Stern is a great contributor to the backhanding of decency. Robin laughs at the dirty, the disgusting, the erosion of social mores - "Ha.Ha.Ha.Ha", goes Robin. How much money does she receive for her inane ha, ha, ha, ha's?
Decency is a joke to Stern. Decency is an enemy to Stern. Stern is so morally dumbed down that he is unable to comprehend that his failed marriage is a result of immorality.
Stern has his millions of dollars and his foolish fans but he has lost his conscience. His
"entertainment" contributes to untold numbers of others losing their sense of honor, goodness,
faithfulness, decency.
And, America has no gatekeeper to guard the airwaves from Stern's daily damage of his toxic trash. |
| Propaganda for every perversion and obscenity imaginable. |
And as the supposed watchdog of America's airwaves becomes increasingly toothless,
this is what societal barbarians do:
FEBRUARY 7, 2001
.... Stern: Alright, in that case, let me just say 'vagina'. (Cheers, laughter, and applause). 'Penial. Penial erecti'. Go ahead baby. Robin: So there you go. Some decent news out of Washington. Stern: Yeah! More dirt and filth! Yeah, baby! Robin: Well, we have freedom of the speech. Let us have it. Stern: Excuse me, I've got to say something, Robin. Balls." ...
Stern: Hey, what's in the news, Robin?
Robin: A couple of things. First of all, maybe some good news out of the FCC. You were reading a little something today about them forgiving some fines. Well, it also says in this little print out I got. Do you know who the new head of the FCC is?
Stern: Yes! Colin Powell's son.
Robin: William. That's right.
Stern: Well, so far so good. (Sound of trumpet).
Robin: And, uh, you know he's gonna do a lot of things, but it seems that there is going to be a change of policy and he will get to name a lot of new commissioners to the FCC because a bunch of people are leaving. And he says while his predecessors, in this article anyway, it says 'while his predecessors have used the bully pulpit of the chairman's office to be critical of some material shown on television, Mr.Powell says that the FCC basically had no official role to play in controlling violence or other content or in seeking legislation that would require broadcasters to provide free air time to political candidates'.
Stern: Maybe this guy's got his head on straight. It sounds pretty promising. Evidently, I read in the paper today, that they removed the fines against me. (Sounds of applause.)
Robin: Yeah, he says 'I think there's a lot of garbage on television, there are a lot of things children should not watch, but I don't believe that government should be your nanny'.
Stern: Nice statement!
Robin: Hey nanny, nanny!
Stern: Alright, in that case, let me just say 'vagina'. (Cheers, laughter, and applause). 'Penial. Penial erecti'. Go ahead baby. Robin: So there you go. Some decent news out of Washington.
Stern: Yeah! More dirt and filth! Yeah, baby!
Robin: Well, we have freedom of the speech. Let us have it.
Stern: Excuse me, I've got to say something, Robin. Balls.
Robin: You know it could signal the end of Andre (the Stern Show's
censor). I mean if they really ...
Stern: Yeah, Andre will be out of work. Thank God. Soon you won't have
to hit the button. You might get a real job.
Robin: Go listen to something else. |
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