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| Howard Stern fans: Good, ole healthy fun, eh? |
April 26, 1999
Stern: What are we going to do with this girl tomorrow? Have her drink from a dog bowl? Put mayonnaise on her EXPLETIVE and throw baloney peels at it. We'll definitely do that.
Robin: No fish this time? Ha. Ha.
Stern: Beat her with a fish
Robin: You might as well bring back the fish
Stern: I'd like to do everything to her. Just beat her with fish. Throw baloney on her.
Robin: Poke her with sticks.
Stern: Let's poke her with sticks... |
| A War Brewing |
When the FCC brought a fine against Clear Channel for $495,000, Clear Channel COO John Hogan complied. In fact, Clear removed Howard Stern from the six Clear stations that carried Stern to protect themselves from the possibility of further indecency fines. further indecency fines.
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| Infinity responds to FCC Fine Over Stern Show |
| ... As R&R reported in March, WKRK, an Infinity station, was cited for the apparently willful broadcast of material in which the Howard Stern show's cast discussed sexual practices and techniques. Infinity argues that the material was not indecent. niques. |
| WXRK, New York City - list of Howard Stern radio show advertisers |
ADVERTISERSOF THE HOWARD STERN RADIO SHOW for April 6-9 (a shortened list of larger corporations.
Express your concerns:
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| Viacom's Mel Karmazin. Nothing to worry about? |
"...But now, with the indecency debate moving back to Viacom, Karmazin must consider whether he is willing to pay fines far larger than anything paid in the past, knowing furhter that Howard Stern will use the attention to intensify his offending commentary. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Karmazin dismissed as largely ridiculous the furor over indeceny..."
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| CEO John Hogan |
| CEO John Hogan, "Mr. Stern's show has created great liablility for us and other broadcasters who air it. The Congress and FCC are even beginning to look at revoking station licenses. That's a risk we're just not willing to take." |
| FCC Fines Clear Channel $495,000 for Stern |
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| Howard Stern Comments on FCC |
| "In fact, I've never paid a fine. Go back and check the FCC records. They've given me Notices of Apparent Liability, but I've never paid a fine, nor will I ever." |
| Avoid Viacom and its subsidiaries |
Mel Karmazin and Sumner Redstone are the men overseeing and leading CBS, MTV, Infinity Broadcasting, Spike TV, Comedy Central, and Showtime.
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| The FCC begins to exert some authority |
| American airwaves have become increasingly filled with images, language, and themes that are disgusting, degrading, and that impact the quality of life and erod the moral fiber of America. The Goverment agency primarily responsible for allowing this to happen is the FCC. In recent weeks, however, there have been a number of encouraging actions. Here is a short list. |
| If Stern has his way ... |
February 9, 1998
Stern: I like to conquer. If my woman doesn't walk out of the room unable to walk, then I know I have not done a good job. I like a crippled woman. I like her wheeled out in a wheel chair. My women crawl away from me. I'm into rough sex. I like to grab you by the hair and throw you out the window ... Let's play some games, G- d- it.
March 12, 1998 [from the Howard Stern radio show]
Stern: Take off your dress so I can see your panties ... Do you want to take off your bra for the spanking? Take it off, you whore. Take it off, you filthy slut. Look at those - very perky. Come over here .. I'm gonna give you a name. Your name is Rover because you are a bad dog. Let me hear you bark. (He asks her questions, then spanks her when she gives the wrong answer.) |
| What is indecency? Stern fans: What about this? |
STERN DISCUSSING THE KILLINGS AT
COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL
Howard Stern Radio Show, April 21, 1999
Stern: Did those kids try to have sex with any of the good looking girls? They didn't even do that.
At least if you're going go kill yourself and go kill all the kids, why wouldn't you have some sex?
John: Yeah, I would think I would want some sex if I was going to kill somebody.
Stern: Yeah, If I was going to kill some people I'd take them out with some sex.
Robin: I guess they were getting a rush from what they were doing.
Stern: They said, like, these guys were really against the good looking girls, 'cause the good looking girls wouldn't pay attention to them. And like the good looking girls would be begging them to live, and they go 'you don't have to beg 'cause you're going to be dead in a minute'.
Robin: Yeah, don't cry because you're going to be dead.
Stern: Don't cry, yeah. ... |
| STERN FANS: Can't you see that Stern is just playing with you? |
Howard Stern the martyr. Howard Stern embattled. The government is after him. This could be his last day. Howard Stern the underdog? Howard Stern censored? Folks: He's an "entertainer".
Look how he gets you angry at the FCC, the government, George W. Bush.
Here's one example of many from March 2, 2004:
Stern: Well we are still standing. We are still on the air.
I had an upsetting conversation with my general manager yesterday. It's not even funny.
Robin: You mean Tom?
Stern: Yeah. ... I don't even know where to begin. I was going over the list of things that they had deleted from the show today and I blew my stack. And I called him up and I said "What are you doing?" You hit the button on something so ridiculous. And I said to him "I know you are in a tough position. I know you are in a very bad position. You've got to worry about Mel. You've got to worry about the company. You've got to worry about protecting me. "
Robin: You've got so many worries ...
Stern: I was very honest with him and I said "You are now hitting the button on things that shouldn't be censored. It ruins the show. You are overly zealous. And he even said to me "I don't want to see you get thrown off the air." And I said "I don't want to be thrown off the air either, but here's the point. If the FCC wants to get me off the air. All they have to do is trump up some sentence or take something out of context and then Mel will have to fire me. I'm not fine with being fired but I'm accepting my fate. Fire me because that way you guys don't lose your stations. That way, Tom, you don't lose your job. Nobody loses anything. This is getting [g....d...] ridiculous and so who knows. The feeling of paranoia around here is absolutely out of control. On my part as well. I must tell you I've seen the tide in this country turning toward the Taliban ever since G.W. Bush came in office. Talking about the agenda of the religious right which does not represent the majority of the people in this country. The majority of the people in this country voted for Al Gore. The majority of the people who voted for George Bush probably don't agree with the right wing religious agenda of our President's experience with Jesus since he stopped drinking and driving drunk. You know he had a whole revelation.
Robin: And you've got to question when they've been drinking all the time. ...
ADA: Stern is riding the crest of all the controversy. Think about it. How much cleaner are the airwaves? Has Stern truly cleaned up his act? Of course, right now so much time is being spent on "the controversy", "censorship",
"the enemies". But, are TV and radio airwaves cleaned up? Where are the evidences? We haven't seen evidence yet. |
| Howard Stern purposes to push indecency as far as he can. Some of you are entertained by that. The Grand Rapids Press on its editorial page stated: |
| "... There obviously is an audience for his brand of amusement -- just as, on any playground, some children will enjoy playing in the mud. But there are boundaries governing how much mud that broadcast shows are allowed to throw. The airwaves, after all, are public property. The federal government, speaking for the people of the country, has a duty to prevent their abuse where station owners, on their own, don't step up to their responsibilities.
The FCC and Congress have specific obligations now to act. It is heartening to see that Mr. Powell, Mr. Upton and numerous others in Washington are moving on this issue. Hefty fines for violators are in order; so is license suspension for repeat offenses."
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-0/107824259495990.xml |
| Stern says that ADA paid people 50 cents for every letter that people would write to Howard Stern. If you believe this, let me sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. |
FEBRUARY 27, 2004 - Stern mentions ADA
Stern: . Gary was telling me this story, one time we called someone who had written .What was that all about?
Gary: We used to get a lot of letters from the American Decency Association - like thousands of them. So one of our sales guys called one of the addresses on the letter and he said 'listen I want to talk with you. What's your problem, why are you so upset with us?' And the guy goes 'listen, here's the deal, I'm a senior citizen. I don't even know who Howard is. I get paid by the American Decency Association 50 cents for every letter I write. I'm on a fixed income. It's like 50 extra bucks for me a month to write these letters.
[Stern snickers.]
Stern: The guy doesn't even know.
Robin: Yeah he doesn't even know what he's writing about.
Artie: They give him a script and he just copies it.
Stern: So Jason Trinski said on TV yesterday, 'yeah maybe there are four thousand complaints, but'.
Robin: Well he said 'let's not pretend those complaints are all from individuals. You know that there are certain groups hat are sending out lots and lots of letters because they have issues.' |
| Though we are cautiously encouraged by recent events, a number of questions arise. |
In 1996 AFA of Michigan), began monitoring the Howard Stern radio show in Grand Rapids. It was the only location where ADA was monitoring Stern. In 1996, Howard Stern added eleven new stations.
In early 1997, we began to monitor Howard Stern in Detroit, and we added several more stations throughout the year. Howard Stern picked up 9 new stations.
In 1998, we estimate that our monitoring project reached maturity by the middle of the year monitoring 22 various cities. In 1998, Howard Stern added 12 new stations most of them by August 1998. Stern added Denver in November 1998.
In 1999, Howard Stern picked up only one station adding Atlantic City, New Jersey in November. Stern also lost a station in Minneapolis/St. Paul. In 1999, Howard Stern had a net gain of 0.
In 2000, Howard Stern added one station late in the year adding Greenville,NC (WXNR). Stern also lost 8 stations for a net loss of -7.
In 2001, Howard Stern added seven stations - Dallas(Infinity), Cincinnati(Infinity), Buffalo (Infinity), Reno, Seattle, Sacramento (Infinity), Phoenix (Infinity), Stern also lost 9 stations for a net loss of -2. At the end of the year, Stern had 41 stations remaining on his radio network.
As you can see from the projections above, through 1998, ADA was attempting to put in place a broadbased monitoring of a wide variety of radio stations that would foster a widespread contact with the vast majority of Stern’s national advertisers. By 1999, we began to see that Stern’s radio network was no longer increasing. By 2000, radio stations began dropping Stern because advertisers were shying away from Stern. |
Howard Stern Show Taken Off Clear Channel Stations
Wednesday February 25, 6:44 pm ET |
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2004--Clear Channel Radio has suspended the broadcast of Viacom's Howard Stern show, consistent with its Responsible Broadcasting Initiative announced earlier today. After assessing the content of yesterday's Howard Stern show, Clear Channel worked with local market managers to take swift and decisive action.
"Clear Channel drew a line in the sand today with regard to protecting our listeners from indecent content and Howard Stern's show blew right through it," said John Hogan, president and CEO of Clear Channel Radio. "It was vulgar, offensive, and insulting, not just to women and African Americans but to anyone with a sense of common decency. 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," Hogan said. ....
New Clear Channel Policy One Strike and you're out.
Clear Channel's new policy |
| ADA: Who is the FCC Primarily Responsible to -- American Citizens or Mega-Conglomerate Broadcasting Corporations? |
| Press Release |
| Letter to the Editor in response to Washington Times Editorial |
"...Telling the public to just "turn the dial" denies any public interest in the public airwaves and shows shocking disregard for children.
Whatever happened to the goal of establishing a family friendly culture and pushing the pornographers back to the dark edges of town where they belong? Please tell me The Times can't possibly believe that flooding the airwaves with filth will make this a better country. ..."
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| Station withdrawals -- |
WKLQ - (94.5 FM), Grand Rapids, MI, January 1, 2003
WAVF- (96.1 FM), Charleston, SC, February 22, 2002
WXNR- FM (99.5), Greenville, NC, December 17, 2001
Q107 (CILQ, 107.1 FM), Toronto, Canada, November 23, 2001
KEDJ-FM (106.3) and KDDJ-FM (100.3), Phoenix, AZ, October 31, 2001
WYAV, Myrtle Beach, SC, September 24, 2001
WXBE, Hazleton, PA September 21, 2001
WXAR, Olyphant, PA, September 21, 2001
WYYX, Panama City, FL, September 6, 2001
KFRR, Fresno, CA, April 24, 2001
WXRC, Charlotte, NC, April 30, 2001
KRZQ, Reno, NV, March 16, 2001
WIHN, Bloomington/Normal, IL (October 13, 2000)|
WKSO, Peoria, IL, October 13, 2000
KJFK, Austin, TX, September 11, 2000
KXPK, Denver, CO, September 6, 2000
WNAP, Indianapolis, IN, March 25, 2000
KORB, Quad Cities, IA, February 16, 2000
WRCQ, Fayetteville, NC, January 18, 2000
WBUZ, Toledo, OH, January 3, 2000
KKND, New Orleans, LA, December 17, 1999
WRQC, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, August 1, 1999 |
| A few facts about ADA |
ADA first began as a local anti-pornography organization in 1985. It was called Citizens Against Pornography.
In 1986, the fledgling organization affiliated with the National Federation for Decency as a local chapter. It's name: Newaygo County National Federation for Decency.
In 1987, due to the success of the local chapter, Bill Johnson, was named the first state director for President Donald E. Wildmon and his National Federation for Decency. Our name became the National Federation for Decency of Michigan.
In 1988, the National Federation for Decency changed its name to the American Family Association. We became the American Family Association of Michigan.
In 1999, American Decency Association became an independent entity
desiring to be singularly focused on decency concerns and promoting the pursuit of personal holiness. The American Family Association of Michigan continued under new leadership.
American Decency Association supports the work of other pro-decency organizations through prayer, friendships, and shared concerns and efforts.
American Decency Association has actively monitored the Howard Stern Show since Stern's filthfest invaded our local area waves in the Grand Rapids area in April 1996. Over 15,000 advertisers (nationwide) that once advertised on Stern's radio show no longer do. ADA's monitoring and letter writing campaign is only one aspect of our work.
See www.americandecency.org |
| DR. VICTOR CLINE COMMENTS |
Dr. Victor B. Cline is presently a psychotherapist specializing in
family/marital counseling and sexual addictions. He is also Professor
Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Utah. Dr. Cline states
the following: "As a clinical psychologist, I have treated, over the
years, approximately 350 sex addicts, sex offenders, or other individuals
(96% male) with sexual illnesses. This includes many types of unwanted
compulsive sexual acting-out, plus such things as child molestation,
exhibitionism, voyeurism, sadomasochism, fetishism, and rape. With several
exceptions, pornography has been a major or minor contributor or
facilitator in the acquisition of their deviation or sexual addiction."
In Dr. Cline's writings, he reports that he typically sees the
following 4 step process as an individual becomes a user of pornography.
(1) Addiction, (2) escalation, (3)desensitization, (4) acting out sexually
http://www.moralityinmedia.org/clinepage.htm |
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