The Daily Stern: Updates
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: FINES: Broadcasting & Cable says more FCC fines are on the way:
Howard Stern is about to get fined again, and possibly again and again.
Infinity Radio will be socked in the next week by the FCC with a six-figure fine for raunchy programming by top shock-jock Howard Stern. But that’s not all. Tthe government’s indecency police are moving to punish more shows by the self-proclaimed “King of All Media.”
The FCC is putting finishing touches on a proposed sanction that, for the first time, will fine a station for each indecent “utterance” during a single program. Previously, the FCC levied just one fine no matter how many times a program crossed the line.
: PUTTING WORDS IN POWELL’S MOUTH: Ernie Miller rewrites FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s speech before the National Association of Broadcasters:
While the broadcast medium does not today enjoy the full breadth of the First Amendment privilege, we should never be comfortable with content intrusion by the government.
Ernie even has Powell suggest a solution.
: VACATION: Howard’s on vacation.
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