Viacom deep throat, please
: Howard Stern said this morning that everyone on his show had received a 56-page memo outlining what can’t be said on Viacom in the wake of the company’s ridiculous consent decree signed with the FCC, which requires this memo and training in indecency for employees, who also received an email quiz on do’s and don’t’s.
Hello Viacom employees: Will one of you please send me the memo and the quiz? I won’t reveal your identity, even if the FCC puts me in thumbscrews and makes me watch Pat Robertson. Email me, please.
Here’s a CNN story on the memo.
But in two live broadcasts since returning Jan. 3 from a two-week vacation, Stern has been just as feisty as before. In addition to the employee quiz, he detailed a company description of the words and sounds that might run afoul of FCC rules. Stern said possible profanity includes ‘go to hell,’ ‘goddamn you,’ and any “personally reviling epithets.”
As for sounds, Stern said banned intonations include flatulence and heavy breathing. His staff then played a few examples….
Stern’s overall take on the matter? “I would so love to be thrown off the air for saying ‘go to hell,'” he told listeners.
