"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.

I'm not the biggest Howard Stern fan, but that's beside the point. What gets me is this... Nobody has done more to dumbify radio than the corrupt monopoly known as Clear Channel. They are the reason that radio stations everywhere in the U.S. adhere to the same small playlists, and they protect thier stranglehold on the medium by ensuring that FCC comissioners are well plied with junkets to industry pow-wows in exotic locations. So when the CEO tells me what constitutes a "common sense of decency" and "responsible broadcasting", I feel like I've stepped through the looking glass into some surreal bizarro-world where up is down and red is green. I find it strange and frightening here. If someone could just point the way back to the real world I'd be much obliged.

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Nobody has done more to dumbify radio than the corrupt monopoly known as Clear Channel.

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wow thats only the 400th time howard stern has heard that stuff

Except he hasn't been yanked off that many major markets since....ever.

i'm glad to see the controversial radio star spotlight is back on howard stern. rush limbaugh went and screwed the whole thing up.

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So when the CEO tells me what constitutes a "common sense of decency" and "responsible broadcasting", I feel like I've stepped through the looking glass into some surreal bizarro-world where up is down and red is green....

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Who exactly is defining "common sense of decency" here?

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and enough people listened to him to keep him on air. What's he done now to get him dropped?

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I live in San Diego, which is one of the markets he was dropped in...I listened to him everyday and now I'm pissed that he's gone.

So Clear Channel is all about decency now? Check out the website of the local station that dropped him... www.kioz.com Sure looks like wholesome entertainment to me.

I will be the first to turn the station off when I hear Howard Stern on it. I find him offensive, redundant, and immature. However, the fact that this ban is happening with him in the crosshairs makes me support what he does more than I already did.

Free speech used to mean something. If people like Tipper and her band of merry housewives with nothing better to do don't like it, there is a simple solution for them. Don't listen.

Side note:

Anyone notice an influx of new donors? And that they all suck?

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Anyone notice an influx of new donors? And that they all suck?

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There have been a lot of sucky donors recently, but there have been some real funny-bastard new donors too. And boinky.

Boinky, I've always considered you a donor. Without paying a dime, you single-handedly upped the funny quotient of this site about 80%. I wasn't talking about you. Actually, or graykane for that matter. Graykane, I don't think you're hysterical, but you're definitely a cut above a lot of new donors lately.

Oh, okay.

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Graykane, I don't think you're hysterical, but you're definitely a cut above a lot of new donors lately.

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Can someone tell me what the cunt he did anyway?