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Edited on Thu Feb-26-04 01:03 AM by calimary
You have this Prissy crap starting in the media now, what with the same-sex marriage debate and the hoo-hah over the Mel Gibson movie, close on the heels of the Janet-and-Justin show at the Super Bowl, and now, Howard Stern. Plus, the FCC's still got ants in its pants left over from the huge public outcry over its further media deregulation. So everybody's self-conscious about it, just on general principles.
So, rather than keep beating a dead horse (the gay marriage stuff is So Yesterday) and looking for react, fifteen generations down, they can keep the general media issues on the front burner thanks to Howard. He's this day's flavor. And, by default, so was I.
Besides, they called from NYC where it was about 11pm, and they were probably hurting for fresh sound for the overnight shift, and my friend who's a fill-in anchor there happened to be on duty, and evidently suggested calling me on the West Coast where it's still relatively early. Just another way to work the story, with some fresh soundbites. Probably with all the shelf-life of your average thread here in the GD forum...
Oh yeah, and the Clear Channel guy, John Hogan I think is his name, is scheduled to testify tomorrow. Probably wanted to march in there looking like a guy in charge, who's "done something" about all the smut out there.
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