HOWARD STERN VOWS TO BE FILTHIER THAN EVER ON SATELLITE RADIO
HOWARD STERN VOWS TO BE FILTHIER THAN EVER ON SATELLITE RADIO
But the man drove who led the successful fight to drive Stern off Satellite Radio now aims to oust Stern from Satellite Radio. Stern’s show is set to debut Jan. 9, 2006.
While Howard Stern is busy doing interviews with Today Show, boasting to Katie Couric how much filthier his show will be on Sirius satellite radio, Consumer Advocate/Attorney Jack Thompson is busy waging a PR offensive to oust Stern from satellite radio.
Attorney Thompson’s relentless actions against Stern resulted in Howard Stern being force off of terrestrial radio and on to satellite radio.
But “pit bull” Thompson is not satisfied with the “king of filth” being relegated to satellite radio. So, Jack Thompson is conducting a Talk Radio campaign of his own to, once and for all, to “rid America of the scourge of Howard Stern.”
During your talk show interview, Jack will give a clarion call to Americans to call their Congressmen and the FCC to expand FCC oversight authority to satellite radio.
Recently FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said it might be high time for Congress to empower the FCC to regulate satellite radio. President Bush is poised to replace two FCC Commissioners, and one more who agrees with the Chairman will tip the balance in favor of cleaning up terrestrial broadcasts.
Is Jack Thompson serious? Dead “Sirius”.
Jack’s new book Out of Harm's Way recounts his past successes against Stern and in other "culture war" battles.
The following NY Post article may be helpful in show preparation:
Stern Reveals Plan to Be Filthier Than Ever
New York Post, Monday, December 05, 2005
By Bill Hoffmann
Howard Stern has crowed for months about how he'll get as filthy as humanly possible when he jumps to censorship-free Sirius Satellite Radio next month — and now he's revealing for the first time, in a New York magazine interview, just how X-rated his new show will be.
In an expletive-filled interview that hits newsstands Monday, the sex-obsessed shock jock tells of five new jaw-dropping features that are sure to push the boundaries of bad taste.
The idea behind the filthy five ideas, Stern says, is to gratify his listeners.
"Wouldn't it be brilliant if my audience could all lie down at night together and [achieve orgasm] together?" he asks.
To that end, Stern plans to offer up one regular segment called "Confessions from the Bunny Ranch," in which he plans to wire a room at the famed Nevada home of legal prostitution for sound.
"You'll be right in the prostitute's room. You'll hear the negotiation ... You'll hear the after-sex conversation," Stern tells New York.
He's also working on a sex-drenched send-up of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," in which contestants get to have sex with an adult film star if they pass a quiz.
"It's going to be difficult," Stern cautions.
Stern will also feature appearances by a 24-year-old Playboy model who will offer phone sex to his audience.
For years, he presented the "Lesbian Dating Game," in which a gay woman got to take her pick of three hot women. But the segment was dropped after the FCC began its crackdown on "indecent" and "obscene" material. Now it's coming back.
"I'm going to give you real action," Stern says.
Stern is also getting ready to send up "The View," which he's ranked on for years, using four crack-addicted prostitutes.
"Every night we're going to take the exact topics that 'The View' talked about," the shaggy-haired gabber says. "It will be 10 times better."
HOWARD STERN’S WORST NIGHTMARE:
JACK THOMPSON, EXPERT/AUTHOR/TALK SHOW GUEST
For some reason, Jack Thompson, activist and lawyer, is the "bad guy". It is he who is the “lunatic.” It is he, just to keep his law license in Florida, who was forced to be tested by psychologists to be deemed “certifiably sane.”
While he says he wouldn’t wish his unlikely, not-always-likeable hero status on anyone, Thompson’s relentless fight to clean up the entertainment industry has some of the mightiest media Goliaths on the run.
“This Lunatic Lawyer in Miami” – Howard Stern
Last year, Thompson took on shock jock Howard Stern and sent him packing for satellite radio. The author’s legal complaint to the FCC resulted in the agency fining Clear Channel $495,000. Ultimately, Clear Channel decided to pull Stern from the air. Stern’s subsequent flight to satellite radio was triggered by Thompson’s continued guerrilla tactics.
2 Live Crew Suit
It was Thompson, in 1989, who had the courage to face 2 Live Crew in court and win the first-ever verdict labeling a sound recording as obscene. He made the argument that “Parental Advisory” stickers placed on the album, As Nasty as They Wanna Be, did not adequately warn listeners of what was inside the case. Thompson met with Florida Governor Bob Martinez and convinced him to see if it met the legal classification of “obscene.”
Oliver North’s Freedom Alliance
In 1992, Thompson represented Oliver North’s Freedom Alliance at the annual Time Warner shareholders’ meeting, regarding rapper Ice T’s song Cop Killer. He argued that should the song lead listeners to kill police officers that widows should be able to sue Time Warner over the content of the record. Time Warner subsequently pulled the song from store shelves worldwide.
Columbine Shootings
After learning about the deadly effects of violent video games on adolescents, Thompson predicted on NBC’s Today that a Columbine-line event would happen very soon. The Columbine event took place less than a month later.
An absorbing memoir of an improbable hero, Out of Harm’s Way chronicles Jack Thompson’s spiritual, intellectual, and moral journey to becoming one of America’s most visible opponents of violence and obscenity in entertainment.
A graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of Al Gore, Jack Thompson is a former “hands-off-business libertarian” and “First Amendment absolutist” who subsequently became convinced that the entertainment industry must be forced into taking responsibility for the brain-altering and deadly results of the violence and indecency it is spewing into millions of homes, families, and minds. An attorney specializing in litigation against the entertainment industry since 1987, he has been interviewed for hundreds of radio and TV programs about the link between violent video games and teen violence. A frequent speaker on college campuses, Thompson lives with his family in Florida, where he is a lay leader in his Presbyterian church.
ABOUT JACK THOMPSON…
A 1976 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of Al Gore, Jack Thompson is a former “hands-off-business libertarian” and “First Amendment absolutist” who subsequently became convinced that the entertainment industry must be forced into taking responsibility for the brain-altering and deadly results of the violence and indecency it is spewing into millions of homes, families, and minds.
An attorney specializing in litigation against the entertainment industry since 1987, he has been interviewed for hundreds of radio and TV programs about the link between violent video games and teen violence. His legal successes include: securing the first FCC decency fines (1989); securing the first verdict that a sound recording is obscene (2 Live Crew case in 1990); forced Time Warner to pull rapper Ice-T’s “Cop Killer” from store shelves worldwide (1992); and received ACLU’s “Top Ten Censors of the Year Award” (1992).
Recently, Thompson has represented parents of three girls shot at a school in Paducah, Ky., by a 14-year-old video gamer. He also got shock jock Howard Stern kicked off all Clear Channel radio stations and Clear Channel fined $495,000 for illegal indecent broadcasts. He also successfully predicted a “Columbine-type” incident on national television one week before it occurred, and he also predicted that the DC Beltway Sniper triggerman would be “trained on a sniper video game.”
A frequent speaker on college campuses, Thompson lives with his family in south Florida where he is a lay leader in his Presbyterian church.
Suggested Interview Questions for Jack Thompson, author of “Out of Harm’s Way”:
* What is the problem with Howard Stern doing what he does on the air?
* Is it all just about the money with these people, or is there something else that motivates them as well?
* Has the FCC singled out Howard Stern? Are they picking on him unfairly?
* How will Stern do on satellite radio and is there anything that can be done to get him off?
* What will Stern be doing 10 years from now?
* Isn’t it solely a parent’s responsibility to keep his/her child away from Stern’s program?
* Doesn’t the First Amendment protect what anyone wants to put on the public airwaves?
* Aren’t you putting us on a “slippery slope” of censorship? Where does it end?
* What would you like to have happen to Howard Stern?
* Has Howard Stern really affected America in any fashion, for good or ill?
To schedule an interview with JACK THOMPSON, call: 630-848-0750.